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I don't see the harm. Every kid gets computer lab time at school. Teaching them to log on, check and respond to e-mail is as basic a task today as was teaching someone how to use a telephone was 100 years ago.

Maybe, just maybe, it is a ruse to get students to visit public libraries which have free computers.

Then again, maybe not.

Now if the intention is for all students to have a computer at home, I guess we all need to loosen our purse strings to pay for home computers and connection fees for some?/all? GCS students.

But don't worry. You'll never know that's what you're paying for, because those additional costs will be buried somewhere in a future (but not too distant future) school bond.

With many households choosing cell phones (including those ubiquitous blue tooths) over land lines, no need to suggest that dial-up through a telephone company would be workable.

Maybe a better idea would be to appeal to Time Warner Cable to add a surcharge to current subscribers of Road Runner so that the connection cost can be painlessly spread around.

Perhaps a purveyor of computers would step forward to furnish computers to GCS students. Dell comes to mind and it's a "local" (sort of) company.

The possibilities are endless, but aren't they always when someone else is going to pay for "it" -- whatever "it" is.