School iPads to cost nearly $100 more each, revised budget shows

[kiva]

41. As the one who started the thread let me say

that you are wrong.

The points - more than one - of the thread are:

1. To point out the LA school district is spending millions to give tablets to students and teachers despite the fact that there is no reliable evidence that this will help students learn (OK, this was a subtle point).

2. That whoever sourced the tablets was either stupid or lied to about the cost.

3. That even if the tablets were available at cheaper cost, the districts had not factored in other costs - the security/charging carts and the keyboards, for example.

4. That parents have no idea what their responsibility is for the tablets, which translates to the fact that if the tablets are damaged, lost, stolen, pawned (as they were in Las Vegas), or otherwise no longer available to the schools, the school district (i.e. the taxpayers) will be responsible for replacements.

Paranoid Apple fans didn't enter into my decision to post, but hey, I'll keep it in mind for the next article.