free pc / laptop for children must be eligible

What a waste of money, there's other ways around this than simply giving the laptops away for free and hope the poor familys make their kids use laptops for school work properly. They don't "need" laptops at all, whats so hard about using the PCs at school, printing off essential stuff and finish at home on paper?

Absolute waste money could be so much better spent.
 
I worked in a school about 4 years ago, and it was actually scary:

a) How much the teachers depended on computers to provide content for lessons.
b) How much time the kids peed up the wall in these lessons.

I dread to think what school will be late by the time my girls get there.
 
vonhelmet I completely agree - worked in schools for 10 years, saw some teachers rarely doing anything other than playing Shrek to classes. Plenty of teachers were great with the equipment though, especially smartboards but there's always a few that abuse it and use it for lazy teaching.

Still I doubt these laptops will help many, they'll end up being used for WoW, parents using them or broken within a few weeks.
 
[TW]Fox;15720363 said:
Go and buy him one then.
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This is my point, you can pick up a second hand machine capable of word processing and browsing the internet for £50 there are ten of them in the local paper every month.

If its sooooo important then parents should already have them, I mean what else have they purchased with £50 this last month?
 
anticonscience said:
As said in the SC thread, I think it's a wonderful idea to give poor people access to the internet, I can only imagine how this move may aid piracy, but hey the government are going to cut people off....oh wait.
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poor people ?, more like lazy spongers

makes me sick to the stomach, what a waste of my hard earned taxes!!!!
 
Thats a shame, 3 years younger and I could qualify. Part of me is saying that I should really work for a laptop, Pay for it myself. But then the other half of me knows that I would just take it.

£500 For a laptop? That could get you a bloody good spec laptop!
 
a lot of these laptops etc are just going to be used by the parents for their own means. Some will be used for the purpose granted. I just can't get past the idea that a load just aint.
 
BluZiff said:
This is my point, you can pick up a second hand machine capable of word processing and browsing the internet for £50 there are ten of them in the local paper every month.

If its sooooo important then parents should already have them, I mean what else have they purchased with £50 this last month?
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Exactly people can't give old machines away these days. I worked with my old college kitting out with new Dell machines the sheer amount that was skipped was heartbreaking but they couldnt be given away so had to happen
 
Its a decent enough idea, but the value is a little high.

Pushing it through the high street seems to be a total waste.

If the government purchased say 100k basic laptops direct they would get a decent deal, for less then half the cost.
 
You'd like to think that with the scheme having approved retailers that there would be some kick back - to the tax payer and not Brown's soon to be needed retirement villa.

To all the detractor's above, i won't quote, this is a great idea. You can't blame kids for there parents, these kids will hopefully be motivated/supported to do more with there lives and enrich the UK for all of us.
 
Klo said:
Waste of taxpayers money in my opinion, computers are not essential items, merely luxury items so they shouldn't be paid for by the Government. Most schools and libraries offer free computer access so children can do school work on them if they need to.

I imagine the vast majority of people who get these will just use them for facebook and msn etc.
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Wow that is a bit condescending to say they will just use them for facebook or MSN etc. Also it is a bit harsh on kids whose parents cannot afford to get them a PC/laptop and internet access to say just go your local libary and use a computer. Where I live the nearest libary is far from local.
 
capriboy1978 said:
To all the detractor's above, i won't quote, this is a great idea. You can't blame kids for there parents, these kids will hopefully be motivated/supported to do more with there lives and enrich the UK for all of us.
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Giving kids/parents a free laptop is not a way to motivate them, it's a way to show them that the state will look after them if they don't want to pay their way.
 
Klo said:
Waste of taxpayers money in my opinion, computers are not essential items, merely luxury items so they shouldn't be paid for by the Government. Most schools and libraries offer free computer access so children can do school work on them if they need to.

I imagine the vast majority of people who get these will just use them for facebook and msn etc.
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id rather the kids got these than them shell out on netbooks at retail price.

Mums old school shelled out on asus e701s when they were at their popularity peak, for all kids and staff.. most of the kids' parents inevitably sold them for smack, if the kids didnt for drink etc. scummy scummy school.
Im sure the internet access in classrooms, IT suites and libraries are there for the kids without it at home. stupid.
 
You should remember that kids in year 9 and below are under 16, so if they are disadvantaged because of their parents inability to do well in life it is not the kids fault.
 
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