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th, 2010 at 8:11am:
Does not compute - school laptops stolen or broken Bruce McDougall and Gemma Jones From: The Daily Telegraph December 28, 2010 12:00AM 15 commentsIncrease Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrintEmail Share
Add to DiggAdd to del.icio.usAdd to FacebookAdd to KwoffAdd to MyspaceAdd to NewsvineWhat are these?ALMOST 10,000 warranty claims have been made on public school laptop computers distributed to NSW students and teachers under the Digital Education Revolution.
Data provided by the Department of Education and Training also shows 588 laptops were reported lost or stolen by October 26 this year, just 15 months after the laptop rollout began.
One student - robbed of his laptop as he walked home from Plumpton High School in November 2009 - was offered counselling. Some schools have had a staggering number of claims:
* HENRY Kendall High School in Gosford has sent 109 computers back for repairs;
* NEARBY Narara Valley High School has made 78 claims; and
* IN Sydney, The Forest High School in Frenchs Forest has had 75 claims while Rooty Hill has had 70.
Since the start of the distribution of laptops, almost 130,000 computers have been given to children while about 20,000 have been given to teachers.
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A department spokesman said faulty hinges on the 2009 model chosen for students and screen problems with the 2010 model contributed to the claims.
"The number of missing laptops is under the expected range of attrition," he said.
"A pool of laptops has been provided to ensure there are spare laptops for new enrolments and short-term loans pending repair of broken devices."
Another 62,000 computers will be given to Year 9 students next year. Students are required to sign a "user agreement" promising not to misuse or mistreat new laptops and parents must also sign a charter about their child's internet use.
The State Government said it planned for up to 13,000 computers being lost or damaged.
If this is about a big financial concern - then the predicted
new Liberal state government will pick up the bill with proceeds from;
"...The lung cancer factor. The Liberals are taking money from Big Tobacco whose clear aim is to addict a thousand 13-year-olds a week to this carcinogen with Barry O’Farrell’s assistance (nicer packaging, fewer anti-smoking commercials, more visible cigarettes in corner groceries), and wheezy, pudgy, puffy O’Farrell’s policy of shortening thus the lives of children will be a hard sell against the healthy, bicycling mother of two, Kristina Keneally, and young parents especially will swing their vote to Labor on this alone..."
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/42654.html Gillard sledges tobacco donations, pockets $2m from pokies giants
Ciggies back, but pokie addiction remains
Lovely to hear Julia Gillard ripping into the Liberals today for accepting big tobacco donations. This would be the same Julia Gillard who yesterday visited a distribution centre owned by Woolworths, Australia's biggest pokies operator with 12,000 machines. Woolies donated $20,000 to the ALP in 2008-09, but that was just the start of Labor's pokies industry donations. Clubs NSW gave Labor $85,000 in 2008-09 and $203,000 in 2007-08. Then you have the Australian Hotels Association which gave more than $200,000 in 2008-09 alone, not to mention the party's own Canberra Labor Club which handed over more than $1 million in the first two years of the Rudd-Gillard government.
Given Australian has the lowest smoking rate in the world and the highest gambling rate in the world, it seems hard to fathom why Labor treats these two “sin industries” so differently when it comes to political donations – Stephen Mayne, independent anti-pokies Senate candidate
http://www.maynereport.com/articles/2010/08/03-1057-2600.html
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