India Rejects One Laptop per Child Program 374
ex-geek writes "Seems like Negroponte's One Laptop per Child program has been
rejected by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India. Among the objections are concerns about the effect of extensive laptop use on children's health. Better uses for the monies, which would be required to roll out the OLPC project, are also named. Most insightful however is the observation that not one industrial country has so far implemented a similar program for its children, which casts doubt as to what the pedagogical use for notebooks in class really is."
Re:Passing the buck (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MS counter move (Score:1, Funny)
Health reasons? (Score:2, Funny)
Reduce the population first (Score:4, Funny)
Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Sex Ed.
Re:Passing the buck (Score:4, Funny)
Though before that gains any momentum they'll probably need to complete their "one functioning missile" campaign.
Re:Nigeria accepts OLPC (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nigeria accepts OLPC (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Passing the buck (Score:4, Funny)
Seems like you have a good, decent and very solid Kansas education.
One missile per child? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Passing the buck (Score:2, Funny)
that would explain some of the outsourced code I've seen on thedailtwtf.com
Re:Nigeria accepts OLPC (Score:1, Funny)
ourselfs? (Score:3, Funny)
David
Re:Passing the buck (Score:3, Funny)
I guess you didn't know that male pattern baldness, and impotence didn't exist before wireless telegraphy came along, didn't you?