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Should Kindergartners Get iPads?
About 400 tablet computers, costing almost $500 apiece, will be deployed throughout the Lower Merion School District to the youngest students.
Every student in the 's 14 kindergarten classes this fall will have his or her own Apple iPad tablet computer for lessons, district technology director George Frazier told Patch.
The iPads would stay in the classrooms, which was the arrangement this year for "pilot classes" that used the devices: a kindergarten class at and a first-grade class at , Frazier said.
Those students had some of the approximately 150 iPads deployed in the district this year. About 250 more will be bought in bulk for the coming school year, at $488 per iPad, Frazier said.
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