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My parent are B&^%*&^%(*&%*&%$*^%$*&^%

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Aod

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:26 am

My parent are B&^%*&^%(*&%*&%$*^%$*&^%

you wanna know why right?
course you do!
i'm dispraxic (sp) so i cant write very well
becuse of this i need a laptop in school so
i can do my work and be able to read it. Untill
recently i had the IBM which was fine, but as
Taw will know, it died, spectacularly. In this i
have been "laptopless" for some time now and
my school work is starting to degrade (duh)!

so 2 weeks ago my Best friend Ant (co-founder of my website)
who is also dyspraxic got a laptop for £600, which is CHEAP
for a good laptop. which by the way has:
2.2Ghz Celery (celeron)
40Gb HD
128Mb ram
integrated Radeon 9000 64Mb graphics card
and other laptoply stuff.

so i approched my parents and asked about it
and they said "we really cant afford it right now"

to this i was somewhat satisfied untill my mom
accidenly let slip that
(1)she had bought a car that she didnt need
(2)she had turned down the car

so i said to them if you had enough money to buy the car
then howcome now that you returned the car (that cost £1500)
you cant by me a laptop.
to this my parents replied with "...................."
and told me to go away.

then on sunday they come home and say to me and my
sister, "we bought a pair of new sofas"
to this i exploded "we dont need a new pair of sofas"
and they once again replied with "......................."
shourted at me abit for nagging and shooed me away

do you think thats fair?



Centurai

Edited by - Aod on 1/12/2004 9:44:29 AM

RILMS

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:33 am

No, it's not fair. And rather appaling!!

Life: No one gets out alive.

Recusant

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:37 am

Do you necessarily need a 2.2 GHz laptop with a Radeon 9000 in it, just to type with? Surely you could get one even cheaper? (You could save any money left over for decent PC upgrades)

Aod

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:43 am

i could find no laptop cheaper that was capable of running office!



Centurai

gromit

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:53 am

Aod have your parents seen any written evidence from your teachers/head of school to show that it would be beneficial if you worked on a laptop at school? Are there any kinds of "grants" that you may be able to get to help them? They may not consider your laptop to be of great urgency and therefore are carrying on buying items that they seem worthy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending them, its just that I'm trying to understand why this may be happening without jumping to the conclusion that they're just bad parents.

Can you get your teachers or your friend's parents to talk to them and maybe suggest that a laptop is the way to go? I'm sure that if other adults were leaning on them they would reconsider...

freighter fighter

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:59 am

you dont need a 2.2 gig monster to use office..

Aod

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:05 am

@grom yes my parents have seen my writing and
severall letters from teachers who couldnt read my
exams at all so gave me U's (U=either unacceptabe/not done)

@ff no but any cheaper laptops cant, ie this one happens to be 2.2Ghz but anything less than £600 either dont exist or is incapable of running office



Centurai

Gowserpaul

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:27 am

@AoD your parents are a bit mean by not letting you have one, my parents would gladly buy me a laptop if they thought that it would help me with my school work

Chips

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:41 am

Okay - if your english - the you should in fact be able to get support from the school. The teachers should be aware, and CATER to YOUR NEEDS - hell, if i had to go through doing all that during training - then you should receive it from your teachers. If they AREN'T offering support - then i suggest you complain to the school about it. Ask the departments what provisions they are providing for you, and how they intend to monitor its effectiveness. As it is - considering you use a laptop (which indicates its a rather severe level) - then they should have you registered on the school SEN register - and therefore there will be a SEN officer with your details. Of course - if its NOT severe enough to be on there, then talk to the teachers, tell them the problems and they should at least TRY to do what they can for you.

Of course - if your not english - then i have just typed all that out for nowt >

Aod

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:47 am

sorry chips English is my First language

freighter fighter

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:47 am

pah, i have dyspraxia as well, it didnt even get acknowledged till i was in the final part of year 6, so i go off to a grammer school, and they refuse to give me ANY help, there reason was i was to clever to need it.

so i was pulled out of school and taught at home.

Aod

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:52 am

@ff
pah, i have dyspraxia as well, it didnt even get acknowledged till i was in the final part of year 6, so i go off to a grammer school, and they refuse to give me ANY help, there reason was i was to clever to need it.


nearly the same as me exept i was acnowledged in year 5
there are *cough* laptops *cough* at school but they cant copy/paste
or draw tables or anything really exept store 8 files of stuff
and they dont even print properly!



Centurai

Edited by - Aod on 1/12/2004 10:53:27 AM

Nickless V2

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:19 am

Things like this are to easily neglected and I think a lot of people have these problems without knowing it, they just think they're stupid or something, wich isn't fair.

I agree with whoever said it: Ask the man in charge of the school (dunno the name ) to write your parents a note and perhaps a copy of a test you took, if that's possible at all, or if you want that.
That tends to leave a greater impression on people then their kids' opinion. They'll dismiss your request probably as nagging or something like that.

I'm sure there's someone at school you can discuss this with.

I think parents shouldn't lie to their kids and especially not about something as sensitive as this.

Hope it works out for you AoD.

Edit: Damn spelling.

- I'm not crazy, I'm a car. And if you don't believe me, you can get out and walk home. -

Aod

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:12 pm

ok get this (especially taw) my dad
took the IBM to the techies at GSK
and so he comes back saying that they
said that the KEYBOARD was broken,
yes i'm sure that a keyboard will cause
a boot failiure, when i grow two heads,
that is (thinly veiled sarcasm)

i'm enraged that my parents are lying to me, being stuck up B^%$&£ds and
then giving me a half working laptop that can run windows less well than
a glass of water!
i mean its so slow that it takes half an hour to log on!
it runs NT4 as well as asking a amstrad to run XP

even then i cant even do anything on it because its locked down cause its company (GSK) property, so no installations or anything just what's on it!

then it takes up so much battery power, it lasts like 45 minutes
i say, its a POC (Piece Of C**p)

i just wanna chuck it out the window and say it was stolen, Heyyyyyyy..........
awwww it'll never work!

ME furious now, mmmmuuuussstttt Brrreeeaaaakkkk Sooommmtthhiiiinnngg



Centurai

Tawakalna

Post Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:20 pm

actually on some older laptops a keyboard can cause boot issue because you used to have to use combination keystrokes to enter setups, and if the keys get stuck or the system thinks they're "on" if the typematic rubbish is kakke, then funny things can happen. But yours is knacked good and proper I reckon. if yer dad's techies are anything like me and my boys, they prob weren't interested and just fobbed him off with some excuse unless he grovelled or crossed their palms with silver, because we like to make people suffer.

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