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To: epicure who wrote (245986)	3/1/2014 6:08:40 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 542139

The Common Core testing will be online. So schools have to have computers now for most of their students- it would be impossible to administer the testing any other way. Our students do not take the computers home. I personally have been writing grants to try to get computers for my poor students who have no computer at home- as this is a tremendous disadvantage to them. I allow them to use mine- at lunch, before school and after school- but to even the playing field they need one at home. Comcast will let me set up free WIfi for them- they've got a program I have teamed up with- so I just need to get computers. It's hard to find grants for this though- most donors want their stuff to stay at school- and it's hard to convince them just how important these computers are for the kids. I wonder if it would be more feasible for the kids to purchase their own computers/chromebook over time. Something like $10 a month over 2- 3 years in a deal with the maker? (that's a rhetorical question). Would they be responsible enough to take care of them? Would the computers get ripped off if they left the school? What percentage of kids at your school would you say don't have access to computers at home? And/or access to another source like at the public library? When you talk to these non-computer owning kids parent(s) does the subject of computer ownership and its importance come up? This seems like a problem worth the time and effort of some big thinkers to spend some time on.