Apparently the PPTA are going to make submissions to the government regarding accessibility of computers to poor kids. Thousands of - one estimate puts it at 100,000 - kids need 'free computers'. I wonder how many homes with no computer/internet access have Sky TV? A good number.
So this is the next 'public good' argument. These children are our future and they need to be properly educated which won't happen if they can't get to the internet to research their homework.
Well actually they can get to the internet. At their local library, internet cafe, at their friends houses and when they are at school. In fact, these are possibly better places for them to be doing their research if their own home is chaotic and overcrowded.
It is the parents who have to do the prioritising. It is the parents who have to put a value on learning over leisure. It is not the job of perfect strangers. And it pains me to say so. Because education is key to raising aspirations and expectations. But what lesson is learnt when people can constantly look to others instead of themselves for solutions?
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What planet are these people from?
Does anybody actually think that these free computers would be used for doing school work?
Hell I know what my kids use our paid for computers for - and not much of it is school work.
Oh, come on! They not only need free computers but free software, video games, internet broadband, Playstations, iPods, iTunes accounts, cellphones, txt-ing, those cool little video cameras that fit in your pocket, tickets to see Basshunter, alco-pops, Hell's Pizza and holidays on the Gold Coast.
To deny them these things is to stunt their educational and cultural development, surely?
What we really need is that these idiots that come with these plans get proper jobs, like cleaning shopping malls or accountancy work, and be taken out of taxpayer funded "policy development jobs".
Another ridiculous statement. We can't afford a computer for each of our kids. And the PPTA wants to tax me so that some P-Head can sell his kid's computer on Trademe?
Kids don't need free computers.
for that matter, Kids don't need free food.
If the parents choose not to buy computers, the kids don't deserve them.
If the parents choose not to buy food, kids don't need that either - and MY TAXES won't have to carry the economic cost for the rest of my life
Fact of the matter is - this is one of the absolute worst ideas I've seen. Get rid of benefits; get rid of the idea that parents who don't feed their kids or who don't give them computers or who don't have private health coverage or who don't send them to private schools care about their kids at all ---because they manifestly don't --- and then STOP WORRYING AT ALL ABOUT KIDS THAT THEIR OWN PARENTS DON'T CARE ABOUT
"To deny them these things is to stunt their educational and cultural development, surely?"
Didnt I read somewhere free computers for Maori is covered under the treaty?
"I wonder how many homes with no computer/internet access have Sky TV? A good number."
A quick count-up of the sattelite dishes in the low-rent areras will soon confirm this.
The shame of it is there is so much good, eduational TV on Sky!
Again some lefty nutter talks about something I and other compulsory contributers will fund as FREE!!! FFS it aint free it is at no cost to them but that wouldn't be within the realm of their understanding would it.
This happened in Hong Kong and yep, the parents sold the computers to pay for things like gambling on the GG's.
But giving free PC's to kids make SUCH good political copy...
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