A majority of the Barrington Area Unit District 220 board members on Tuesday agreed to support a plan to put a laptop into the hands of every student at Barrington High School next year. Several board members expressed their support for the program, referred to as digital age learning, at the board’s first public meeting on next year’s budget.
If the plan is implemented, each of the more than 3,000 students at Barrington High School would be issued an iMac Air laptop next year and in the years to come almost all students in the district would get a laptop. Now, 600 students at the high school have them as part of a pilot program, according to Jeff Arnett, the district’s chief communications officer.
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It is so easy for all the rich liberals to provide expensive laptops to all the students at
Barrington High School.
I’m retired and I can’t afford a laptop of such high quality. I can’t afford the taxes that 220 generates anymore. Just give away our tax money……I can move to Somalia where my social security income will stretch a little farther.
Apple is not used in the business world (and never will be) and just imagine how many Apples we will loose and will find their way onto Craigs list and E bay.
But who cares? It’s only tax money that we can afford to throw away..
Whose brother in–law will be making the sale to the high school this time?
Agree – most parents can well afford to purchase their own laptops. The financial burden should not fall on the shoulders of the taxpayers..