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Originally Posted by multiweb
Well everything this governement has subsidied or implemented has eventually come to bite us back in the arse. My daughter started yr7. Remember this laptop scheme at school? Well because the government had now pulled out of the fundings we are left with the bill to pay. It's a lease so the notebook costs $200 per quarter. I went to school and said what about I buy one for $500.00 and you keep yours. They said no. You have to go on with the program. Not an option. By the time she's finished yr 12 I'll have spent $7k on it. That is what I call a blatant rip off.
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Well, the Solar scheme is a WA state government (Liberal), the laptop one is the feds (Labour), so it doesn't matter which brand of poison you take.
In response to the lease, did you sign the lease? If not, you're not responsible. My kids' school also has laptops, and after Yr9 you can use whatever you want, so my eldest has a cast off Macbook of mine, which I replaced using salary scrifice, but the youngest has a school supplied tablet, which did cost the Earth. The lease only goes for three years, after that they ask you to replace the laptop, but as they aren't using propriety software anymore you just need a general purpose laptop. The schools IT solution to ANY problem was to reimage the laptop, if it's a Mac they can't (infact if it's just another brand/model of PC they can't), I can do that at home, I don't need to pay someone to do that for me. Some people do though and it's worthwhile having the support. YMMV.
Cheers
Stuart