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2/20/2018 4:56:51 PM
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That and having to have a couple people man each scanning station along with the equipment would be just too much for most school districts to accommodate in their budgets.
However, I fully believe that having a couple armed security guards on the premises wouldn't be anything that would break the bank, nor is it something today that would be fought over doing.
Having them scan each student coming into the building is the gray area. That would take an extreme amount of time, as well would require even more security as well as scanning equipment to speed up the process.
There is no easy answer here, because it's unfortunately a needed requirement, but the fact that money drives every decision makes it much more difficult.
In the high school my youngest son graduated from, they had used iPads for many of the classes his entire high school years. It was a costly expense, more than regular book fees, which were all jail broken by the students and were rarely used for their intended purposes. The kids were smarter on getting around the safeguards than the staff was at implementing them. That said, it was a colossal waste of money to supply kids with their own personal youtube devices during class time.... They should scrap that and get back to books, and use the money on security measures rather than play things. The lids actually learned less (got dumber) because of the iPads.
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To give it to the students, if they're smart enough to jailbreak their iPads, they're probably smart enough to get free PDFs of the textbooks that they need. One of the high schools here has been experimenting with electronic PDF books on chromebooks, while the high school I went to is still using the textbooks that I used back when I was still going there. I can understand the chemistry books and math books, since the basic fundamentals of both of those haven't really changed since even while my own father was in high school, but for stuff like English and History, I can easily see why those would need to be changed every few years or so. My high school is still pretty down there in graduation percent and exam scores (lowest of the three here in the town, and one of the lowest in the county), but the newly established high school here is performing pretty well on examinations and stuff. I wouldn't say that all high school students are dumb and will use it for recreational purposes only, but why would high schools go for iPads? Chromebooks are easily more limiting in what a student can do with it, and they can take a lot of abuse without anything bad happening to it.
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I'm sure it had to do with some contract and school board getting the benefit of it somehow.
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I hope some of the teachers would also benefit from that. Teachers do need to get paid more for what they do, since it's a difficult job that doesn't pay nearly enough for the amount of time and care teachers would put into their classes.
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I'm sure the teachers have no say nor get any added benefit from. I know some that disagree with having the iPads, and knew the kids were not using them as intended in class. They have a hands off policy, and can't even confiscate cellphones now. I'd never make it as a teacher. The ONLY thing the iPads were good for is called ELearning. Anytime the school was cancelled for snow, they had mandatory class exercises to do online at the regular class time. Failure to do so would be met with a decent grade penalty. That made it so they'd no longer would extend the school year past Memorial Day to make up the snow days. In the past they may get extended into early June. School begins earlier and earlier every year. Used to be never back before Labor Day. Now it's up 2nd week in August.
