US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning:
As students and teachers prepare for a return to in-person learning for at least some of the time this fall, many of the nation's schools are facing shortages and delays for laptops and tablets needed for online learning, an Associated Press investigation revealed.
Lenovo, HP and Dell, the nation's largest computer companies, have informed school districts that they are short nearly five million laptops.
[...] Last month, at the request of President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed sanctions on 11 Chinese companies, including Lenovo, AP reported. School administrators have asked the Trump administration to devise a solution because remote learning without laptops is impossible.
Lenovo has informed school districts of the supply chain delays and the trade controls set by the Commerce Department, which would cause another slowdown. Lenovo declined to respond to an inquiry from AP.
Have any Soylentils run into this?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 30 2020, @04:35PM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @06:30PM
There are people that really live far away from other people such that in-person education is impractical, and you have to come up with less optimal solutions for education.
In suburbia, those limitations don't exist, and the "better" areas pay for better teachers and compete for residents. Some in my extended family live in a place like that, are good woke, panicked, MSM obeying Democrats, and have children entering school. Except the teachers with their union are refusing to get back to work. It really makes me smile; they are now struggling to organize some sort of neighborhood friends group to do teaching, paying high school taxes while not getting service, yet complaining would cause cognitive dissonance as they are solidly in the upper middle "work from home" class themselves.