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You can. More money. More things to configure. More things to break. More things to lose.

True. That said, if a school is spending 300 per student on an iPad, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to spend another 40 on a keyboard.

it doesn’t seem unreasonable to spend another 40 on a keyboard.

You have obviously never been involved in purchasing decisions at large public institutions. "Reasonable" never features into it.

It may not be unreasonable, but it's more money.

How can you lose a keyboard?

You don't have kids, do you?

I do... my 10 year old son lost a brand new pair of Under Armor shoes two weeks ago. Gone. Poof.

It was maddening as hell, but then I realized that I have lost bigger more expensive things as well. Also, I was a kid too... So I took a deep breath and he used his birthday money to buy himeself a new pair. I didn't have to raise my voice... he just "knew" not to test on this.

Yeah I do.

Issues that are trivial at the level of the individual become logistics headaches when you scale out to thousands or tens of thousands of individuals.

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