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Honestly, it has absolutely nothing to do with what teachers, students, or parents want, it's to do with what the district can afford, and technology is one of those bits in the budget that tends to be the smallest.
In fact, it wasn't until 1999 that my school switched from MS-DOS to Windows 95/98/2000 machines. And when I was a freshman in high school, we were using IBM ThinkPads from 1997/8 that could BARELY run Windows XP.
It made us focus more, because we couldn't switch between a game and Microsoft Word without the thing crashing.
Meanwhile in the photo lab, the teacher had all sorts of problems because he had the top of the line, just released G5 Power Macs. Literally had to pull out the ethernet cables to get everyone to do their work and not go on MySpace and other places.
The iPad 2 is good for iBooks and iBooks Author. Plus most other educational apps that would benefit students. It's old tech to us, but it's not like we're talking about a 2003 machine, it's from 2011!
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