Do all kids at FCPS receive a new laptop?

[Anonymous]

I'm new to the school system

[Anonymous]

All kids receive a laptop. Sometimes it's new and sometimes it isn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All kids receive a laptop. Sometimes it's new and sometimes it isn't.

wow, rich county! Not sure it is like this in the rest of the country

[Anonymous]

This happened after COViD struck.

[Anonymous]

Tax $

[Anonymous]

Ours is falling apart. The screen has a permanent mark and there is some screw loose on the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours is falling apart. The screen has a permanent mark and there is some screw loose on the bottom.

Then have your kid take it to IT and trade it in for a new one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is falling apart. The screen has a permanent mark and there is some screw loose on the bottom.

Then have your kid take it to IT and trade it in for a new one.

Or at least fix/repair the one you currently have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to the school system

Probably not new. My kid's battery would die after an hour, even on the dimmest light. She was able to swap the battery but the whole machine has seen better days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to the school system

Probably not new. My kid's battery would die after an hour, even on the dimmest light. She was able to swap the battery but the whole machine has seen better days.

My Oakton HS student got a Chromebook this year and the battery is soooo much better than the old laptops they used.

[Anonymous]

i really wished they didn't. education was MUCH better at our ES when they just had laptops on a cart that they got out every once in awhile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours is falling apart. The screen has a permanent mark and there is some screw loose on the bottom.

I told my kid and kid refuses. It’s their job to figure it out.

[Anonymous]

privileged kids living in fairfax county

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is falling apart. The screen has a permanent mark and there is some screw loose on the bottom.

Then have your kid take it to IT and trade it in for a new one.

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Or tell your kid not to damage it in the first place. The reason so many FCPS laptops are in rough shape is that kids don’t have accountability for anything anymore and treat school supplies like garbage. Then the parents scream at the school, not their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is falling apart. The screen has a permanent mark and there is some screw loose on the bottom.

Then have your kid take it to IT and trade it in for a new one.

i

Or tell your kid not to damage it in the first place. The reason so many FCPS laptops are in rough shape is that kids don’t have accountability for anything anymore and treat school supplies like garbage. Then the parents scream at the school, not their kids.

Giving a laptop to grade school kids is ludicrous. No, they don't treat them properly. Yes, it is the schools' fault for giving the laptop to the kids before they are ready.

When we were in school, years ago, the first "electronic device" we got were graphing calculators in middle school. We were told to be very careful with them, to treat them like glass, that they were expensive ($100 then and now). And later we treated our other electronics carefully.

Kids these days are given ipads in rubber cases in preschool and laptops at very young ages. They are not taught to be careful, they are too young for that anyway. They learn to abuse the electronics because that is how the devices are used.

Laptops also contribute to the deterioration of academics and school. But that's a separate issue.