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iPod debate still rages
Submitted by mdees on 08/26/2008 - 10:48
In case you missed our story Sunday about the iPod Touches that might be handed out to all Culbreth Middle School students, here it is.
It's sparked quite the discussion about the merits of this experiment. Feel free to weigh in.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools board of education is slated to take up the proposed program at its Sept. 4 meeting.
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Laptops instead
Tue, 08/26/2008 - 18:25 — elvisboy77Ipod touches are $300 to $500 at Best Buy. I got a really nice laptop for $500 from that store in June. Way more capable than an Ipod, bigger screen, way more storage, etc etc.
If technology is that important, then they should get laptops. I am sure someone will come up with thinly veiled excuses why Ipods are better, but the "cool factor" is what is the real deal behind any arguement.
Be practical, get laptops, but first tell us what you are actually going to do with them. The reporter stated early in the article that he had no idea what they would be used for. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Get with it CHCCS!
supporting ipod use difficult until basic problems addressed
Tue, 08/26/2008 - 13:55 — chccsparent (not verified)While some parents really like Culbreth's principal, there are significant numbers of faculty and parents who do not. Ask the Parents whose kids did not get into any language either in 7th or 8th grade-after being told foreign language selections get top priority by Ms Wells herself. Ask the parents mobbing the school right now to get academic electives on their kid's schedules. Ask the Orchestra parents whose children's need to play and practice as part of the whole orchestra are ignored. Ask the parents of gifted-identified children on how their children's needs are not being met as per *district* rules. Ask the teachers who feel spied upon by Ms Well's 'pets.' Note the large number of teachers who left. There is no collegial atmosphere at that school, but rather, extreme tenseness. Parents are seen as adversaries, rather than allies, in the education of their children. All these problems make supporting the ipod touch program difficult, at best.