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[quote=Anonymous]There are lots of reasons to want to limit your children's use of electronics, from dagnabbit-ness to familiarity with scientific literature on child development to granolatude. That's one debate.

But even if you want your kid to have a device and have it as early as possible, Murphy was told to put the brakes on 1:1 last spring. Then he got an early contract extension from the school board in early July, and he took his job security and bought the MacBooks and iPads.

Not only is that sleazy, but it was a terrible way to implement the program. You cannot just dump a load of devices on the teachers and pretend that you've got any sort of coherent technology program. The teachers should have been consulted about what would be helpful to them. The parents should have been included in discussions about what was coming (the FAQ still isn't available to us). And taxpayers should have some say in how high-end the devices purchased with their tax dollars are. All the apps the high school students will be using are in the cloud, and they're Google and Microsoft. No way do students need Macs for that. [/quote]

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