Financial+Group

=Financial Group= Frank Bonner, Catherine Trotter, Shelley Wiseley

Financial Considerations How will financial aid students be included in this program? What about compatability with what college require of incoming students? Will there be a discount for multiple children? Rent-Lease-Own Will there be an option to buy after a period of time? Who will cover the cost of repairs after warrenty has expired? Will school endowment funds be used to cover this expense?

Research is underway to see if there are foundations or corporations they provide grants or help underwrite these expenses.

All of these questions were raised by the group. Answers to these questions are needed before a plan to go forward is presented.

Beyond the financial considerations some other questions were raised. Do teachers need more time to learn tablet use before rolling it out to students? Many students have laptops at home can they use those instead of the tablets.

Lease versus Purchase

I would strongly recommend that we find a way to lease the computers to the student/families. I recently attended a workshop on computer forensics and realized that we are opening ourselves up to considerable problem with students taking computers off campus and bringing them back onto campus with material which is unacceptable. If the students/families own the computers there will be legal problems with enforcement of acceptable use policies. We will be arguing, possibly in the courts, about when does the freedom to look at anything on the internet at home conflict with the rights of the school to protect students. We obviously need legal advice on acceptable use and how we should proceed. IF the computer is school property, I think we would be in a stronger position on insuring that there is no unacceptable material on the computers on campus. An essential part of an acceptable use policy is that "students have no right to privacy on campus" when it comes to digital material. This should include cellphones, mp-3 players etc. but that is another question. Butch Chappelle