Do all kids at FCPS receive a new laptop?

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

The majority of kids treat their laptops just fine. It’s always like two boys in the class, there seems to be a direct link to their level of cleanliness and maturity, to how their laptop is cared for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The majority of kids treat their laptops just fine. It’s always like two boys in the class, there seems to be a direct link to their level of cleanliness and maturity, to how their laptop is cared for.

Oh? That's why the laptops that are not brand new are disasters? Just two kids are wrecking all of the older laptops? Or maybe regular Dell laptops are not suitable for the task and the entire 1-to-1 concept is poorly thought out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The majority of kids treat their laptops just fine. It’s always like two boys in the class, there seems to be a direct link to their level of cleanliness and maturity, to how their laptop is cared for.

Oh? That's why the laptops that are not brand new are disasters? Just two kids are wrecking all of the older laptops? Or maybe regular Dell laptops are not suitable for the task and the entire 1-to-1 concept is poorly thought out.

DD is on her 4th laptop this year. She is super careful with her electronics. The problems have been things like WiFi not working, laptop randomly crashing (in the middle of a test! That was fun), some sort of BIOS fault, etc. Each time, she traded it in for something that works. I think it's just a function of them being old, and some electronic devices having problems regardless of age.

[Anonymous]

Last year, they did seem to hold people accountable for damaged and/or lost equipment at our ES. It seemed like a positive change. I think each charger is $20 if not turned in, and a laptop is in the high $100s if I remember correctly.

Maybe that helped a bit?

[Anonymous]

My fourth grader leaves it at school thank goodness. My seventh grader uses his every day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The majority of kids treat their laptops just fine. It’s always like two boys in the class, there seems to be a direct link to their level of cleanliness and maturity, to how their laptop is cared for.

Oh? That's why the laptops that are not brand new are disasters? Just two kids are wrecking all of the older laptops? Or maybe regular Dell laptops are not suitable for the task and the entire 1-to-1 concept is poorly thought out.

I think the fact that they’re old and I’ve probably been cycled through anywhere from 2 to 4 students probably answers your question. But for the new computers, I would agree with the PP. The majority of promblems don’t happen until they’re older.

[Anonymous]

Colossal waste. They need to ask who needs a laptop. Instead, FCPS thinks it's freaking Oprah: "YOU get a laptop! YOU get a laptop!...."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

YOU should be the one teaching your kids to respect school property and treat it well. Too many parents have abdicated all responsibility for basic parenting then get upset when a teacher can’t raise 25 kids at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the grade. Kindergarteners have ipads, but they're kept at school and only used for certain things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:privileged kids living in fairfax county

Well, kids no longer use texbooks or notebooks. What do other counties do?

Not sure why you are in the FCPS forum if you're not in Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

I would rather opt my ES age kids out of using laptops altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colossal waste. They need to ask who needs a laptop. Instead, FCPS thinks it's freaking Oprah: "YOU get a laptop! YOU get a laptop!...."

It’s easier for them to install and maintain software, updates, patches, etc. on FCPS owned laptops.

[Anonymous]

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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

The brokedick county where I went to school (where 3/5 of the school board thinks Covid was a hoax and Jan 6 was a false flag) has laptops for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would rather opt my ES age kids out of using laptops altogether.

I agree, but then I also am a Luddite who believes in printed textbooks, teaching correct spelling & grammar, and teaching cursive handwriting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would rather opt my ES age kids out of using laptops altogether.

I agree, but then I also am a Luddite who believes in printed textbooks, teaching correct spelling & grammar, and teaching cursive handwriting.

Laptops add distraction to the class.