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jonathanrdt t1_jadfhxy wrote

My kids have computer class in jr high. Last week they were handed a printout of an html page to display a table.

They typed the text from the page into their chromebooks. The teacher gave no context, didn’t explain what html is or what it’s for, didn’t even tell them what it stood for.

Even when we do try to teach them modern things, we do it so poorly and with such unqualified instruction that the time is effectively wasted.

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Buchaven t1_jade38l wrote

They way it was laid out to me by my employer was as just such a perk. Is it a good perk? No. But that’s how they choose to look at it. Saves me about a hundred bucks every month, so it could be looked at as a tax free benefit of $1000/year or so. If one wanted to take such a point of view. Also fair to point out, I live in Canada, the land of nearly criminal mobile data rates, so that’s the major motivator for me. “Unlimited” free data.

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