2013-01-01, 02:10 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...roken.html
Can't decide on what's the worst part here. Is it:
The fact that the school buys one of the most fragile brands in the market for KIDS.
or
The fact that the school pays overprice for Apple products and the taxpayers have to pay for the costs. Which means those who boycott Apple would still have to pay for their products.
Quote:A school which gave out iPads to every pupil in hope of improving their education has admitted that just a year later half the costly devices have been broken.
Honywood Community Science School dished out iPad2 tablets to its 1,200 pupils a year ago, at vast cost to the taxpayer.
Despite warnings that children would not be able to look after the fragile computer tablet, the school in Coggeshall, Essex, allowed children to take the device outside the classroom, playground and street and home at evenings and weekends.
It was hoped that the iPads would be a useful learning tool, as well as keep the school up to pace with international competitors embracing the technology in the classroom.
But after just one year, more than four in ten of the iPads had been sent off for repair, after being knocked, dropped or scratched. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal 489 had to be replaced after being found to be beyond repair.
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Can't decide on what's the worst part here. Is it:
The fact that the school buys one of the most fragile brands in the market for KIDS.
or
The fact that the school pays overprice for Apple products and the taxpayers have to pay for the costs. Which means those who boycott Apple would still have to pay for their products.