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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on February 26, 2006, 06:16:56 pm

Title: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Kosh on February 26, 2006, 06:16:56 pm: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060224-6259.html

Am I the only one who sees this as just a collosal waste of school funding?
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Ford Prefect on February 26, 2006, 06:26:42 pm: I can guess what their property taxes are like.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: aldo_14 on February 26, 2006, 06:29:03 pm: But they could be secret members of the Osamas Buddies Club!
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Charismatic on February 26, 2006, 06:29:48 pm: Quote from: aldo_14 on February 26, 2006, 06:29:03 pm
But they could be secret members of the Osamas Buddies Club!
Lol.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Solatar on February 26, 2006, 06:33:17 pm: And I thought Smartboards were pushing the "useful, yes, needless, possibly as well" barrier.
http://www.mountsaintmary.org/images/technology.smartboard.jpg
Of course, the highschool that I go to isn't paid for by taxpayers, but I'm still betting they were a big chunk of the $26 million initial pricetag of the school.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: an0n on February 26, 2006, 06:44:30 pm: Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can pick retinal scanners up for a few hundred bucks now, right?
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: aldo_14 on February 26, 2006, 06:46:54 pm: Quote from: an0n on February 26, 2006, 06:44:30 pm
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can pick retinal scanners up for a few hundred bucks now, right?

Not if you're any form of official government bureaucracy.......
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Grug on February 26, 2006, 06:57:16 pm: Seems like fear mongering to me. >..>
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Janos on February 26, 2006, 06:58:50 pm: maybe they should focus on basic grammar there :cool: MASTERSTROKE
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Taristin on February 26, 2006, 10:06:04 pm: I can't wait for the parents to start screaming that the school cause the children to go blind/need glasses/develope some form of cancer.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Deepblue on February 27, 2006, 01:10:55 am: My school has smartboards...

*ducks*

Yet I've never seen one used.

Maybe it's because I'm in the honors classes as opposed to the retard classes.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: vyper on February 27, 2006, 03:20:22 am: God damnit. I was going to do something like this for my project last year and then abandoned it. Sure, someone somewhere must've built a biometric access system in an academic institution... oh wait, no they ****ing hadn't until this - I could've had a ground breaking project.

Excuse me while I go cry over my WAP website project.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: aldo_14 on February 27, 2006, 04:31:12 am: Quote from: vyper on February 27, 2006, 03:20:22 am
God damnit. I was going to do something like this for my project last year and then abandoned it. Sure, someone somewhere must've built a biometric access system in an academic institution... oh wait, no they ****ing hadn't until this - I could've had a ground breaking project.

I got offered a Phd scholarship to do that a while back. Well, on biometric database storage & use for access & security use, anyways. Still not decided if I regret turning it down.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: aldo_14 on February 27, 2006, 04:31:19 am: bleh
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Martinus on February 27, 2006, 07:07:46 am: Quote from: Deepblue on February 27, 2006, 01:10:55 am
Maybe it's because I'm in the honors classes as opposed to the retard classes.
May I say it's very kind of you to describe people of lower intelligence as retards.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Janos on February 27, 2006, 08:31:54 am: Quote from: Maeglamor on February 27, 2006, 07:07:46 am
Quote from: Deepblue on February 27, 2006, 01:10:55 am
Maybe it's because I'm in the honors classes as opposed to the retard classes.
May I say it's very kind of you to describe people of lower intelligence as retards.

maybe it's true
(please get it maeg it's important)
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Deepblue on February 27, 2006, 09:12:40 am: I say that because if you're not in honors classes at my school, you aren't even trying.

"Honors" is really the norm.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 27, 2006, 09:17:42 am: I love how a thread dedicated to complaining about a misplaced education budget has a misspelled word in the title.

Oh, the IRONY! :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: aldo_14 on February 27, 2006, 09:29:45 am: Quote from: Deepblue on February 27, 2006, 09:12:40 am
I say that because if you're not in honors classes at my school, you aren't even trying.

"Honors" is really the norm.

Honours, even.

:nervous:

Spoiler:
Yes, I know it's 'correct' thanks to the strange American practice of bastardizing the english language by removing the mildly hard bits from it.
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Kosh on February 27, 2006, 10:02:17 am: Quote from: nuclear1 on February 27, 2006, 09:17:42 am
I love how a thread dedicated to complaining about a misplaced education budget has a misspelled word in the title.

Oh, the IRONY! :lol: :lol:

I am a product of the American ejImaeCashen system. :p
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: Martinus on February 27, 2006, 10:24:00 am: Quote from: Kosh on February 27, 2006, 10:02:17 am
I am a product of the American ejImaeCashen system. :p
You can leave out the words 'a' and 'the' dude, no need to cater for the proper English speaking members of the forum. ;)

Deepblue: I assume you've simply ignored the special needs students in that case? Your school does not work with dyslexics, students with learning problems etc. etc. ?
Title: Re: Most rediculous waste of a school's budget
Post by: aldo_14 on February 27, 2006, 10:30:52 am: Quote from: Maeglamor on February 27, 2006, 10:24:00 am
You can leave out the words 'a' and 'the' dude, no need to cater for the proper English speaking members of the forum. ;)

Deepblue: I assume you've simply ignored the special needs students in that case? Your school does not work with dyslexics, students with learning problems etc. etc. ?

Presumably they're all just making excuses.