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Minnesota School Issues iPad 2 To Every Student

Posted by timothy on from the boondoggle-defined dept.

tripleevenfall writes "Thanks to a federally-funded grant for magnet schools, every student at Heritage Middle School in West Saint Paul, Minnesota, now has an iPad 2." Why in my day, we had to buy our own graphing calculators — in the snow, both ways, uphill!

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  1. Re:iPads are cool and all by Microlith · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The iPad is *cheap*, its slim, it has ten hour battery life, people of all ages LOVE them, its hard to break physically (the ones I've seen at schools have cases, a netbook would be just as breakable, perhaps more so due to mass RE dropping), the software is incredible...

    Stop sucking Jobs' cock, please. Your whorishness, it is showing. Not a single one of those is justification for blowing $500 a pop on something. A total waste of goddamn taxpayer dollars.