Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students - latimes.com

What the article fails to mention is that these computers are often equipped with malicious proprietary software, some of which is documented as having been used by an education system to photograph students while they used them in their private homes, even in various states of undress. “It’s great to suggest that every student should be equipped with a laptop or given 24/7 access to Wi-Fi, but shouldn’t our federal bureaucrats figure out how to stem the tidal wave of layoffs in the teaching ranks and unrelenting cutbacks in school programs and maintenance budgets first? School districts can’t afford to buy enough textbooks for their pupils, but they’re supposed to equip every one of them with a $500 iPad?” http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120205,0,639053.column?track=icymi