LA School Officials Admit iPad Plan Was Unaffordable and Distracting
23rd February 2015
Ramon Cortines, the new superintendent, recently admitted that the district’s billion-dollar idea to buy every single student an iPad, Chromebook, or laptop was never affordable or practical in any sense—and in fact clashed with more urgent priorities, like procuring suitable textbooks and rebuilding infrastructure.
Yeah, that was a winner: Giving a $600 device to kids whose reaction would be “I wonder how much I can hock this for?”
Prediction: Nobody loses his job, nobody goes to jail. Your tax dollars at work.