Yesterday in the local paper there was a short article about the school district buying 60 iPads to distribute to some of the students.
Leaving aside such issues as how 60 iPads can be divided among several hundred students or whether iPads, in and of themselves, can actually aid students in actually learning (which I doubt), my main take away from the article is the economic ignorance on display.
As reported in the July 19, 2013 Caledonian Record:
School officials initially planned to purchase the