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Kingdom Bhoy said:
I think she was meaning that poorer families have not been supplied with lap tops by the government.
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That’s right the government promised a whole load of laptops back in April and Bly about 20% have been delivered. The other problem is that families without land lines only have internet access via a mobile and often the data requirement for one on line lesson can use more than a months data. If only we had free broadband for everybody. Must admit when it was talked about in the election I thought it was a daft idea, however I can see the point now.
 
Old Timer said:
That’s right the government promised a whole load of laptops back in April and Bly about 20% have been delivered. The other problem is that families without land lines only have internet access via a mobile and often the data requirement for one on line lesson can use more than a months data. If only we had free broadband for everybody. Must admit when it was talked about in the election I thought it was a daft idea, however I can see the point now.
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Jezza 😍
 
Billericay Dichio said:
Who'd have thought the Government wouldn't live up to its promises?

They also reduced their manifesto promises on Broadband coverage. So many U-turns in 12 months. Just think what the lying coward of a PM could manage in 5 years.
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Even the government can’t magic laptops out of thin air. Blame the manufacturers for not having the foresight to realise that 2020 was going to be a pandemic year and they should have stockpiled millions of laptops for every country wanting to give their kids online education.
 
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
I haven't got a Brain.......
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Sir Lancelot said:
Even the government can’t magic laptops out of thin air. Blame the manufacturers for not having the foresight to realise that 2020 was going to be a pandemic year and they should have stockpiled millions of laptops for every country wanting to give their kids online education.
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No shortage of laptops for the last 5 months.
In fact more available in 2nd half 2020 than 2019
 
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Sir Lancelot said:
Even the government can’t magic laptops out of thin air. Blame the manufacturers for not having the foresight to realise that 2020 was going to be a pandemic year and they should have stockpiled millions of laptops for every country wanting to give their kids online education.
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They knew months ago what was going to happen. They spent more time denying hungry kids school meals than they did procuring laptops and fulfilling a promise.
 
It's good that the mobile companies are offering free data for lessons. Hopefully that helps those who need it.
 
Hansel said:
It was hard to buy laptops in the spring and early summer. More should have been done since then
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Yeah - we got through the last school closures with a really ancient desktop PC that just about ran software and one of the kids on my laptop. When the kids started back in September I bought them both chromebooks knowing that if the schools closed again there would be a run on people buying budget laptops for the kids. Thank fuck I did.

But even then - the school are setting worksheets which need printing (and ink - again we'd stockpiled cartridges at least) and asking the kids to photograph their work - which requires a decent camera on a tablet or phone... and the video calls to check the kids are all still alive require a webcam and microphone (if you're using an ancient desktop like we did last time around you might not have those)... and a decent internet connection. It's an endless list of assumptions without which the entire house of cards comes tumbling down.
 
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