Computers For Schools 2007

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Posted by: Eddie2sox Tuesday 6th March 2007, 10:00pm
Last edited 06/03/2007 10:00pm by Eddie2sox

If you don't collect the vouchers for computers, would you consider collecting them and I will gladly take them off your hands....

I did ask this question in an earlier thread, but thought it worth repeating. If you don't collect them, PLEASE start!

For schools this is literally "money for nothing"....and all you have to do is say one word...."yes".....when the checkout staff ask you if you're collecting. Not a lot of effort involved is there? I'm not extolling anyone to spend twice as much each week, just to say "Yes" instead of "No".

In the previous blog entry, a commenter (Davina) replied thus:

Tesco Coupon Con

Tesco coupons for schools.
It requires a total spend of £250,000 yep a cool quarter million to collect enough coupons for a basic personal computer.

Don't encourage the greedy dirty trick sods - put you coupons in an envelope addressed to "stick you swindling promotion up your jacksee" c/o Tesco PR and hand them in to the Customer Service desk.

I'd like to say to Davina, if you feel that way, then feel free to return your own vouchers to customer services, and while you're at it enclose your own bad attitude in the same envelope. It sounds like you may have some grievance against large corporations, which is of course entirely up to you. However, if you're going to picket Tesco, spray graffiti all over a Shell petrol station, or, most importantly, firebomb MacDonalds, please do it after Saturday tea-time as I will be taking Sam for his two-monthly MacDonalds treat at that time.

However, mildly concerned about what Davina said, I decided to ask the IT Co-ordinator at a King's Lynn primary school what her opinion was about the Tesco scheme. This is what I received back:

"Last year we received 6 digital movie cameras, software to run them, a big keys keyboard, and some glittery letters. Since they arrived in October, we have made our own films, stop motion animation shorts, documentaries, and some visual dictionaries for children who have English as an Additional Language. Most of my children have delayed written linguistic development and these cameras mean that they can express creativity and imagination without having to worry about the punctuation, spelling and handwriting. The big keys keyboard has meant that one of our visually impaired pupils can access specialist software. The glittery letters have encouraged children to make words, to play with letters, to explore sounds and so on.

My view is that no one does extra shopping just to get the vouchers - the vouchers are an extra to the shopping, therefore the items received by the collecting of them are free. I am the ICT Co-ordinator, and it took me several hours to select the right items from the catalogue, and we (for a smallish school) did really well."

Please collect the vouchers, they WILL go to good use!

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