I disagree about the Chromebooks.

This was years ago, but my son went to a middle-school that provided them for all the kids. In class they had a rack of them at the back where they recharged. During a student-teacher conference with my son, she asked him to go grab a Chromebook and pull up an assignment he had done so we could talk about it. He went and grabbed a random computer off the rack, it instantly woke up, he logged in and had his lesson loaded for us to see in literally seconds. I had never seen the Chromebooks in action before and as a techie I was amazed at how smooth it was.

I have no idea how iPads are set up for use in educational environments, but seeing how the Chromebooks were used really impressed me. I also don't know if things have changed in the years since, but they definitely worked great for kids a decade or so ago.

Heh. To tell you how long ago this was, my son is actually a high school teacher himself now! So obviously it wasn't an impediment to his education.