On: Computer Files Are Going Extinct

[cookie_monsta]

> the iPad requirement is my but beef.

I feel your pain. At an obligatory 500 bucks a pop I would have been much happier to buy them laptops.

[pnutjam → cookie_monsta]

I rent them, but unless you have other Apple products you can only setup adult accounts, so my kindergartner has to be "13".

[cookie_monsta → pnutjam]

We somehow dodged the iPads for kindergarteners bullet but that would have made my blood boil. I guess the FingerPaint app is less messy than actual fingers and actual paint.

In my less charitable moments I think teachers are getting lazier, but when I go to those parent conferences and see the teaching staff looking like rabbits in the spotlight as parents of 3rd graders grill them on the latest academic theories I realise that really they're caught in the middle of a whole set of weird expectations.