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Buy more Apple products and use them more and you get an award for it.  Sounds like a well thought out plan from the marketing department, much more so than a well thought plan from a respected educational institution.

I love Apple products, own several and own a decent amount of Apple stock in my portfolio.  As a shareholder, it sounds like a fantastic way to increase market presence, and increase sales (which Apple is GREAT at doing).  But, [b]as a parent, it doesn't excite me in the least.[/b]  [/quote]

+1  We, too, love Apple products; but they are a tool, not an outcome.  A pencil also is a tool and requires some ability to manipulate it so that the user achieves the full potential of its use.  We're hoping that eventually the education pendulum will start to swing back.  Right now there is a huge kick that everything must be on an iPad or Chrome Book.  Unfortunately, there is little recognition by the administrations of our school systems that these items are just tools and that the quality of instruction matters more.  And, of course, there is the fact that the children are being allowed to do whatever they want on the things regardless of the age-inappropriateness of those things.  Sigh.[/quote]

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