Comments on: L.A. Unified uses ‘construction bonds’ to buy $500 million in iPads

By: John

John — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:41:19 +0000

California= stupid

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 18:35:40 +0000

You need to research “school reform” and see who is really behind it, and what they want. Look up the Broad Academy. Who benefits from the iPad scam? Not teachers or students. It’s Apple and the people who underwrite the bonds.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:10:53 +0000

This is what I was thinking. I give these electronic devices a two year life span in a school setting, MAX!

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Here’s the irony, the iPad has a battery that drops to 80% capacity after 1000 charges. Those are Apple’s own estimates.

If you’re using the iPad for most of the school day you’re going to need at least a charge a day, 2 if the students take them home (which they’ll have to if their text books are on there)

Once the capacity drops it makes it very hard to use the iPad in a school setting anymore. Because they can no longer make it through the day on a single charge. So one way or another the iPad will only make it 3 to 4 years even if it doesn’t get broken or stolen.

By: Ftheunions

Ftheunions — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:32:56 +0000

Rex,
Now imagine if you were to drop the 20 percent that do graduate into a high school whose standards have not been compromised by years of liberal education reform and curriculum softening. I doubt these kids could hold up well in a more rigorous environment. But the sad truth is that it’s not the kids’ fault–rather, it’s those who for years have thought it more pressing to have a child learn how to feel good than to think.

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:32:53 +0000

Over half of LAUSD students actually graduate, and at poor performing schools like Compton High it is only 20%, honest to god. I was offered a job at a Jr High feeder school to Compton HS and I was shocked the graduation rate was only 20%…..

By: Ftheunions

Ftheunions — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:12:47 +0000

Not surprised whatsoever. Part of the problem is that these administrators–both at school level and district level–have little or no real understanding of finance. Their doctorates in Education were likely void of anything with academic rigor and likely included courses on how to manage and navigate through the bureaucracy to further preserve the Education racket. The doctorates these administrators earn provide nothing more than bureaucratic validation. In their normative world, “Every child an iPad” would be the order of the day. Provide every kid an iPad and dismiss the cost as necessary. I think most readers here would agree the life of those iPads would be a year or two–a lifespan only rivaled by the typical LAUSD student’s high school career.

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:52:53 +0000

And I imagine half those I Pads will either be broke or stolen by the end of the first semester.
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This is what I was thinking. I give these electronic devices a two year life span in a school setting, MAX!

By: us citizen

us citizen — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:39:21 +0000

I have a slide rule!!! LOL

We werent allowed to use calculators either. Had to do it long hand on paper because the teacher wanted to see your reasoning on how you got the answer. I hate to say it but many coming out of school now days are pretty much useless without their Ipads. So I guess you/we are brainiacs……….:)

I love it when I go some place and the kid cant add. It’s always to my benefit.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:01:09 +0000

I think it was in Detroit, of all places.
Hondo…

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:00:01 +0000

And I imagine half those I Pads will either be broke or stolen by the end of the first semester.
Call me crazy, but I think that already happened somewhere else.
Hondo…..