"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:03:37 -0800, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> OK, you would probably be devastated if FB went down - I geddit.
>>
>> "ChattyCathy" > wrote
>>> You can't be serious? How any school could 'legally' require that of
>>> parents/guardians is beyond me. They might have suggested it, but I
>>> cannot see it being a 'requirement'.
>>
>> Why can you not think this? They are also required to have computers and
>> Internet access.
>
> I live in South Africa... that's why.
>
> Take a look at this:
>
> http://www.internetworldstats.com/africa.htm#za
>
> or this:
>
> http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadb...-africa-2.html
>
> <quote>
>
> Some of the performance indicators in 'The State of Broadband 2013'
> report include:
>
> 1. South Africa ranked at number 111 out of 183 countries on fixed
> broadband penetration (2.2%)
>
> 2. South Africa ranked at number 62 out of 170 countries on mobile
> broadband penetration (26%)
>
> 3 South Africa ranked at number 44 out of 128 countries on the percentage
> of households with Internet (25.5%)
>
> 4. South Africa ranked at number 92 out of 192 countries on the percentage
> of Individuals using the Internet (41%)
>
> </quote>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy

Ah, well here pretty much everything is online now. The schools in this
district went bookless a few years ago and everything is online. They do
keep some books for hardship cases that have no access at all to a computer
at home. Computers are available in the libraries but we don't have good
bus service here so that's not always an option either. I guess the books
were just getting too expensive and they seem to come out with new ones
every few years. They would only have to pay once for the online book.
Then the students are all given the log in code.

Homework is often turned in online too at a website called turnitin.com.
That way they can require stuff to be turned in on the weekends.