One by one, Evanston-Skokie District 65 parents approached the public comment podium to urge the Board to reconsider their policy in supporting a 1:1 technology model, which supplies every kindergartener through eighth grade student in the district with a personal iPad for school use.
Parent Lisa Weiss took a lighter approach.
“If you want to know how your March Madness bracket is doing, my son will check the score for you on his school iPad,” Weiss said at the March 23 D65 school board meeting.
“I know ESPN isn’t the worst, but every week, we discover new distracting sites and games our kids can freely access on their school iPads. Having these distractions on school devices legitimizes the distractions… the moment school iPads came home, they interrupted the way we wanted…
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