Los Angeles students get iPads for classroom, play video games instead

yahoo.com ^ | October 7, 2013 | Chris Morris

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You have to give school officials in Los Angeles credit for a good idea: put iPads in the hands of over 650,000 students to give them the most advanced learning tools available in an effort to boost their interest in academics.

But the $1 billion plan is taking some heat after students in the nation's second-largest school district cracked the tablets’ security settings to forgo reading, writing and ‘rithmetic and instead post on Facebook and play games during class time.

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Nothing will upgrade a blackboard and chalk and textbooks

In my day we had discovered a way to hack the blackboard, chalk, and textbooks.

It was called playing hooky.