Wi-Fi School Buses Keep Kids Quiet

NYT: Karen Cator, director of education technology at the federal Department of Education, said the buses were part of a wider effort to use technology to extend learning beyond classroom walls and the six-hour school day. The Vail District, with 18 schools and 10,000 students, is sprawled across 425 square miles of subdivision, mesquite and mountain ridges southeast of Tucson. Many parents work at local Raytheon and I.B.M. plants. Others are ranchers.

February 23, 2010 at 1:23 pm - Fox News
Dateline: Vail, AZ
Dave in Oregon   February 23rd, 2010 - 1:50 pm

Seems like a pretty good idea if you can keep the kids from playing violent video games while on the buses.

Guest   February 23rd, 2010 - 1:50 pm

And how did we keep children quiet in previous eras?

I bet that in “olden times” children on buses actually read or did homework or in some way improved themselves.

With today’s Progressive Education, that is no longer true. Is this the goal of progressive education? To turn the children into wireless merons who cannot live without an antenna attached to their skulls?

Ted   February 23rd, 2010 - 1:54 pm

Can we not find a “Wi-Fi” equivalent for Congress to keep them out of mischief?

jp2feminist   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:05 pm

To “Guest”: We didn’t keep kids quiet in previous eras. Don’t you know that bus rides are nightmares for the drivers?

temple62   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:14 pm

Good whatever it takes to shut these mindless cretins up, I’m for it!

mojo   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:29 pm

Well good, now we can pipe in messages of tolerance by our Safe School Czar. But didn’t we already have this with wireless adapters?

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Maine Coast   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:34 pm

I’m all for kids keeping quiet, but it shouldn’t take wi-fi to do it. They should have been taught to shut the hell up on a bus by their parents. Kids are getting way too much internet and they’re going to lose their sense of interaction with others.

Clarification   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:34 pm

@Guest. Did you mean to type ‘morons’?

@mojo. Only if the kids’ parents have a 3g adapter for their child’s laptop. That’s not public funds. That’s the parent’s money.

Maine Coast   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:38 pm

We are doomed because this generation is too hooked on the internet, iPods, YouTube, etc. This is going the most illiterate, poorly behaved, lack of values generation in history.

jason   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:39 pm

Oh yeah, I’m sure they’re “learning”.
Why not just slip ‘em a ridalin while you’re at it?

As if they don’t get enough “screens” throughout the day.

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Cabdriver's Barber   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:44 pm

But won’t this unfairly advantage the kids wealthy enough to have laptops? Now we need to collect more taxes so we can give each kid a government-issued laptop (with a webcam in it).

CHRI$ DODD DUMPED ON   February 23rd, 2010 - 2:52 pm

“…to extend learning beyond the classroom walls…” http://www.Indoctrinate-U.com now 24/7

freedom rocks   February 23rd, 2010 - 4:06 pm

They use ritalin in our school district.

Al   February 23rd, 2010 - 6:17 pm

I couldn’t imagine spending my young life on those things. I used to play video games and watch television but even my lazy self never spent that much time infront a screen.

krighton   February 23rd, 2010 - 6:31 pm

Actually in the ‘old’ days (70s) kids used to walk around on my bus and beat the crap out of other kids

freedom rocks   February 23rd, 2010 - 6:47 pm

@krighton: the kids that got beat up are running the country now.

roger   February 23rd, 2010 - 7:44 pm

Yeah, but you gots ta gib me a computer too.

R. Lewis   February 24th, 2010 - 7:25 am

How to keep kids quiet…it’s called discipline and punishment.

Kit   February 24th, 2010 - 2:52 pm

Doing school work…?

Geez, just how naive can you be….?

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