MCPS accepting donations to purchase chrome books

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Anonymous wrote:It was nice to see all the parents with 2020 vehicles, Mercedes, and Porsche etc. picking up their chromebooks..

This is what I saw at the elementary school across the street.

Call me crazy but why is this a problem? Public education means it's free for everyone.

yes, but do those folks not have a computer at home, if they are driving newish expensive cars? Or are they just being greedy?

They might not have one device per child.

I guess that would make sense. But one would think that someone who is willing to spend $60K+ on a car would be willing to spend $300 for a chromebook for each child.

We don't drive super expensive cars, and we have multiple home laptops/computers that the kids can use. They are not new, but they suffice.

I'm assuming that many who are working from home also use work laptops. Some of course might be using home laptops. But, it's hard to believe that people who can afford super expensive cars can't afford to go out and get an extra chromebook for $300.

PP, we don't know the circumstances or the reasons why people went and got Chromebooks. Nor do we need to. MCPS offered them for people to come and get, and people came and got them.

Actually, it was for kids who do not currently have one and NEED one. If a parent can buy a 100k dollar car, they absolutely can afford to buy a $189 Chromebook for their kids.

Or they could when they bought their car. Which might not realistically reflect their current income.

[Anonymous]

The arguments here are weird. MCPS is not "giving" out Chromebooks. They are loaning them, and taking ID numbers, they expect them to be returned.
They also said you need one device per child. We have 3 children and only one device. So we borrowed two from the school.

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Anonymous wrote:The arguments here are weird. MCPS is not "giving" out Chromebooks. They are loaning them, and taking ID numbers, they expect them to be returned.
They also said you need one device per child. We have 3 children and only one device. So we borrowed two from the school.

We borrowed too. It looks like the people who keep on shaming others for picking up chromebooks when they can afford to buy one don't understand that it is a loan. By their warped logic, if we can afford to buy a book, we should not borrow from a library either.

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They set up a donation page because parents were offering to donate.

There is no shame in borrowing a communal resource that is paid by communal taxes. It is no worse than using the library to borrow books (except on DCUm some folks need to flex on us by buying a lot off books on Amazon

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Anonymous wrote:It was nice to see all the parents with 2020 vehicles, Mercedes, and Porsche etc. picking up their chromebooks..

You guys are like crabs in a barrel.

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Anonymous wrote:The arguments here are weird. MCPS is not "giving" out Chromebooks. They are loaning them, and taking ID numbers, they expect them to be returned.
They also said you need one device per child. We have 3 children and only one device. So we borrowed two from the school.

We borrowed too. It looks like the people who keep on shaming others for picking up chromebooks when they can afford to buy one don't understand that it is a loan. By their warped logic, if we can afford to buy a book, we should not borrow from a library either.

This.