How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads

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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Re:Yeah, students will use bandwidth

[Anonymous Coward]

Get them hooked on locked-down proprietary software. DRM is okay. Not being able to modify or look at the source is normal and okay. Being denied learning opportunities in an 'educational' environment is okay.

This just proves the government is bought and paid for by corporations. Even the 'educational' system is screwed.

Re:Mission creep.

[BitZtream]

The iPads don't seem to be useful if they're not connected

These aren't android devices that are required to be tethered to Google every waking instant to be useful.

iBooks alone with textbooks instead of physical text books, so the students aren't carrying 20 pounds of dead trees everywhere, is alone enough of a reason to do this.

Clearly they underestimated the bandwidth usage, thats kind of the point of the story, but go ahead and not read the story and tell us how they fucked it up without you actually having any clue at all.

I'm not sure you're aware of it, but not everything actually requires a constant Internet connection to function. Working offline is pretty common in the normal world, again, if you aren't on Android which does everything it can to keep you tethered to Google.