Just ordered an iPhone 5
If they bypass the schools controls on a laptop given to them to use by the school and are caught doing so, they’ll be busted (and deservedly so) as all the kids sign agreements about appropriate use of laptops and abiding by school internet policy.
My opinion is that parents should do their utmost to support the use of the school given laptop for educational means only, by not doing so parents are condoning (and helping) students to stuff around in class and do everything but what they are supposed to be doing!
I agree with you again and probably did the wrong thing, but our kids know if they piss fart around in school, that they are wasting everyones time and we will make them leave school and join “the real world” Luckily they are smart enough to know that staying in school and getting a good education is the way to G-O.
I look at it that I helped them think outside the square, learn something and problem solve. 
As an employer, those are the skills I want my workers to have *
* No employees at the moment, they disrupt my “bugger it, I’m going snowboarding days”
I look at it that ya have to also have some sort of balance too!!!!!
Who doesn’t piss fart around at school or work on some occasions????? Teachers included!!!!!
This thread is getting closer and closer to PC vs Mac. It’s funny but increasing amounts of my friends are switching from Iphone to Android based phones despite swearing black and blue earlier in the piece that Iphones were the bomb , bees knees, ducks guts etc, personally I think they have been well and truly surpassed in ease of use and functionality and ppl are waking up to the shortcomings of proprietary dramas with the Iphone.
Yeah, disregarding the fact that if other manufacturer’s phones are so good, you have to wonder why some companies so desperate to copy Apple - I think these days, the major motivation for choosing Apple’s iOS devices should be their unsurpassed compatibility with other Apple products. If you don’t own any other Apple devices, the incentive to use an Apple iOS device simply isn’t as great as it used to be.
Incidentally, my comment, “Why should with kids with access to better computer equipment be forced to use inferior equipment?” isn’t “PC vs Mac” related. It’s more a critique of the (unsurprisingly) socialist aspect of such measures.
I look at it that ya have to also have some sort of balance too!!!!!
Who doesn’t piss fart around at school or work on some occasions????? Teachers included!!!!!
Yep 9 - 5 I am the most diligent of workers! Never do a thing wrong nor slack off 
The answer that question is in what I’ve already written - so that schools and education departments can attempt to maintain some level of control over what is and isn’t allowed to be used on school premises and in school times. A completely valid and worthy cause.
^ An (unsurprisingly) ideologically deluded “cause”.
If kids want to distract or be distracted, they will do just that - with or without electronic equipment. All this really does is unfairly hobble the kids of parents who have ensured their offspring are technologically savvy, in the interests of a ‘level playing field’.
Maybe could’ve done without the first sentence, Chucky?????
Anyhoo, just watched the pillar of journalism, Today Tonight on Prime!!!!!
There was a guy claimin that his battery on the iPhone 5 was shite!!!!!
Be interested to know how everyone’s goes, cause Apple have claimed better battery usage!!!!!
There was a “Shoulda bought a Samsung S3” quote right at the end by the guy, so I’m not sure how valid the whole skit was anyways?????
Maybe could’ve done without the first sentence, Chucky?????
It’s a perfectly valid response to the erroneous claim that it’s “A completely valid and worthy cause.”
If you don’t own any other Apple devices, the incentive to use an Apple iOS device simply isn’t as great as it used to be.
Exactly why i dont have an urge to grab one. I own nothing by apple so have no use in the celebrated compatibility between devices.
Maybe could’ve done without the first sentence, Chucky?????
It’s a perfectly valid response to the erroneous claim that it’s “A completely valid and worthy cause.”
Looks like more of a personal attack, rather than a valid response to me!!!!!
The rest of your post seems fine!!!!!
. . . Today Tonight
. . . I’m not sure how valid the whole skit was anyways?????
You answered your own question.
. . . Today Tonight
. . . I’m not sure how valid the whole skit was anyways?????
You answered your own question.
You must have missed the bit about it being the “pillar of journalism”?????
Maybe could’ve done without the first sentence, Chucky?????
It’s a perfectly valid response to the erroneous claim that it’s “A completely valid and worthy cause.”
Looks like more of a personal attack, rather than a valid response to me!!!!!
The Labor/Green alliance are the supreme deities of “ideologically deluded causes” - so it’s hardly “surprising” that the school laptop program falls in line with the majority of their outrageously costly, flawed schemes.
. . . Today Tonight
. . . I’m not sure how valid the whole skit was anyways?????
You answered your own question.
You must have missed the bit about it being the “pillar of journalism”?????
Nope, I was just making it perfectly clear.
. . . Today Tonight
. . . I’m not sure how valid the whole skit was anyways?????
You answered your own question.
You must have missed the bit about it being the “pillar of journalism”?????
Nope, I was just making it perfectly clear.
To the person that made the point?????