Los Angeles school IPads expensive and already outdated

It is no wonder that Bill Gates and the people who run technology companies are so interested in education- it is a continuing cash cow, especially when you consider the tried-and-true practice of tech companies to make their products obsolete after a short time.

The Los Angeles Times continued its investigation into the L.A. School District's purchases of iPads for high school students:

L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy said it was important to buy a computer-based curriculum that fully incorporates learning standards recently adopted by California and 44 other states. And he wanted each student to take upcoming tests, linked to those standards, on a tablet that is permanently assigned to them.

"Our youth deserve the best we can afford," Deasy said.

The tablet chosen by L.A. Unified — the iPad 4 with 32 gigabytes of storage — has since been discontinued as a retail product, but the price under L.A. Unified's contract with Apple Inc. was locked in.

What is worse is that in Los Angeles, the money used to buy the iPads came from construction bonds.