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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by ja27 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:04PM (#10228095)
dumb stuff

My wife was on the advisory committee for a local middle school that's struggling. One winner is that they bought SmartBoards for a bunch of classrooms but didn't get stands for them, so they just mothballed them for a year until they could buy stands with the next year's budget.

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:38PM (#10228783)
What would you have them do? If they're over budget, they're over budget and non-emergencies will have to wait.
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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by phaus on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:50PM (#10228852)
The obvious solution would be to buy fewer smart boards this year, along with the stands, and then buy the rest of the smart boards and stands the next year.
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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by nmrm2 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:29PM (#10230045)
Sure, obvious. Until you're negotiating price points and you can save X% aggregate by purchasing Y boards at a time, and then figure you're only losing <<< X%*total_cost in depreciation... then it's just as obvious, but you're making a different decision.
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