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Apple equipment purchased for Children's Village
The Waterford Schools Board of Education at its Thursday, Sept. 20 meeting approved the purchase of 80 Apple iPads, four carts and four MacBook laptop computers for Oakland County Children’s Village School.
The electronics were purchased at a price of $72,087.80 through Title 1 funding.
Children’s Village is a division of Oakland County’s Department of Health and Human Services and guards children under the authority of Oakland County Circuit Court Family Court and the state of Michigan Department of Human Services.
The Waterford School District is contracted to oversee educational programs for Children’s Village.
Title 1 programs are part of the federal No Child Left Behind initiative and provide funds to local school districts to improve the education of disadvantaged students.
This is just one of many steps the Waterford School District is taking to upgrade its technology at its facilities.
Back in May, the board also approved the beginning of Phase 1 of a four-year computer replacement plan with Dell, with an annual payment of $182,566 each year.
The first phase will also involve installing 100 high-end workstations, including 31 computer aided architecture design (CAAD) workstations and 19 workstations for video/digital arts at both Waterford Mott and Kettering high schools.
3 Responses to Apple equipment purchased for Children's Village
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crazy townie
September 28, 2012 at 6:08 am
Why Apple? Premium priced products are nice but whats wrong with some other tablet that works and costs 30% as much?
Waterford Schools have made another poor choice in spending Federal money.
IT in Waterford is starting to look as bad as West Bloomfield and that’s sad.
AJ
September 30, 2012 at 1:09 am
In many ways, no other tablet works as well as an iPad.
Also, right now there seem to be far more educational apps for the iPad than there are for any other tablet.
The real question though, is why are they buying tablets at all when laptops and desktops are more functional (and less likely to break) in school environments?
Bob
October 3, 2012 at 4:34 am
That’s almost $1000 per Ipad. Last I checked you could buy a new one for $400. What do you bet that most Ipads will be used by teachers/administrators and not kids? How many of them will still be working in 2 years once they’re dropped or mishandled by users? There are many pads out there that can do the same thing with free software available online. Once again government overpays with out tax dollars.