School Town of Munster is charging $150 to rent ($1000 to buy) a laptop. These are mandatory. Now putting aside all the various things that are wrong with this program (and there are a number of them), there is one bit of unadulterated dead weight.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are still supposed to pay for a scientific calculator (with square root key) and forget about the hundred times more capable machine that's being added to the textbook mix. It's pointless, no worse, it's galling. It's like mandating your horseless carriage have a buggy whip.
HT: Kathy Giba
