LA schools + iPads

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Leisher
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School stunned that kids use them for games and Facebook.

Their plan is to put these in their 650k students' hands...

I won't even touch the fact that most of these students are probably illegals and how many of them either don't speak English or it's their second language.

I will touch on the fact that they're giving them iPads. Way to prepare them for the real world where Apple dominates the business world. Morons.

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I'm surprised they weren't all "accidentally lost" (and then sold used on Craigslist).
District officials have said there was confusion over that issue but that it's been decided that schools will cover the cost of an iPad accidentally broken, lost or stolen, while families are on the hook for one negligently damaged.

So if a bully negligently stomps on some kids iPad, that kid's family has to pay for it? Hardly seems fair.

Their intent is nice, but the execution here is grossly incompetent. The way things are now, if they want to replace textbooks with iPads they should bolt the iPads to the desks and set them up with roaming profiles for each student to have access to their particular books.
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