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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Public Schools have always demanded some financial expenditures from parents, such as for school books, even more so for extra curricular activities, so I can see parents being expected to buy tablets for their little darlings in the future. It probably would save money in the long run. Buying and selling school books is such a racket.
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College kids pay for books, of course. You're not legally guaranteed a college education. U.S. kids are legally entitled to education through high school, and their parents don't pay for textbooks (outside of taxes). There's a difference between paying for an extracurricular activity (voluntary) and paying for something you're legally entitled to.
As for whether it would save money, the question is whether schools can come up with the upfront costs. It would save money to do many things upfront, but states often do them incrementally, because they don't have all the money upfront. That's why it takes them forever to do many big projects.