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Homework? Have you tried using a Google Chromebook without the internet?

akira2501 2y ago
Google Chromebooks are mobile devices, correct? Presumably the student could take it somewhere that does have the internet. Like a library or the school itself.
- mdanger007 2y ago
  Get real dude. You try getting out of work and then driving to a library for internet to do some work. Now have someone drive you to the library and pick you up cuz you don't have a driver's license. And pack yourself a snack because you're going to be hungry and after school. Cancel all engagements with your friends. Your library closes at 6:00. But you need to finish this report and it's going to take all night... Should I go on?
  - akira2501 2y ago
    > getting out of work What are my priorities? Education or work? > cuz you don't have a driver's license How did I get to work? > pack yourself a snack because you're going to be hungry and after school Not exactly a herculean chore. I mean, I'm hungry every day, it comes up as a problem often. > Cancel all engagements with your friends. What are my priorities? Education or social engagements? > Your library closes at 6:00. School is out at 3, though. Or am I working between 3 and 6? > But you need to finish this report and it's going to take all night I have to have internet the entire time I'm writing a report? > Should I go on? With less hyperbole? Meanwhile, you want me to believe that a $30 subsidy is all it takes to erase this, and you don't think this strange imbalance doesn't describe a fundamental problem with our entire model for education and internet costs in literally any other life context? Even within your own example.. how did I get a job without having constant internet access at home? You think I'm trying to be mean to poor kids. Instead I'm suggesting you stop using them as an excuse to transfer funds and instead solve the actual problems they're going to face for their entire lives.
    - bdjsiqoocwk 2y ago
      > Instead I'm suggesting you stop using them as an excuse to transfer funds In your mind this is an "excuse" to transfer funds. So in your mind, what is the real reason for the fund transfer? The people who benefit from them directly don't have the power to do the transfer, so who is benefited?
  - nolist_policy 2y ago
    Presumably Students work offline at home and upload their homework when at school.
ndriscoll 2y ago
Silver lining: maybe that will prevent schools from assigning homework or otherwise making students use a device that requires an Internet connection. Reminder that you can fit Wikipedia on a $15 thumb drive with 20 GB left over to trivially store all of your classwork, every assigned book, and whatever other reference materials that you will use kindergarten through university.
- rysertio 2y ago
  but you can't submit your assignment through Google classroom.
nolist_policy 2y ago
Yes. What's the deal?

Google Chromebooks are mobile devices, correct? Presumably the student could take it somewhere that does have the internet. Like a library or the school itself.

mdanger007 2y ago
Get real dude. You try getting out of work and then driving to a library for internet to do some work. Now have someone drive you to the library and pick you up cuz you don't have a driver's license. And pack yourself a snack because you're going to be hungry and after school. Cancel all engagements with your friends. Your library closes at 6:00. But you need to finish this report and it's going to take all night... Should I go on?
- akira2501 2y ago
  > getting out of work What are my priorities? Education or work? > cuz you don't have a driver's license How did I get to work? > pack yourself a snack because you're going to be hungry and after school Not exactly a herculean chore. I mean, I'm hungry every day, it comes up as a problem often. > Cancel all engagements with your friends. What are my priorities? Education or social engagements? > Your library closes at 6:00. School is out at 3, though. Or am I working between 3 and 6? > But you need to finish this report and it's going to take all night I have to have internet the entire time I'm writing a report? > Should I go on? With less hyperbole? Meanwhile, you want me to believe that a $30 subsidy is all it takes to erase this, and you don't think this strange imbalance doesn't describe a fundamental problem with our entire model for education and internet costs in literally any other life context? Even within your own example.. how did I get a job without having constant internet access at home? You think I'm trying to be mean to poor kids. Instead I'm suggesting you stop using them as an excuse to transfer funds and instead solve the actual problems they're going to face for their entire lives.
  - bdjsiqoocwk 2y ago
    > Instead I'm suggesting you stop using them as an excuse to transfer funds In your mind this is an "excuse" to transfer funds. So in your mind, what is the real reason for the fund transfer? The people who benefit from them directly don't have the power to do the transfer, so who is benefited?
- nolist_policy 2y ago
  Presumably Students work offline at home and upload their homework when at school.

ndriscoll 2y ago

Silver lining: maybe that will prevent schools from assigning homework or otherwise making students use a device that requires an Internet connection. Reminder that you can fit Wikipedia on a $15 thumb drive with 20 GB left over to trivially store all of your classwork, every assigned book, and whatever other reference materials that you will use kindergarten through university.

rysertio 2y ago
but you can't submit your assignment through Google classroom.

nolist_policy 2y ago

Yes. What's the deal?