OMG, my HEAD is gonna explode from the shadiness. LAUSD buys
old/outdated (for iPads) iPads. Sells them to the STATE, with added cost
built-in -- and
forces parents to pay/parents get billed. This looks like a mafia-style,
illegal racketeering shake-down.
This appears to be
serious crony-racketeering. Apple had to dump the
outdated product. Deasy/LAUSD is stockholder/used in Apple promo
videos/materials. LAUSD flips the iPads to the STATE. And it is decided
that parents have to pay $986 for old iPads with common core. [AND, parents have to buy insurance for the iPad. You have a CHOICE of
two plans. THIS SOUNDS LIKE ObamaCare APPLIED TO EDUCATION SYSTEM!] Oh, but,
if you already have one,
you can use it? How many kids already have one? Not the low-income ones,
I bet? So, you'll have SOME kids, with their own personal, newest iPad,
and others with old ones. 2 class system? I guess if you can't afford
to buy an iPad for your kid, you can't go to a State Charter. Kinda
seems like an unspoken (Country Club) screening system, to keep out the
riff-raff kids. If kids can use their own, personal iPads, from home, I
guess the Charters have no restrictions, so students can use facebook
(insert obligatory, "and watch porno"), all day. (I don't think kids
watch porno. Just watch really DUMB stuff and BAD music videos on
YouTube, all day, like Zuma Dogg.) Do the
iPads the Charters/LAUSD provide to students have any
filters/restrictions.
MOREOVER: The i-Pads are illegal to purchase with school construction
bond money as they are equipment that will not last 10 years and it is
illegal to pay educators with school construction bond money also
according the the LeRoy Greene Act. ALSO: LAUSD claims these iPad
devices are a #TechnicalUpgrade, as that is ALL this bond may be used for; in addition to the #UpgradeMustLast10Years+
requirement. A technical upgrade, under bond money conditions, would be
for improvements that enhance the BUILDINGS. For example, to make an
upgrade that would allow for a #StudentPerClassroom
reduction, or make a wing that could be used, if upgraded; to be
upgraded. NOT to give iPads to students. If the bond money could be used
to buy text books; and you chose to buy iPads, instead; Zuma Dogg would
look the other way; if not totally support. Cause iPad is NOT
CONSTRUCTION upgrade; but upgrade of textbooks/learning tools.
Additionally, if the student drops out or moves; does LAUSD re-claim the
iPad? I don't know/doubt it. Remember a few years ago, when LAUSD
LOST=COULD NOT FIND=DID NOT EVER FIND...$400 MILLION IN LAUSD computers?
Hmmm...wonder if the plan was to let Tony Sopranos crew carry em out
the back door? SOMEONE HAS/HAD EM, CAUSE THEY COULDN'T FIND EM. Wonder
if we'll be reading about missing iPads. Seems like LAUSD isn't able to
manage their own resources. I wonder if criminals/thugs/predators will
be targeting LAUSD kids, knowing they got iPads in their backpacks? The
Apple contract says they will replace 5% of the value of the contract,
for iPads that are lost or break. Do you know how easily an iPad breaks,
if you drop it? EASILY. It ain't designed like a Hasbro toy, for wear
and tear and dropping. At this point, I should mention, I have blogged
over the years how INSANELY RIDICULOUS it is, that the school systems
still teach the online/computer generation, with a 1950's
era/technology/BIG-HEAVY BOOKS. BUT, these are $600+ iPads (the extra
cost, cause they are loaded with #EducationalSoftware,
but NO ARGUMENT can be made, that these aren't WAY over-priced, no
matter what. BUT, I am ALL FOR electronic/computer innovation for
education. HOWEVER, the cost of replacement MUST be considered, because
if LAUSD has to pay for every broke/stolen/lost iPad, beyond the 5% of
the contract's value; it's gonna get REAL expensive. Plus, LAUSD will
spend additional MILLIONS and MILLIONS (hundreds, I have to check the
figure) -- in future years, with this iPad contract. As a side note, but
noteworthy; LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy is an Apple stockholder and
appears in the Apple promo video. Not sure how much stock he owns, and
owning Apple stock is not uncommon; but when factored into this
equation, makes me wonder, like Robert Plant. MORE TO COME, I'M ALMOST
SURE. Wait for the audit in a few years. BUT, the MAIN THING IS: The
i-Pads are illegal to purchase with school construction bond money as
they are equipment that will not last 10 years according the the
LeRoy Greene Act. http://ZumaDogg.com/.
COMMENT: Near_Chaos
10:47pm
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If
this LAUSD/iPad deal is ANYTHING other than, one iPad for every desk in
the classroom; that stays IN the classroom; and remains #LAUSD property; and when the student leaves, it stays with the desk; THEN THIS IS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT AND FUCKED UP AND SHADY!
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