Sunday, March 18, 2012

Is equity the purpose of public schools?

The McAllen school district is providing each of its 25,000 students  from kindergarten through grade 12 an iPad and/or iPod Touch. This will cost about $20.5 million dollars.

School board president Sam Saldivar Jr. said the investment aims at equity. Hmmmmm - shouldn't such a large sum of school district funds be aimed at education?

"McAllen district hands out iPads." The Dallas Morning News; February 28, 2012; p. 3A.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That is the craziest thing I think I've every heard! Tax payers have no say in anything anymore. We are literally slaves to society.