Comments on: Back to School Shopping http://penguin-geek.org/2008/08/17/back-to-school-shopping/ Life, the Universe, and Everything... plus Penguins. Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Adam http://penguin-geek.org/2008/08/17/back-to-school-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-25244 Adam Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:48:54 +0000 http://penguin-geek.org/?p=341#comment-25244 Yeah, good luck to them about the laptop part. If I can't afford one for myself there's no way my kids will each get one. I hope those shows on Nickelodeon/Disney aren't setting their hopes up too high for what awaits them in high school. Laptop? There's only one type of notebook I can afford. I think that having some of the work submittable via the web wouldn't be so bad. Maybe some assignments run through a workflow kind of deal where parents would just review the homework (at least just sign off on it), and then be forwarded to the teacher. It may sound too complicated for our town though. All this nifty technology and no one wants to embrace it. Yeah, good luck to them about the laptop part. If I can’t afford one for myself there’s no way my kids will each get one. I hope those shows on Nickelodeon/Disney aren’t setting their hopes up too high for what awaits them in high school. Laptop? There’s only one type of notebook I can afford.

I think that having some of the work submittable via the web wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe some assignments run through a workflow kind of deal where parents would just review the homework (at least just sign off on it), and then be forwarded to the teacher. It may sound too complicated for our town though. All this nifty technology and no one wants to embrace it.

]]> By: Rick http://penguin-geek.org/2008/08/17/back-to-school-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-25243 Rick Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:16:41 +0000 http://penguin-geek.org/?p=341#comment-25243 I don't think it was quite as bad. In the DoD schools, you only had one place to shop for school supplies. In Hawaii, it was kind of a pain with a few items but not as bad as the schools here have gotten the past few years. It seems to get more absurd every year. In a few years, you'll be required to send each kid to school with a state of the art laptop with the latest and greatest software so they can submit all their schoolwork electronically to some ridiculous format that Office won't let you achieve without a lot of pain and aggravation. Why not do it all online. Social skills are so 20th century anyway. I don’t think it was quite as bad. In the DoD schools, you only had one place to shop for school supplies. In Hawaii, it was kind of a pain with a few items but not as bad as the schools here have gotten the past few years. It seems to get more absurd every year.

In a few years, you’ll be required to send each kid to school with a state of the art laptop with the latest and greatest software so they can submit all their schoolwork electronically to some ridiculous format that Office won’t let you achieve without a lot of pain and aggravation.

Why not do it all online. Social skills are so 20th century anyway.

]]> By: Adam http://penguin-geek.org/2008/08/17/back-to-school-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-25242 Adam Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:47:53 +0000 http://penguin-geek.org/?p=341#comment-25242 And they still have the nerve to charge school fees. What for? I already bought all of their supplies! Plus with all of the additional levies, what are they spending this money on? Were my school supplies anything like this when I was in school? And they still have the nerve to charge school fees. What for? I already bought all of their supplies! Plus with all of the additional levies, what are they spending this money on?

Were my school supplies anything like this when I was in school?

]]> By: Rick http://penguin-geek.org/2008/08/17/back-to-school-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-25241 Rick Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:35:27 +0000 http://penguin-geek.org/?p=341#comment-25241 It sounds more like a scavenger hunt than a shopping list. Why do they have to be so particular on the specifications? What difference does the color of the folders make? Back when I was a kid (yeah way back in 1960) the list was pretty basic -- a couple of pencils, some paper, a jar of paste, and a box of crayons. Everything was replaced as needed. Personally, I think it's a ploy by the teachers to build up their supplies. I guess the city/state education budget is too tight to provide them with dry-erase markers and chalk. At least you don't have to buy their textbooks (yet). It sounds more like a scavenger hunt than a shopping list. Why do they have to be so particular on the specifications? What difference does the color of the folders make?

Back when I was a kid (yeah way back in 1960) the list was pretty basic — a couple of pencils, some paper, a jar of paste, and a box of crayons. Everything was replaced as needed. Personally, I think it’s a ploy by the teachers to build up their supplies. I guess the city/state education budget is too tight to provide them with dry-erase markers and chalk. At least you don’t have to buy their textbooks (yet).

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