“Secondary students at Highland Park Independent School District will get some high-tech school supplies this fall in the form of notebook computers. The Apple iBooks, about 400 of them, already have arrived at Highland Park. And all sixth- through 12th-grade students will get one in mid-September. ‘It’ll be different because it’ll be the first year we’ve done it,’ said junior Chelsea Drillette. ‘I think it’ll be good, though. You need to know a lot of computer skills for the future,'” Jennifer Wilson reports for The Amarillo Globe-News.
Wilson reports, “The iBooks are courtesy of the district’s $5.2 million bond election, which voters approved in August. ‘We’re so excited. It’s going to be awesome,’ said Susan Looney, the district’s technology coordinator… Brenda Foster, who teaches seventh- and eighth-grade math, has already attended a session and taken her iBook home. ‘We got to learn about some of the programs they have on there, the basic programs,” Foster said. “I think (the iBooks) are really neat. They do a lot of things.'”
Full article (free registration required) with pictures of oodles of iBooks here.
MacDailyNews Take: See, they know how to get things done in Texas! Don’t mess with Texas.
[UPDATE: 7/12/2005, 2:15pm EDT: Fixed headline to read “Texas” instead of “Dallas-area.”]
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I wonder why they didn’t go with Texas-native Dell?
“I think (the iBooks) are really neat. They do a lot of things.”
Brenda Foster, TEACHER.
Exactly Brenda, exactly.
Definitly my quote of the year
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MW: returned, as in all copies of Windows will eventually be returned because it is a worm ridden, POS OS.
>”I think (the iBooks) are really neat. They do a lot of things.”
Brenda Foster, TEACHER.>
Yes, but can they spell?
Oh yes. If they have Appletalk.
MW- horse, as in beating a dead one.
SB- Appleworks. Sorry.
When I went to school the only thing they gave away was the ink in the desk ink well. Glad I’ve lived to see the day when such tool can be given away. However, people tend to value less what for free. Too bad they don’t earn them in some way, like community service.
Well, I’m from Texas, and I wouldn’t touch a Dell if you paid me. Whether they’re based here or not, they’re still nothing but crap. Way to go Highland Park!
Please send your donations for my iBook to
Tax payer bites the dust
Endless money supplies USA
Dude, there are two Highland Park school districts in Texas. One is in Dallas. (http://www.hpisd.org) One is in Amarillo. (http://www.hpisd.net) This is the one in Amarillo, so the headline’s wrong.
Unfortunately it is not the Highland Park ISD in the Dallas area (where my kids attend) but the Highland Park ISD near El Paso in west Texas.
Much as I would like the HP district surrounded by Dallas to begin handing out iBooks, it just ain’t true. The headline needs to be fixed. However, the MDN “take” does not, since it’s still in Texas!
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Did you hear about the new Texas toilet paper?
It had to be recalled because the stuff wouldn’t take any sh*t off anybody.