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How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads

Posted by samzenpus on from the accident-waiting-to-happen dept.

First time accepted submitter Gamoid writes This past school year, the Coachella Valley Unified School District gave out iPads to every single student. The good news is that kids love them, and only 6 of them got stolen or went missing. The bad news is, these iPads are sucking so much bandwidth that it's keeping neighboring school districts from getting online. Here's why the CVUSD is considering becoming its own ISP.

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  1. What about the married students? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do they not get iPads?

  2. Irresponsible to roll them out at all... by dmomo · · Score: 1, Funny

    While quite sturdy devices, iPads are not designed for rolling. Couldn't they have just carried them out? Typical government idiocy.

  3. Completly Blindsided. by gregsmac · · Score: 3, Funny

    That is my favorite part. How could you not foresee 20,000 devices coming online affecting bandwidth? What is you and your teams job exactly?

  4. Re:Yeah, students will use bandwidth by Noah+Haders · · Score: 4, Funny

    dude, your total bs. i learned in school that linux is for nerds and virgins. MS gave us all free copies of office to use from home.