Pittsburgh Public Schools first 9 weeks to be remote learning (low income, purchases)

[gg]

PPS, can't start when they want because they don't have enough laptops. People too busy protesting to lend a hand? Seems protesting is a lot easier than actually doing something that will make a difference. Sad. Meanwhile in the powerful suburb schools, not problem at all. The superintendent makes a pile of money. No help? Peduto? Other powerful figures making a ton? ha, ha. Where are they? No where to be found.

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[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Merge

He deserves all the credit in the world for leaving.
The entire region thanks him.

Not so sure that “he’s not an incessant whiner”, though.
He worked at it here for years.

Lol at the “entire region”. I’ve stated the truth for years.

I find the city dumpy which is why I moved out of it and into the burbs. Now I have excellent weather most all year now and I’ll only be visiting the city a few times a year, plus I expect the city to get worse, so perfect time to spend much less time there.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

Those records were probably written by white slave owners. Getting ripped from your homeland and raped by strange pale men could not have been better. Getting ripped from your mother as a young child then dehumanized for a lifetime could not have been better than the homeland. Spending a lifetime wondering and searching for loved ones sold off at the market could not have been better.

White people told themselves that bull**** in order to sleep at night.

Lol

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

City folk adhere to Covid19 rules. Suburban folk are less likely to adhere to Covid19 rules.

Stats to that?

[Paul2421]

Originally Posted by gg

PPS, can't start when they want because they don't have enough laptops. People too busy protesting to lend a hand? Seems protesting is a lot easier than actually doing something that will make a difference. Sad. Meanwhile in the powerful suburb schools, not problem at all. The superintendent makes a pile of money. No help? Peduto? Other powerful figures making a ton? ha, ha. Where are they? No where to be found.

https://www.wpxi.com/news/back-to-sc...O6DPISCEIA7VY/

would they be making the laptops? it is a supply shortage. and the suburbs have their own problems.

[gg]

Originally Posted by Paul2421

would they be making the laptops? it is a supply shortage. and the suburbs have their own problems.

Oh, have you heard of a suburb school closing because no laptops?

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by gg

Oh, have you heard of a suburb school closing because no laptops?

Suburban schools don't have such a high percentage of the student body which doesn't have regular access to a computer at home.

[gg]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Suburban schools don't have such a high percentage of the student body which doesn't have regular access to a computer at home.

Geez. That is news to me. The people bumming money on the streets have big dollar smart phones. Didn’t know.

[sealie]

It’s a one week delay. Some of the Mon Valley schools are dealing with the same problem. Students who already own computers are encouraged to use those, so naturally this will have more of an impact on East Allegheny than Aspinwall.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by gg

Geez. That is news to me. The people bumming money on the streets have big dollar smart phones. Didn’t know.

You can't do the coursework on a phone. A tablet works, but less people have tablets. And I'm pretty sure you can't do it on a playstation or whatever.

Also keep in mind while most middle/high school kids probably have phones of some kind, elementary school age kids don't. And if you have multiple kids, you will need a device for each one, since they'll have classes simultaneously.

My wife and I both have laptops, and we have a total of four tablets in the house (though three of them are finicky). We still got a laptop for our daughter from the district because they instructed us to ask for one provided she didn't have a dedicated personal computer.