Transition of platforms in british education 3199

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:45:08 -0400, "Micheal H. McCabe"

Well, for one thing, they mostly *do* have phones. When I lived in Indiana a couple of decades ago, they didn't, but now they are using cell phones. Here in Lancaster, they've had landline phones all along, but not in the house. They'd have a shed at the end of the lane with an answering machine, so they could respond to business calls, and some of them even answer landline phones in their stores or shops.

Kids aren't bound by the Ordnung until they join the church, and about 10% never do. There's no penalty for that; it's only when you join the church and become a backslider that you are ever shunned.

There's an outfit here that sells computers to the Amish. They are laptops, because CRTs feel too much like television, and because they generally only use battery power, not power from the grid. I buttume that they are officially using them strictly for business apps, but surely someone, somewhere, is playing Solitaire.

They aren't luddites, and they don't claim to be angels. Violating the Ordnung isn't considered a sin. They're just trying to remind themselves what matters and what doesn't.

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