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I'm merely stating that $200,000 spent strictly on iPads for kindergartners in the middle of a budget crisis is fucking stupid as hell.
You really bit hard on the media twisting the story. The article starts: "All children in a Maine school district" but then only focuses on the youngest kids in an attempt to fool people in to thinking all that money was going into 5 year olds.
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especially when you're not loaning them out, but giving them out.
Despite the phrasing in the article they are not giving the ipads to kids. This same district had a similar program for middle school kids, and many of those ipads are still in use in the high school.
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I'm sure tablets are super useful, but right now, I don't see them surpassing textbooks and library computers with internet access enough to justify being costlier.
They've already surpassed textbooks. Now that there is a slightly higher profile market and a trend towards this kind of stuff in the classroom, more publishers will produce interactive textbooks. Ipads already connect to wifi, and frankly there isn't much you need a computer for if everyone has an ipad.
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Superintendent is a putz. I wonder what form his kickback comes in.
This isn't the first program of it's type the district has done, and apparently the first one showed positive results. Damn him for wanting school children to do better, that greedy son of a bitch is only in it for the money, if only some private business would take over then they'd only be in it for the...I mean...oh wait.