Apple iPads To Be Given To Kindergarten Students
Parents in Ashburnham, Massachusetts are questioning a school proposal to buy 150 new Apple iPads for children in kindergarten. The idea is for the school district to purchase 150 iPads for children to use in class. Parents would be given the option to lease them for 25 dollars a month for two years. At the end of the two year term, the parents would own them. I’m not sure giving 150 5-year-olds a $600 tablet PC is a good idea. The money to pay for the tablet computers would come out of funds earmarked for leasing desktop computers, so I guess the students wouldn’t be using any PCs at school other than the tablets.
The superintendent, Dr. Michael Zapantis, says it’s still a work in progress. He says the 20-25 thousand dollars to pay for these would come from already existing funds that currently go toward leasing desktop computers. “We still may be working out some of the details budgetarily so that folks who cannot afford it will still have access to be able to take some of those iPads home,” said Dr. Zapantis. So why kindergarteners? He says the idea is to start with the youngest kids, then eventually move up to the higher grades.
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