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  • From: "David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Another Bill Gates escapade
  • Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 20:57:02 -0700 (PDT)


> Indeed. I have a (brilliant) friend who grew up in Southport, NC, down
> below Wilmington. His high school had like no money, period. He tells the
> story of taking a course in calculus which was taught over closed-circuit
> TV by a teacher at NCSSM. Suffice to say that a teacher on the TV is not
> the same as one in the classroom.

huh. altho it is a shame that they didn't have a qualified teacher locally,
it
is still interesting that the course was made *somehow* available.
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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Thomas Beckett wrote:

> At 07:45 PM 5/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >well, i cannot say much bad about that and i'll tell ya why;
> >
> >any support for education is fine by me. and as a weird addendum to this
> >story,
> >i add the following (which also is praising MS in some roundabout way);
>
> Yeah, it was more a matter of his poor taste in selection of schools to
> endow. But Melinda did attend there (at approximately the same time I
> did). So it is understandable.
>
> >also, it is unfortunate that such a disparity exists between schools like
> >Duke
> >and NCSSM getting these types of donations and the larger majority which
> >have little to no exposure to that stuff. the looks and comments from
> >librarians who came from some of those poorer counties around NC about
> >that technology center were very, very enlightening;
>
> Indeed. I have a (brilliant) friend who grew up in Southport, NC, down
> below Wilmington. His high school had like no money, period. He tells the
> story of taking a course in calculus which was taught over closed-circuit
> TV by a teacher at NCSSM. Suffice to say that a teacher on the TV is not
> the same as one in the classroom.
>
> TaB





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