[Steely Tom]

Here's the executive summary:

1. The students smashed the laptops.
2. They got specially reinforced laptops, and the students smashed those too.
3. The laptops were used to view pornography. When anti-porn software was installed, it caused the laptops to crash.
4. The laptops were used to play on-line games. When anti-gaming software was installed, it caused the laptops to slow down and crash.
5. The laptops were stolen. The administrator of the program had to spend time testifying in court in theft cases brought by the school district.
6. The only teacher who would talk about something positive that he wanted to do with the student laptops (a math teacher) said that the laptops were so slow - due to all the anti-porn and anti-game software that had been installed - that the graphing calculator app he wanted to demonstrate wouldn't work.
7. Every person involved with launching the program and implementing it has left the school district.
8. Now it's going to cost money to throw away the laptops that are left.

[grania]

Students deliberately sabotage the computers, and they’re very good at it.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Excellent summary!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Give me half a dozen and I’ll make a fine working one fromn the scraps.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks for the summary.

[rfreedom4u]

As to your number 8:

They should auction the laptops off. At least a small amount of money could be recovered that way.