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Northview Distributes Chromebooks To Most Students
August 12, 2016
Most Northview High School students received a Chromebook computer on Thursday, but some parents still need to sign off on a contact with the school district.
Principal Gayle Weave said about 425 students received their Chromebook. She said about 100 have not been issued because those parents and students are required to view the district Chromebook Contract Video and must review and complete the online Chromebook Contract.
In order for a student to receive the Chromebook as soon as possible, parents and students can:
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10 Responses to “Northview Distributes Chromebooks To Most Students”
REGARDING:
“Will there be some kind of program to help with WiFi?”
There are programs to help those on SNAP get very low cost broadband, generously paid for by everybody else.
Much depends on location.
Go online and check.
(And they said they didn’t need Gore’s Internet! Ha!)
David for good things
from good people
to good people
If people can’t afford lunch how can they afford WiFi. Will there be some kind of program to help with WiFi?
Children’s education should be number one on any parents list. I can’t imagine that a parent would complain about having to have WiFi in the home for a child’s educational benefit. Working on the chrome books is preparing our children for the future and we should make every effort to make sure that happens. We had to bring books home and study from the encyclopedia and dictionary. If you insist that your children study in the same manner that we did when we were in school, they are about to be left behind. If that means cutting back on the expenses of cigarettes, alcohol and other addictions to help your child succeed, isn’t it work it?
NoMoreHandouts, I don’t know who you think you are, but you do not have a right to tell people to stop smoking, etc., I do not smoke, etc., I do not get handouts, not bragging but I was actually able to, I’m not going to judge or talk about those that haven’t or can’t pay theirs off & im not going to scoff @ anyone who doesn’t even have a home, we’ve been lucky, & we’ve had some hard times, my home is actually paid for, is yours? I pay for my food out of my pocket, I haven’t asked for anybody to raise my children, but I am not gonna pay an extra amount of dollars for Internet when I am already paying taxes & I do believe education falls in that. My childrens education is important but internet is not neither is the extra gas running back & forth to a WiFi accessible location. Some people just simply cannot afford anything extra & they shouldn’t have to shop @ a thrift store like you say. Personally I don’t shop @ thrift stores, I have donated some good stuff a time or two, so there is nothing wrong shopping in them, like you insinuated, that people needed to, like they’re for poor people or something, maybe you should. My friend you need to put your money where your mouth is & shut up, because like I said not everybody drinks smokes & carries on, some do try to live right, are you perfect, no I don’t think so, the only that is is Jesus & you my friend are not him nor his father, GOD, even if you may think you are. People good grief stop assuming everybody smokes & drinks.
REGARDING:
“Nope they can not sign on to the computer at all without WiFi”
Unless it is that different from the chromebook I use daily, yes, they should be able to do quite a bit without internet access. I can write without WiFi and it will update whenever I next get to an access point.
I have a dozen or so books stored and can read them without Internet access. If anything is stored on my Samsung Chromebook (bought on sale for $150 a year or so back, but no touch screen), I can pull it up on my dinosaur desktop using Google Chrome or on a tablet.
They are nice, no morep owerful than my old tablet but the main work is done elsewhere.
Century library has WiFi until half an hour or so after the library closes. Burger King has it if it hasn’t rained too hard. Church’s, Pizza Hut, Hardee’s. At Byrneville Elementary the signal reaches out past the red light and is on all the time. Others might share — or might not.
A Chromebook can easily carry all the books you use in school for reading and what not. What’s more, they can automatically update to make them better and better.
David for Google
Also, you can opt out to bringing the laptop home meaning you can do your homework the old fashioned why withe paper and pencil. These laptops are mere additional tools to help these kids succeed. It’s up to the parents to provide other tools such as internet to help their child succeed. It’s not up to the school to make sure every house has internet. Get real.
There will always be someone to point out the unfairness of something. Most homes have internet. With all the handout the homes with no internet are already getting, I am not sure why 30 bucks a month for their child’s education is out of the question or not affordable. And if they aren’t on public assistance, again…..why isn’t 30 bucks a month to better their childs education not a no brainer? Quit smoking, stop drinking, lay off the fast food, shop at a thrift store…these are all cost saving ideas that can allow you to get internet in your home. It’s not a hard thing to do. Now, if your too far in the boonies to even get internet, thats a different story. Not trying to be harsh, but come on…These are your kids…Make whatever sacrifices you have to to do best for them.
Nope they can not sign on to the computer at all without WiFi! The students were told well fast food restaurants have free WiFi! Not many of these kids live close enough to go to these restaurants to use their WiFi! Kinda think this was poorly planned out!!
@ Concerned:
I don’t believe the students need the internet at home to access the textbook or other downloaded material for their classes. They can get on the internet at school to update or work on things that require the internet, or most likely any place the offers free Wi-Fi.
I’m not privy to how this is set up, but issues such as a student not having access to the internet at home would have been addressed before this was implemented, at least, one would think so!
What about kids who don’t have Internet. Or parents don’t want Internet. How are they to do homework. What if a family cannot afford Internet. Why not text books.