smith
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Registered: January 1970
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I just read the headlines on my homepage MSN and one of the blurbs says: What High School Kids Want! Cutting Edge PCs !!
As I sit here, typing on my "cutting edge" Dell monster, trying to decide if I want a new desktop, a laptop or a notebook this year, I have to wonder about all those High School Kids out there who WANT new sneakers, food, a place to live, someone to care about them and don't give a rat's ass about the cutting edge computers.
My Trig teacher told us that for easiest work loads this year, he recommended the Texas Instruments TI 83 Graphing Calculator. It's only $99.99. Only !!
I'm being sarcastic, I hope you can tell. What about all the bright kids who have nothing? I can do my Calculus HW in a few minutes and they suffer forever because they don't have that magic calculator??? [I don't have one, by the way...mine's a WalMart special........does just fine $9.99]
Everything seems to be based on what we HAVE, rather than what we ARE. I tutor kids who can't read....17 year old kids who cannot read. Did you know that the newspaper you read is written on a third grade level? Did any of these kids have a $1,249 Dell notebook? It might not have mattered but perhaps it added to their feeling of self-worth.
Some really potentially great people are going to be left out, their futures already in stone because they haven't got the right tools to carve out a different one. I know the old saying: "Lead, follow or get out of the way". It's on a poster in my Math lab. Great sentiment for kids, huh?
just saying~
smith
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