Not just durability, but ergonomics. My kids have crappy screens, literally the worst trackpad I’ve ever used, and awful keys that hurt my hands minutes after typing (but I go all day on my personal computer).

If schools are found to be neglecting a minimum standard of care by subjecting kids to hardware that causes long term physical issues, they would have wished they would spend a little more (it amortizes to about $20/student year difference the way our school district does it).

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the_sleaze_ 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Not just durability, but ergonomics.

Somehow while spending the most per capita of any nation on the planet, American schools are in a perpetual budget crunch. It's about getting internet access not whether the trackpad is good. You think a chromepad is crappy - have you ever tried to do something in Blackboard?

> If schools are found to be neglecting a minimum standard of care

They won't be. Pizza sauce is considered a vegetable.

An aside: Why do school board super-intendants and administration make more money than teachers themselves? I believe they shouldn't.

	▲	runjake 12 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Why do school board super-intendants and administration make more money than teachers themselves? A couple reasons: 1. Because usually, superintendents and the administration are responsible and accountable for a lot more moving parts than teachers are. Aside from the many kids each teacher teachers, which leads us to point #2. 2. There is a lot more supply of teachers than demand. If a teacher doesn't like their objectively meager pay, they can quit. There are 10 applicants lined up waiting to take their position. > I believe they shouldn't. This is generally handled at your city level. Organize your like-minded constituents to lobby the board?
	▲	dragonwriter 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Why do school board super-intendants and administration make more money than teachers themselves? The more and less cynical explanations (and both play a role, IMO): (1) Because individuals in those roles have closer relationships to the people that set the salaries than do individual teachers, and (2) Because otherwise people with experience in education would continue as teachers and not seek roles as superintendents or other administrators (or seek the advanced degrees sought for those roles whose only financial payoff is greater competitiveness for those higher paying roles.)

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Aeolun 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think my school solves this by telling the parents to buy ‘something’ for the kids, as long as it has a webbrowser and keyboard.

	▲	jonhohle 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Our district had BYOD and just got rid of it this year. We used it because the teachers couldn’t manage keeping kids off games or YouTube on their Chromebooks during class. Even then, personal devices could not be used for state testing.