[Moltke]

I predict most of these “free” iPads will be broken in short order.

I suspect that this is nothing more than a ploy to get mom and dad a 'free' iPad.

[pillut48]

Did you suspect this when computers first started coming into classrooms? That they would only be used for ‘fun and games’ so the parents could get a free computer out of it? < puzzled >

[truthfreedom]

It’s a ploy to get TEACHERS ipads.

Who gets ipads?

Students - Kindergarteners

Teachers - ALL teachers get ipads.

They can get a generic ipad for under $100. Good enough for a kindergartener. But teachers want the nifty ipad for themselves.

$200K can buy an ipad for every 5 year old and every teacher, or a generic ipad for every student and every teacher. $67 gets a generic ipad. Not anywhere near as good, but able to DO everything an ipad does, and more.

[pillut48]

http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/education.html#internal-nav