https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624

Kingkade, Tyler. (2025, Dec. 5). Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids. NBC News.

What happens when you give an entire district of students iPads? In this article, LA and its students are the guinea pigs. It turns out the district had no idea what would happen, and now they are scrambling to repair the damage.

To me one of the interesting sidelights is how easy it is for students to skirt the various controls they have to prevent them from spending too much time or doing the wrong things. They use proxy servers, set up dummy accounts, etc., and this makes it hard for the district to track what actually happens.

It seems that the majority of students will survive, if not get some advantages from having pretty much constant access to the web and the digital world. But remember, that book hasn't been written. What happens when you give an entire generation iPhones? We'll find out. This is among the first generations to try.