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By eppenoire on 5/21/2007 9:05:38 PM , Rating: 3
Children are children, no matter where they are. I spent part of my childhood growing up in a very rough, poor and uneducated part of Oregon. Very few people in the area could read and if it wasn't for my mother, I wouldn't have had an education. I have visited some of the worst hell holes on Earth and I understand how hard it is for these kids. However giving them laptops, which will be stolen and stripped for scrap, is the single dumbest idea I have heard in a while. Books can be found cheap, $100 dollars can buy a lot of used books.

I used California, as an example, because these kids have every opportunity and have failed seize it. You are right about children in third world being more receptive to education. However my point is, that a laptop is a dumb choice for an educational tool.


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