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School board reps voted out after iBook deal

updated 02:20 pm EST, Wed November 5, 2003

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A Stillwater area school district decision to provide iBooks to junior high students apparently fueled a record number of write-in votes for the school board Tuesday and led to the , while another who didn't vote for the deal were re-elected, according Pioneer Press: ""When the deal was announced, many district residents were angry that they had not been consulted about the deal, which will cost the district about $2 million. School board officials said Apple demanded an immediate decision or else they would go to another school."

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typical

schools were never about education, were they? f*****' adults...

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definitely not

The schools I went to sure as h*** weren't about education. I was bored out of my mind from the beginning of 3rd grade all the way through high-school. It isn't until I got to college that I found anything remotely interesting or challenging. This is just typical, most adults talk about giving kids a good education, but lookout if it will cost us even an extra ten bucks a year...

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HEY!

WTF!

HOW DARE THE SCHOOL BOARD VOTE TO SPEND 1.75 MILLION ON SOMETHING THAT WILL ACTUALLY HELP THE STUDENTS!!!

GET RID OF THEM!

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demands

Apple *demanded* an immediate decision? They are doing that to a potential $2 million client? Gutsy.

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11/05, 02:48pm | report spam | close Reply |
And who's to blame?

The iBook initiative was discussed at school board and PTA meeting for two months, yet everyone is up in arms for not being aware of this plan.

Just goes to show how involved those parents are in their childrens education.

Bad parents! Bad, bad parents!!!

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Not Gutsy.

How would you like to be the EDU rep for the area, Holding $2mil (potentially more if it's sold at non-edu or quantity pricing) worth of product that may not get paid for?

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NO ONE

No one ever gets canned for buying Microsoft/Intel products.

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I wonder

If we can do the same, I was not consulted where my 87 billion was going. For 87 billion we can KILL EVERYONE ON IRAQ, and never be bothered by them again!

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cheaper = better

The only thing schools seem to care about is money.

the cheaper solution is always the most used by most educators.

$2 million for Macs
or $1.75 millino for PCs

easy choice.

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EXACTLY

With the BILLIONS of our dollars spent on illegal wars with countries who are no more in the wrong than others we are friends with, what is 2 million bucks for something that will actually do some GOOD.

What a crock...

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you wonder...

...no the American people have very short memories.

Remember when we were going to get those reps who impeached Clinton, wasting millions of dollars and making a scandal over a lie which, let's face it, is NOTHING compared to Reagan's little "stories" of nonexistent welfare frauds and such? Or Bush Sr.'s deals with drug lords? Or Bush Jr.'s ordering the EPA to declare the air in NYC safe after 9/11 so we could give asbestosis and cancer to all the rescue workers, who were told they didn't need protective gear?

Come to think of it, remember when people were pissed about NAFTA and wanted to kick Clinton out? They forgot...

Remember when people were so angry over the theft of the election they were going to vote Bush Jr out of office in 2004? Not gonna happen. (I knew a LOT of Republicans who were angry that democracy meant so little. We're not just talking a minor thing, we're talking about 57,000 voters removed from the rolls just before the election...based on race and district...a story well covered by the BBS and London Observer and pretty well supported by loads of evidence. And we're also talking about tuning voting machines in different districts to either accept and invalidate ballots, or to reject ballots immediately so they coudl be fixed and re-submitted. But that stirs indignation only for a week. Then we go back to normal.)

Voters have no memory. If it happens just before the election, it matters. Otherwise, it never happened and nobody cares - unless the media find a reason care to drag it in front of us again just before the election.

And I wonder about the write-ins. As they say, follow the money.

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Education Sucks

Education keeps sliping lower and lower. Just when you figure our country can't get any worse. Money, greed and big business rule.
Think Different - Yeah Right !!!!

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good

they should have to pay for those outta their own damn pockets!

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remember

no, i forgot, i dont care, just return those damn ibooks...

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Re: you wonder...

"...no the American people have very short memories."

Seems as though you forgot all the Clinton scandals.

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More stellar reporting!

Once again leave it to MacNN and their insightful readers to miss a key fact. The purchase was to provide computers for only one of the schools in the district, and parents were upset at the unequal treatment of the other schools.

It's not about computers. It's not about Mac vs. Windows. It's about that there wasn't enough to go around, and it would create an uneven level of education within the school district.

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Thank you!

Thanks for slamming the door on this stupid thread.

I would be pissed if one school got a new facility and my student was left out.

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huh?

"the cheaper solution is always the most used by most educators.

$2 million for Macs
or $1.75 millino for PCs

easy choice."

Huh?? where are you getting those numbers for PC vs Mac?

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Why bother educating them

All the jobs are going to India anyway.

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Re: Why bother

"All the jobs are going to India anyway."

Sad isn't it.

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"Seems as though you forgot all the Clinton scandals."

The only really bad thing Clinton ever did was allow such an ugly trollop dog faced monkey to polish his pipes.

The Bush' are doing a far better job at destroying the country.

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Republic

Umm, ignoring all the other issues, the US is a republic. The school board exists for a reason, to make decisions about schools. They are voted in by the residents to perform this work. That's why they were elected. So why are the residents now whining that they weren't consulted? Representatives are there to represent the area. They aren't there to just take polls of the people and just follow what the will says. If you want that, close down the board and hold monthly referendums to vote on every decision that needs to be made.

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Duh

And because they made unrepresentative decisions, the incumbents were voted out. You didn't happen to notice that part?

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School board reps voted out after iBook deal

updated 02:20 pm EST, Wed November 5, 2003

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definitely not

HEY!

demands

And who's to blame?

Not Gutsy.

NO ONE

I wonder

cheaper = better

re: I wonder

you wonder...

Education Sucks

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remember

Re: you wonder...

More stellar reporting!

Thank you!

huh?

Why bother educating them

Re: Why bother

Re: you wonder...

Republic

Duh

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