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Is there really a shortage of school computers? Unrequested: my kids got sent a chrome book and MSFT surface for school this year, when they already had better
by valuearb 6y ago
Is there really a shortage of school computers? Unrequested: my kids got sent a chrome book and MSFT surface for school this year, when they already had better home computers.
The US has never spent a higher percent of GDP on education,
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending
so why is this a problem and what does it have to do with Right to Repair?
- wmf 6y ago"Lenovo, HP, and Dell have told school districts they have a shortage of nearly 5 million laptops" https://nypost.com/2020/08/23/us-faces-back-to-school-laptop-shortage-amid-covid-19/ https://nypost.com/2020/08/23/us-faces-back-to-school-laptop...
- valuearb 6y agoAgain, does every kid need a school procured laptop or pc? Mine didn’t, they had their own. My guess is most kids do so if schools just focused on the kids who didn’t already have computers the backlog would likely disappear.