I agree that there are many things the school systems could possibly do but locally it seems the only thing they are concerned with is to buy every child a MacBook. I have seen no discussion of what they will then do with the MacBook which is my concern.

It was the same with the smart boards, every classroom had to have one but I do not believe they have added much to the instruction as the focus seems to have been on getting the smartboard more than how they would use them.

I was interested to see if this was isolated or more widespread. As I mentioned initially, a neighboring school district has provided a computer to every child and I think envy is driving the purchases.