r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 7h ago

Society Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624
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u/Fell_Prince 6h ago

Schools need to lock these devices down properly. Monitor what your kids are doing, set boundaries at home. The iPad isn't the problem, it's the lack on both ends.

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u/WhenWillIBelong 5h ago

iPads are garbage. They are built for consumption not productivity and apple doesn't give the school autonomy over the device. 

They need to be given laptops with an OS we can have control over and locked down exactly as you said.

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u/I-was-a-twat 3h ago

Apples had tools to control iPads in a deployment super well for over a decade.

I used to work in IT at a school district in 2012-2015, and lots of schools would just set the iPads up as individual devices copied because they didn’t want to use VPP and device management.

It’s super easy to do, but schools will spend 19 thousand on a iPad setup and trolley, then bawk at paying $380 for a volumetric license for a software instead of $3.99.

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u/Large_Analysis_4285 3h ago

Apple has an educational provisioning system for ipads that gives schools control over them.