I just recently found out that all the students at Richmond Middle School got an iPad each. Does anyone else think that is ridiculous? Thats at least 400 dollars per iPad, not including the cases and whatever protective and technical services they also pay for. And according to previous students at RMS, there are about 500 students. Roughly that could add up to a quarter of a million dollars. Does that seem at all realistic? This is just at the middle school! This year in the high school (from what I saw) we got a massive MacBook pro cart with roughly 30 laptops. Once again, each one is $1200 which comes out to $36,000. Why would we ever need that many laptops in one cart when about 80% of the student population has their own device? That money could easily be allocated to much more valuable resources or even helping out the seniors with our class trip/prom/all-night party. Basically, the Dresden District is run by a bunch of blind nitwits that get roused when someone bring up the notion of buying more gadgets. Be smarter about what you buy! We have internet that doesn't even run fast enough for me to write on GoogleDocs. The tech department gets upset because most of the internet is used on youtube and music streaming but guess what video streaming for just four websites (Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Video, and Hulu) make up 53% of all the internet used in the world.
Lets be realistic and stop trying to make our school something its not. Stop buying gadgets and give us internet.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/video-accounts-53-percent-internet-655203
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