Los Angeles Unified School District - Epic expensive fail with iPad

[TSwizzle]

Here we go again. Not content with throwing money down the drain on their payroll software, $1.3 billion wasted on iPads and custom software.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking to recoup millions of dollars from technology giant Apple over a problem-plagued curriculum that was provided with iPads intended to be given to every student, teacher and administrator.
The $1.3-billion iPad effort was a signature program under then-Supt. John Deasy. But it faltered almost immediately during the fall 2013 rollout of the devices. Questions later arose about whether Apple and Pearson enjoyed an advantage in the bidding process; an FBI criminal investigation is ongoing.

LA Times

Dolts.

Deasy had said the technology effort was a civil rights imperative designed to provide low-income students with devices available to their wealthier peers. He resigned under pressure in October, largely because of problems with the iPad effort. He could not be reached for comment.

They just can't help themselves. Free iPads for the poor ! Can't have them using those shitty Samsung knock offs.

 

[Trausti]

Here we go again. Not content with throwing money down the drain on their payroll software, $1.3 billion wasted on iPads and custom software.



LA Times

Dolts.

Deasy had said the technology effort was a civil rights imperative designed to provide low-income students with devices available to their wealthier peers. He resigned under pressure in October, largely because of problems with the iPad effort. He could not be reached for comment.

They just can't help themselves. Free iPads for the poor ! Can't have them using those shitty Samsung knock offs.

The idea that handing students electronic gadgets will make them better learners is just nonsense. The generation that took us the moon used pencil and paper; ditto the generation that started the information age. If students already have difficulty focusing, that difficulty will be magnified by the distraction of these gadgets. I think this is simply an effort to forge an excuse for poor outcomes other than teachers or the students themselves.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'm sorry. Did that article just say $786 per iPad... and that is excluding the curriculum?

A three-year license to use the curriculum added about $200 to the $768 cost of each iPad.

And the curriculum didn't exist when they signed off on the deal.

So the idea of giving each student an iPad could work... maybe... but nearly $800 per iPad?! And they signed off on a curriculum that didn't exist. And the deal included allowing a curriculum to not exist in the first year? OH MY LUMP!