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EPIC FAIL: Los Angeles high schools now confiscate all free iPads they gave students
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Posted on 10/02/2013 1:39:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

EPIC FAIL: Los Angeles high schools now confiscate all free iPads they gave students

The Daily Caller 3 hours ago

Hilariously, officials at high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are now taking back a couple thousand iPads a week or so after giving them to students as part of a 47-school pilot program.

The mass repossession is the latest in a series of responses by school officials to the fact that hundreds of students figured out almost immediately how to hack the security settings on their iPads. Another 71 kids ostensibly lost their iPads just as immediately. (RELATED: LA schools give every kid an iPad—what could go wrong?)

Each iPad cost the school district $700. School district officials have said that the eventual goal is to supply every kid with one of the devices as part of a technology plan that will cost $1 billion.

As of Friday, students at Westchester High School and Roosevelt High School are now bereft of their iPads, reports the Los Angeles Times. At least most of them are now bereft, anyway. A Roosevelt teacher told the Times that about one-third of the devices still remain unaccounted for.

“They carted them out of every classroom in sixth period,” Westchester senior Brian Young told The Times on Monday. “There has been no word of when they’ll be back.”

Other schools may soon follow suit and recall their students’ iPads as well.

The hacking was far from rocket science for the tech-savvy students. Bypassing the security settings imposed by school officials took no more than a few simple clicks.

Students had told the Times they were frustrated because they couldn’t surf the Internet freely or visit social media and music streaming websites.

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To: GeronL

A crutch? iPads have given me the opportunity to create amazing research projects. The net books that the freshmen have are crap. They rarely work. The iPads are consistent and there are rarely network issues. On the iPads we have textbooks at a fraction of the cost. Any unknown words can automatically be defined. I can create assessments that require responses based on observations found on any Internet site. Right now my gov class is learning about democracy. I “gave them” a country recently liberated from a dictator via civil war. There are many defined issues but as citizens of other democracies, they must research, analyze, and describe why the particular style of democracy they chose is best. This is extremely simplified due to time, but I wouldn’t be able to do this without tech in the classroom. My personal issue has always been this: If the tax payers are on the line for something, I’m going to use the hell out of it. The taxpayer is the most important link in the chain. Baby crying, short on time!


61 posted on 10/02/2013 5:00:27 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

As the husband of a former HS teacher, this is exactly the truth.

They will start “checking out” the IPads to teachers and other employees, who will start to return them at longer and longer intervals until finally they never come back. The district won’t think there’s enough value to follow up/retrieve, and the employees will end up with cool gadgets on the taxpayers dime.


62 posted on 10/02/2013 5:00:45 PM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: goodwithagun

if the taxpayer is the most important link, abolish government schools


63 posted on 10/02/2013 5:10:15 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

There are teachers like me who are approaching their Dagney Taggart moment. I got into education for so many good reasons, and then discovered how unions and the left pervert things. Don’t lump us all together please! Again, fussy baby girl = short explanation. I hope I get some sleep tonight! I keep reminding myself that these are the days to which I’ll look back with fondness lol!


64 posted on 10/02/2013 5:23:25 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

I’m not lumping you anywhere. Public education is what I was talking about


65 posted on 10/02/2013 5:56:18 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: DoughtyOne

Technology has it’s place in schools, but when you see class after class being run through a computer lab day in and day out and then enter a classroom with kids on computers playing “educational” games, one has to wonder if the education is really a quality education.

Funny thing is, those kids grew up with computers, so they know how to hack


66 posted on 10/02/2013 6:12:01 PM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: Cyman

Thank you!!!!... that was my first thought.


67 posted on 10/02/2013 8:51:50 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (A pox on the House of Apple and the ios7 horse they rode in on.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Another 71 kids ostensibly lost their iPads just as immediately.

Or they sold them.

68 posted on 10/03/2013 9:03:51 AM PDT by Steve0113 (I miss having a president who loves this country.)
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