Recommendable: healthwyze.org/political-vide…("Another sign of the system being totally corrupted is their #SmartBoards which are replacing blackboards in every room. Along with most other so-called "smart" technologies, it is really a device intended more to dumb-down the users,
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>or to at least insult their intelligence. These devices cost roughly $5,000 per unit, and require an additional recent..#computer to drive them. Therefore, when the cost of one of these is added to the cost of its driving computer, plus the #cost of setup,
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>plus the cost of all of the required software, plus the cost of training, then the price is certainly over $10,000 per classroom (and likely closer to $20,000 per room). This would place the cost for each upgrade at well over a million dollars per school every couple of years.
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>One has to wonder to whom the kick-back checks get mailed. How many books could be purchased, new schools built, and teachers hired for what the grand total is every couple of years, whenever they purchase a "required" upgrade? If the students are really "falling behind"
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>as the teachers recently admitted to a group of parents, then do they really need those distracting $10,000 cartoon display devices in their classes? A look at the county's "technology plan", and the diagram of the school's network topology exposes the agenda as one of
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>maximizing expenses. Do they really need those..high priced, fiber optic cables for their #eMail? Why are they using Novell Netware servers on a mixed Apple and Windows network, unless the true goals are to increase #complexity, and thereby increase the expenses?"
Sarah Corriher
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