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My highschool is forcing the purchased/lease a laptop for $2000 for 4 years or $600 dollers/month (for 4 yeas max, the you can buy it for $1). The incoming freshmen (thankfully, thats not me) of next year, and possibly years after that.

And you can only use their computers that they give you, no others.

And the computers are shitty. They crash all the time, are slow and (a problem for me) run Windows Vista (Home Premium).

Anyway, I'm mad at them.......
I'm done now....
-JL

Which school is this?

piranha wrote:My highschool is forcing the purchased/lease a laptop for $2000 for 4 years or $600 dollers/month (for 4 yeas max, the you can buy it for $1). The incoming freshmen (thankfully, thats not me) of next year, and possibly years after that.

Let's hope such fines go towards the English department.

or math/economics...
$2000 for four years sounds a lot better than $600 per month...

$600 a month seems bloody ridiculous! What dollars is this? USD? Canadian? Australian? USD600 p/m == GBP300 p/m == MY RENT!!!

You sure you got those figures right??

These are US dollers.

Which school is this?

This is Bishop O' Dowd High School, in Oakland (Bay Area) in California.
It's a catholic high school, but I'm not really catholic, but it's not that religious. It's more like a private school that I got in to on financial aid and scholarships.

JamesM wrote:$600 a month seems bloody ridiculous! What dollars is this? USD? Canadian? Australian? USD600 p/m == GBP300 p/m == MY RENT!!!

You sure you got those figures right??

I am absolutely sure those are correct figures. But luck me, it's only for incoming freshman, so I don't have to get one.

-JL

piranha wrote:It's a catholic high school, but I'm not really catholic, but it's not that religious. It's more like a private school that I got in to on financial aid and scholarships.

Private schools are allowed to impose such rules. If their rules offend too many parents, then their business model becomes infeasible and they are forced to change. In many cases, their investors are the ones pressuring them on big decisions. Investors sometimes offer a lot of money but impose ridiculous conditions. A private school near where I grew up had a $20 million pool with a retractable roof, but crappy academic buildings.

$600/month sounds like tuition, perhaps the school is saying that one may choose to increase tuition to $600/month rather than paying $2000 up front right now for a computer.

piranha wrote:My highschool is forcing the purchased/lease a laptop for $2000 for 4 years or $600 dollers/month (for 4 yeas max, the you can buy it for $1). The incoming freshmen (thankfully, thats not me) of next year, and possibly years after that.

Can they do that? Schools in my area don't even assume you have a computer, or that you can even afford a $100 calculator. I don't live in a poor area either...

piranha wrote:And you can only use their computers that they give you, no others.

You mean you can only use their computers to do your homework? How would they know if you didn't?

This seems about as enforceable as the proposed "No Text Messaging While Driving" law.

You can only use their computers at school.

-JL

piranha wrote:You can only use their computers at school.

WTF You have to buy/lease a computer and can't even use it whereever you want?
I think nobody near where I live would have dumb ideas like that (but lately I have lost a little bit of faith in society). I also think the parents would complain like there is no tomorrow over here. But I don't really know much about private schools here...

Oh, sorry bluecode..... I phrased that badly...

The only computers you an use at school are theirs.

-JL

piranha wrote:Oh, sorry bluecode..... I phrased that badly...

The only computers you an use at school are theirs.

-JL

I went to a private school and this would go down BADLY. As in, parents just wouldn't do it. And there's nothing the school can do. Either that or the parents will override the direct debit and pay the school £1000 less for the term. I love capitalism