{"id":21718,"date":"2011-01-04T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21718"},"modified":"2011-01-04T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:22:43","slug":"pawn-shop-stimulus-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21718","title":{"rendered":"Pawn shop stimulus in Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Trooper sent us a link to Detroit public school’s 40,000 laptops<\/a> to be injected into the economy thanks to your tax dollars and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.<\/p>\n

That’s what under-educated kids need – their own computer to abuse. It seems to me that a kid who can’t read or write is just fascinated by the flashing lights and sounds that emanate from the computer. Garbage in, garbage out. I guess that’s why I’m not a teacher. <\/p>\n

It’s funny how I figured out how to use this blasted machine with my public school education. I’ll bet most of you did the same without a minute in a classroom. The difference between us and them is that our teachers weren’t distracted by machinery that would cover up their shortcomings.<\/p>\n

The closest thing to a computer I ever touched was one of those high-tech IBM Selectric typewriters in my typing class (Ronnie Stirpe and I were the only guys in the class, that’s why we took it…and the reason it was the only class I failed in high school).<\/p>\n

Oh, where do the pawn shops come in? Well, a Detroit TEACHER tried to pawn her computer<\/a> right before Christmas;<\/p>\n

The DPS Office of the Inspector General investigation said Karen Drysdale-Oriucci, a DPS teacher since 1994, went to American Jewelry and Loan on Greenfield Road on Wednesday to pawn the netbook computer she received from the district on Dec. 17.<\/p>\n

Store staff refused to pay the teacher for the netbook \u2013- which is engraved with the DPS \u201cI\u2019m In\u201d logo on its cover -\u2013 instead confiscating it and contacting DPS officials.<\/p>\n

Drysdale-Oriucci was suspended Thursday with pay, pending a disciplinary hearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup she received it on December 17th and busted her ass getting to the nearest pawn shop. Now she’s suspended WITH PAY. Think this will slow down the district’s plan to hand out 40,000 more computers and peripherals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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