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To: brian@napa.telebit.com Cc: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu, com-priv@psi.com In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 04 Apr 91 08:59:30 -0800. Date: Thu, 04 Apr 91 13:08:14 -0500 From: Richard Mandelbaum <rma@tsar.cc.rochester.edu> I think those who comment on computers etc being pie-in the sky for the urban community in the inner city should actually go out and speak to those inner city kids and parents whom they are defending from the danger of being exposed to such things as LANS and routers. Some kids and some parents really do want their kids to take part in the 21st century. They want their kids exposed to such technology and get to use it. They suspect that such knowledge might help their kids out in the future. i think it is very patronizing to explain how the inner city kids don't need such toys. Perhaps they don't consider tham toys but a vital component of 21st century life. Trying to solve all the problems of the ghetto via networking is of course absurd. Trying to help some kids and expose them to a an ever more popular tool is perhaps not so absurd. At least the potential users think it is not so absurd despite the "knowledge" of the self appointed network experts. ____________________ > Yes, the [K-12 community] will need computers, LANs, and routers but they > will be provided legislation. What a concept! :-) Perhaps I am being closed-minded and urbano-centric (and per haps this is a socio-political debate that doesn't really belong on this list ). At any rate, from my vantage point of living in New York City, providing c omputers, LANs, and routers to the K-12 community seems like an absurd pie-in -the-sky goal and the people who are pushing it have absolutely no grasp of reality. . . . I'm sorry, folks, but when you look at what needs improving in inner-city K-12 school systems, I just don't see compu ters, LANs, and routers even making the list. My original comment was made tongue-in-cheek. You do have a point though. Social change is what is required. I really think that legislation will do little to help the students at the K-12 grade levels. And that comment stands regardless of whether we speak of LANs or reading primers. Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN Telebit Corporation Network Systems Architect 1315 Chesapeake Terra ce brian@napa.telebit.com Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1 100 voice (408) 745-3103 FAX (408) 734-3333
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