Re:California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
by reaperducer on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:42PM
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Most people with jobs —even low paying jobs have newish smartphones and tablets.
As someone who occasionally has to work with the working poor, I can tell you this is completely false.
Here's one example: I work in healthcare. We can't send text messages to people about their medical conditions, etc... because a startling number of working poor families not only have only a flip phone, but that phone is shared among several families.
Let me state that again: A single flip phone will be used by eight to ten people in three or four different families.
To think that anyone with a job just has a computer/table/smartphone lying around for their kid to do his homework on is just living in a fantasy land.
Re:California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
by protomyth on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:14AM
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Yeah, I think people would be amazed by the number of people that have StraightTalk plans and phones from Walmart. A lot of $30-$50 phones paying as they go.
As someone who occasionally has to work with the working poor, I can tell you this is completely false.
Here's one example: I work in healthcare. We can't send text messages to people about their medical conditions, etc... because a startling number of working poor families not only have only a flip phone, but that phone is shared among several families.
Let me state that again: A single flip phone will be used by eight to ten people in three or four different families.
To think that anyone with a job just has a computer/table/smartphone lying around for their kid to do his homework on is just living in a fantasy land.