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How about we just give their entire families Internet access for free? Fios js something like $75/mo for gigabit Ethernet (inclusive of a WiFi router, etc) and
by hshdhdhj4444 10mo ago
How about we just give their entire families Internet access for free?
Fios js something like $75/mo for gigabit Ethernet (inclusive of a WiFi router, etc) and there are smaller gigabit providers that will give you service for under $50. And with bulk contracts I’m sure the govt could get a better price than even that.
If the govt can negotiate a rate of about $25/mo it could provide all 800k students homes high quality internet.
But only about 115k are estimated to have insufficient internet access so at $50/month, you can provide (let’s round up to 150k students) all their families internet access for $90mm as opposed to the $200mm they’re currently paying.
Nevermind. The article states the city has gotten Spectrum to agree to $15/mo service. So providing every student’s family free internet service would cost the city $160mm. You would still save well over 20% before considering the hardware cost savings by not having to buy LTE.
- ndriscoll 10mo agoFor a one-time $60/computer they could put a 1 TB nvme drive in preloaded with whatever software they need, all of English wikipedia, all classic literature and textbooks they will reference, and 850 GB of whatever else is useful reference material (e.g. maybe all of the Khan Academy videos). It's very non-obvious to me that school computers need an Internet connection at all. Have it back up the kids' home folders onto a school network drive automatically when it gets on the school wifi.
- t-writescode 10mo agoHow do the students turn in assignments and/or get live help on their assignments?
- ndriscoll 10mo agoThey go to class. Teachers should not be helping students outside of school hours. They should have a life and meet their own needs as humans. For that matter students shouldn't be doing more than 6-7 hours of school work per day, which they already get at school. Students have no need to turn in assignments outside of normal hours, and it's unhealthy to encourage them to do so (this is where uni professors really need to stop setting computers to accept work at midnight. Horrible habit to build that needs to be untaught when people start working).
- lostlogin 10mo ago> Teachers should not be helping students outside of school hours. I agree. But for some reason teachers work after school and at weekends, for free. I’m unsure why they don’t just stop.
- t-writescode 10mo agoBecause some of those teachers really want the kids to achieve and are bound by a sense of duty and care for their students. Good teachers aren't paid enough. Aren't paid anywhere near enough.
- sokoloff 10mo agoWhen I was in university, midnight was well inside “normal hours” for me (mostly by choice, not by crushing workload despite being at a competitive school).
- Workaccount2 10mo agoYou can't sell them an education package SaaS that costs $200/student/mo that just rehashes the same educational tool set from the 60's.