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Chunkford

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School forcing me to buy an iPad
« on: November 03, 2017, 04:17:49 PM »
Anyone else in the UK been subjected to this?

My eldest started secondary school last September so I'm new to this, but she came back from school today saying that to complete her homework she needs an iPad...... what! hang on a minute.
So I started looking to it thinking that I could get a chromebook instead but the school needs her to download ipad apps and they don't have the apps for any other platform.

Now I've never bought an apple product in my life, and it's p***ed me right off that I'm being forced into buying, if I don't them my child suffers.
Great, so the school chooses the most expensive platform on planet earth with no alternative option and probably gets a nice kickback from Apple for doing so.

Rant over.
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Re: School forcing me to buy an iPad
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2017, 04:53:10 PM »
My daughter now teaches in a charter school that part of the state's public school system. It's for grades 7-12. All students are assigned Chromebooks. I think it's a loaner but the student's parents have financial liability if lost or damaged.

Suck it up, CF, and welcome to the new age of questionable education. hhh
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Re: School forcing me to buy an iPad
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2017, 04:58:33 PM »
Assuming you're going to go with the basic 9.7" 2017 model, get her this cover with back-plate. It provides some drop protection. Cheap. Works OK (but not quite as well as the old Ipad2 leather covers).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07253D5C1/

Suggest red or bright color to keep you from sitting on it.  Easier to find.
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Re: School forcing me to buy an iPad
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2017, 05:03:47 PM »
I know it's going to happen, but I had to get it off my chest.
I'm just more p***ed because I have no other alternative but to buy an overpriced slab of metal and glass.
It's just crazy, Chromebooks are perfect educational tools, the iPad isn't.


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Re: School forcing me to buy an iPad
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2017, 05:04:55 PM »
Quote from: rcjordan on November 03, 2017, 04:58:33 PM
Assuming you're going to go with the basic 9.7" 2017 model, get her this cover with back-plate. It provides some drop protection. Cheap. Works OK (but not quite as well as the old Ipad2 leather covers).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07253D5C1/

Suggest red or bright color to keep you from sitting on it.  Easier to find.

Cheers RC, will take a look
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Re: School forcing me to buy an iPad
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2017, 05:14:38 PM »
Ipads now use the 8-pin Lightning connector, so you likely won't have any cables in the house.  Get her a 2M cable (and spare) so she won't be tethered so closely to the outlet.
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Re: School forcing me to buy an iPad
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