Reduced prices for blood and tear stained models?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/busine...

Joy M - if people don't want their kids riding the bus for a long time everyday they should not move to a rural area. Kids have been riding the buses for hours ever since they quit walking to their rural school over hill and dale. It's amazing that people move out to the middle of nowhere and then have the guts to complain about that.

This is the school district that closed a rural school due to dropping enrollment. It was not a good use of taxpayer dollars to keep 2 schools open for the number of students that could easily be served in one building. Maybe if this school district is able to be competetive in educating its students, its enrollment will grow instead of shrink.
Please don't get me wrong, I don't personally support the purchase of items built in Chinese sweatshops that pad the pockets of tech companies and their shareholders. I don't own any of those devices. HOWEVER, any school that doesn't integrate technology into its curriculum is not preparing their students to participate in the world. And iPad computers take up less space than providing a desktop PC to these students. If you want to know more access badgerlink.net, go to the Academic Search Premier database and search technology and education.

They must get to keep them for 180 days at least.
What happens when they get broke? and they need a new one? What about stolen?
Who maintains them? and at what cost?
Maybe they get to keep one for the whole time...5 years?
What happens when they need to be upgraded?

They must get to keep them for 180 days.
What happens when they get broke? and they need a new one? What about stolen?
Who maintains them? and at what cost?

pasta,
Please enlighten me. Do you know?

jcommon do you think they get to keep those iPads?

I wonder how much is spent on books every year. One i-pad or six $100 books. Sounds like wise spending to me.

Keep up the sarcasm pasta.
There are 2285 public schools in WI.
880 thousand students.
Parkview is spending 144 per student on Ipads.
Times that by 880,000. That is 126 MILLION dollars if every student in Wisconsin had to have one. That isn't sustainable. Someone is making Apple some money. You liberals are always crying about corporate subsidies and welfare, what do you call this?

intrigued - unless I am mistaken, this is the same school district that closed small rural gradeschools due to budget shortfalls, thereby forcing small children to ride the bus for 45 minutes each way, which is exhausting and not a way to keep the students' achievement competitive. I just would like to know where the money came from.

Pssst....jcommon, I bet the teachers wanted iPads to help boost Apple stock and their lavish pensions. You know, it's all about the bennies after all.

Why don't you explain it to us intrigued?

Anybody who doesn't get why this is important is not paying attention to the world. Good for this little school district for trying to keep their kids competitive.

Well,
I think you need to ask yourself who is benefiting the most from something like this? Seems to me, Apple and all the stockholders are gaining just as much as what the students are. Come on people start using that thing in your head called a brain.

Isn't this the same school district that had to close schools because they didn't have the money to keep them open?

Truth be told, this community needs to support the education of our kids. It is in the best interest of thier future. Doesn't matter what we had to do when we were in school. Its a different world. We should be concentrating on building a new high school! One that is properly equipped to educate our kids for the future and not the past!

Giving out gifts is competing?
So maybe other schools should offer free cars for drivers ed?

Open enrollment forces schools to compete for students... with taxpayer's dollars.

More waste of taxpayer money. If I needed a computer for school, then I had save enough money to buy it, just like clothes and notebooks. But now taxpayers are on the hook for everything. When does it end?

Yay - because you can never give enough money to the Apple computer company!

Properly funded, they might one day they might even figure out a way to bring Steve Jobs back from the undead (or clone him).