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I can assure you the state already has plenty staff on hand with plenty of training on giving out free stuff. And even if they don’t: jobs program.
> jobs program Bastiat would like a word.
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In all, over the last decade, the [teachers] union spent $6,448,327 on travel expenses. That comes out to an average of $53,736 a month, every month, for 10 straight years. How does that fulfill the union’s tax-exempt mission to “elevate the quality of public education for all students”? That amount does not include "Conferences, conventions, and meetings." https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/marylands-te…
The real question is whether the state standards should be expected to apply to inner city schools. The knee jerk reaction is to say yes of course how could they not, but that ignores all sorts of socioeconomic context that goes into education.
The following Dell laptop would be better than a vendor locked in Chromebook: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-lap...
The following Dell laptop would be better than a vendor locked in Chromebook: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-lap...
I wish those had been Linux laptops. Now Google gets 133K more devices to spy on.
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The populist desire to exempt "crackheads" from every social service is why we have so many crackheads.
If we provide social services to crackheads what do you think they'll spend the money on? Not crack?
As to the topic... giving poor people internet access is just not a good idea... I've been to the libraries. After walking past the book displays featuring the evils of white poeple, abortion celebration, and pronouns, I was dismayed to see every public computer occupied with poor people researching how to make crack. A few of them even had USB cooktops plugged into the PC to cook crack right there at the PCs. All that taxpayer funding to power USB crack cooktops instead of subsidizing companies who dump GenX and coal ash into our water sources.
The following Dell laptop would be better than a vendor locked in Chromebook: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-lap...
> a vendor locked in Chromebook Choose your poison. Macbooks are tightly knit with Apple and phone home, but are absurdly expensive and people pay for the privilege of getting spied on. Same with Chromebooks: we're just another datapoint for Google, and much more data is collected. Why not hand out Thinkpads flashed with Trisquel Linux[0]? (A Libre Linux that respects privacy?). And don't get me started on Windows 10…
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If we provide social services to crackheads what do you think they'll spend the money on? Not crack?
Just the other day I saw a crackhead swiping their EBT card and Medicaid card with the crack dealer. They were then able to intercept the section 8 check to the landlord and spend it on crack instead (it is definitely illegal to kick out a tenant who smokes crack, don't look this up, just trust me). The landlord was deprived of that money :( As to the topic... giving poor people internet access is just not a good ide…
Show me the lie. ;) I think the Internet was a better place before Eternal September, when it was the exclusive precinct of relatively affluent white male nerds.
Accessibility has only made it proportionally worse ever since.
I don't like it, but I think elitism is right.