BY JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN PARIS, IL. (ECWd) – PRESS RELEASE: Not only do all Paris District 95 students get free lunch, now they’re getting free laptops! Superintendent Dr. Jeremy Larson applied and received a grant for the laptops through E2E Exchange (government e-rate funding). Students at Memorial and Wenz Elementary, as well as
BY JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) –
PRESS RELEASE:
Not only do all Paris District 95 students get free lunch, now they’re getting free laptops!
Superintendent Dr. Jeremy Larson applied and received a grant for the laptops through E2E Exchange (government e-rate funding).
Students at Memorial and Wenz Elementary, as well as Mayo Middle School received theirs last night.
Laptops are available for any student in the district in preschool through 12th grade.
Parents must fill out required paperwork and turn it in to receive the laptops.
On Friday (August 20th), Paris High School students may pick their laptops up from 3pm-5pm at 300 South Eads.
Media is invited to attend the Friday evening giveaway.
Please arrive early!
The line to get into the entrance was backed up to the highway on Wednesday evening.
(Pictures are attached and parents have given permission for them to be released).
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Dave H
Posted at 08:19h, 19 August
ReplyThis is how you get a top-down dictatorship in education. These people should all be fired.
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kathiann
Posted at 09:43h, 19 August
ReplyThis looks like everyone, school districts included, is being drawn tighter into the web of government control….
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Tracey Baker
Posted at 10:50h, 19 August
ReplyNothing is ever “free”. The Government got that money somewhere and it cost the schools money to get the paperwork in and distribute the laptops.
It is nice the kids get (hopefully a nonintrusive) learning devise. -
Greg G
Posted at 11:27h, 19 August
ReplyFree everything for everyone!
Paid for by the few of us still paying taxes!
Keep electing the same people to these school boards, You only have yourself to blame!
Pay your property taxes under protest! -
Dennis Finegan
Posted at 12:23h, 19 August
ReplyLet me get this straight, it is better to live in ignorance than to be given free Internet access via a government computer. Makes perfect sense to me.
Dave H
Posted at 08:19h, 19 August
Reply
This is how you get a top-down dictatorship in education. These people should all be fired.
kathiann
Posted at 09:43h, 19 August
Reply
This looks like everyone, school districts included, is being drawn tighter into the web of government control….
Tracey Baker
Posted at 10:50h, 19 August
Reply
Nothing is ever “free”. The Government got that money somewhere and it cost the schools money to get the paperwork in and distribute the laptops.
It is nice the kids get (hopefully a nonintrusive) learning devise.
Greg G
Posted at 11:27h, 19 August
Reply
Free everything for everyone!
Paid for by the few of us still paying taxes!
Keep electing the same people to these school boards, You only have yourself to blame!
Pay your property taxes under protest!
Dennis Finegan
Posted at 12:23h, 19 August
Reply
Let me get this straight, it is better to live in ignorance than to be given free Internet access via a government computer. Makes perfect sense to me.