New Netbook Computers For Ernest Ward, Northview

December 14, 2010

Four dozen new netbook computers are being purchased for a couple of North Escambia schools.

The Escambia County School District is purchasing 22 Dell netbooks for Ernest Ward Middle School and 26 Dell netbooks for Northview High School. The netbooks are part of a $489,283.72 technology purchase of over 500 computers for schools across the district.

The netbooks for student use at Ernest Ward and Northview are Dell Latitudes with 1.83 Ghz processors, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drives, Microsoft Office Pro 2007 and a three year warranty.

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6 Responses to “New Netbook Computers For Ernest Ward, Northview”

  1. David Huie Green on December 15th, 2010 9:13 pm

    REGARING:
    “why are we graduating students who cannot think,read or write or manage day to day activities,like work”

    Partly because such people used to drop out ere graduating. Then folks noticed drop-outs tended to not make much money and go into lives of crime at an above average rate, so they decided to force them to stay in school–wrongly thinking it would make them smarter and better workers, less inclined toward crime. You still have as many people who can think, you just have more graduates than you used to.

    David for keeping cart and horse in proper positions

  2. terri sanders on December 15th, 2010 8:25 am

    I agree with you John,used to be we used books,pencils ,papers and our brain.With all the technology we have why are we graduating students who cannot think,read or write or manage day to day activities,like work?Seems like the good old days taught us much more,maybe not as fast but what we learned stuck with us.

  3. ProudArmyParent on December 14th, 2010 5:24 pm

    John, all social network and questionable sites are blocked through the Escambia School District. Unless the student is a computer hacker, (which some of them are,) they can not get access to any unathorized sites.

  4. Student of NHS on December 14th, 2010 5:19 pm

    This can either be a good OR a bad thing. Some students will not, and I repeat, WILL NOT respect other people’s property I hate to say. The schools, especially Northview, should be very selective when it come to the use of the newer technology. It might never make it out of the box with some of those kids.

  5. John on December 14th, 2010 10:51 am

    I remember the good old days when we used pencil and paper for our readin and writn. Now they’re gonna use computers? Shoot. I hope they block those myspaces and other crazy sites. I’m not against technology, Im just afraid there won’t be enough supervision and some wild teacher in another county will solicit our kids… too many weirdos on the web!

  6. Lyall on December 14th, 2010 8:01 am

    Glad we are spending our money locally.