School Taxes in Hanover

I just recently found out that all the students at Richmond Middle School got an iPad each. Does anyone else think that is ridiculous? Thats at least 400 dollars per iPad, not including the cases and whatever protective and technical services they also pay for. And according to previous students at RMS, there are about 500 students. Roughly that could add up to a quarter of a million dollars. Does that seem at all realistic? This is just at the middle school! This year in the high school (from what I saw) we got a massive MacBook pro cart with roughly 30 laptops. Once again, each one is $1200 which comes out to $36,000. Why would we ever need that many laptops in one cart when about 80% of the student population has their own device? That money could easily be allocated to much more valuable resources or even helping out the seniors with our class trip/prom/all-night party. Basically, the Dresden District is run by a bunch of blind nitwits that get roused when someone bring up the notion of buying more gadgets. Be smarter about what you buy! We have internet that doesn't even run fast enough for me to write on GoogleDocs. The tech department gets upset because most of the internet is used on youtube and music streaming but guess what video streaming for just four websites (Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Video, and Hulu) make up 53% of all the internet used in the world.

Lets be realistic and stop trying to make our school something its not. Stop buying gadgets and give us internet.



http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/video-accounts-53-percent-internet-655203

our school turned into a pig sty

I can't stand the fact that there are police in the school. Not only do they do nothing but intimidate students, waste tax dollars, and eat all the donuts from the caf, but they also are wasting their own time. Shouldn't they be out in hanover protecting the citizens, instead of standing around in our atrium and chatting with the administration? There is honestly no reason for them to be here, hanover has never had a school shooting, or any problem that needed police assistance, and i dont see how that will happen in the near future. Why would we need to institute a police presence other then to make the administration look more powerful? that i believe is why they are here. all in all, they need to leave, and soon, they are simply hurting the overall feeling of the school, and waste everyones money and time.
ben fiering

My Opinion on Homework & School

At this point, its obvious that any student in my position has been doing homework for about 12 years. For about 4 years now I have had a very specific view on homework that I have felt very passionate about. The core of my "position" or theory is that school should be just like a job. If we can call students "part time" or "full time" just like we would call someone working a part time or full time job then shouldn't they be the same? If schools are adopting a full/part-time views on being at school then we should make school just like a job. When you leave the campus then your work is done there. Just like when you are done with work and you go home and enjoy free time, school should be the same.

Homework should be made obsolete on that basis that we should do our leaning in school and in class not at home. Local tax dollars go to the school in order for them to educate the minds of our young. Education is defined as the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction or an enlightening experience. I feel strongly against the idea that students should be teaching themselves to any capacity because otherwise we should just teach ourselves completely and rule out schools. If we are paying a school and its faculty to educate students, why are we sending them home with assignments and readings? I am in no way trying to demean the work that teachers do but over time society has created this stigma that schools are expect to give students extra work out of school. The only work we should do outside of school is work we cannot get finished in school and studying. There should be a bigger emphasis on study halls, efficiency in school and hobbies in our free time.