[citation][nom]vir_cotto[/nom]It might save the school district some money if they switch everything to electronic books.It would definitly save money if they made books for some colleges courses electronic, www.uspirg.org and www.studentpirgs.org say the average yearly cost of text books is $900. As for the replacement of damaged Ipad2's It would make sense to me that it would cost the parents, would definitely make the parents want to teach their kids responsibility(unless they spoil their children). Of course there are cheaper alternatives than an Ipad 2, but it's not our decision to make hopefully it works out well for them and maybe even help the kids become more tech saavy.[/citation]
Well, that would be true. As long as the publisher of the books doesn't know that your going to try to turn into a computer/ebook based school (instead of textbook based).
I know, the school im currently attending (Whale Branch early college high school) is computer based school that opened up this past fall. The school district tried to have the school near textbook free (just keeping a few book incase a student didn't have a computer with them for some reason) but when the books publishers heard that were trying to have all the books computer based, they Jacked up the price to make textbooks cheaper. So while we have computers, we also have heavy text books to carry around with us. (greedy companies. Try to nickel and dime even school districts)
As for kindergartners having ipads in general. I say that just way to young. Heck 15% of the students in my school (out of about 500 students) dont even take care of there laptops and these are HIGH SCHOOL kids.
I cant even think how many ipads a kindergartners will go though.....