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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
I have kids. Computers are cheap as fuck right now and "poor minority" kids spend more than the cost of a laptop on bling and sneakers.
If I paid taxes I would be pissed as hell if someone used them to buy laptops for minority kids. Maybe a "bling for sneakers" program I could get behind. But free computers? I did fine without one as a poor trailer park kid, kids today can buy their own.
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Agreed. My thoughts exactly.
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Study Shows Computers Lower Grades, But May Boost IQs
Many groups want to bring a computer to every child in the world, on the assumption that the computer will help the child in school and life. But is that assumption true? A new study of lower income families in Romania shows that the introduction of a computer in the home markedly lowered grades in school, but improved the child?s cognitive skills, like spatial relations . We speak with study co-author Ofer Malamud, assistant professor of public policy at the University of Chicago.
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