laptops

[Frances Morey]

I doubt that the textbook industry is about to lay down for the lap top 
proposal anytime soon. When I worked an election in one of the elementary 
schools it was painful to watch all the little kids packing bags full of 
books on their backs, like little turtles carrying around their shells. A 
few had them on wheels like stewardesses and they rolled behind them with an 
annoying clack-clack-clack, whenever the wheels crossed a joint in the tile 
floors. I don't know when all this book backpacking came about, homework is 
rare these days anyway, (as the teachers have little time to grade such 
assignments), but it could conceivably be that some chiropractic enabling 
act passed when no one was looking. Scoliosis, it's not just for adults 
anymore.
Frances






>From: "Fontaine Maverick" <fmaverick@austin.rr.com>
>To: "ghettolist" <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: laptops
>Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:18:31 -0600
>
>Here's something that may make this all moot:
>http://www.humanismus.com/publications/SektionIV/sld005.htm
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 3:45 PM
>Subject: Re: pet peeve of mine riles parents of students
>
>
> > Jon Ford wrote:
> >
> > > Anyway, what's wrong with carrying a giant backback around? If you 
>heft
>it
> > > right, and shift it a bit up and down as you stride along, it builds
>back
> > > and shoulder muscles, so it's like getting a workout for free.
> >
> > quote from the article:
> >
> > > On the first day of school last fall, Beth's mother, Carrie Anderson,
> > > weighed Beth's pack at 28 pounds, about 10 pounds heavier than the 15
> > > percent of a child's body weight that orthopedists offer as a 
>guideline.
> >
> > > Ms. Anderson and other parents began to press authorities to act.
> > > Meanwhile, Ms. Hale's son Joel, who says he rides his bicycle to
> > > school each day carrying 42 pounds of books,...
> >
> > as i have been told, mr. ford is 6'6" tall. so it's no skin off his
> > ass pour ainsi dire as regards heavy backpacks seeing as he is involved
> > in the racket of bulking up and dumbing down new editions of textbooks.
> > its money in the bank and he couldnt care less. what a guy!
> >


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