David Colin is a retired electronics engineer (and concerned citizen) who asked Guilford County school officials to rethink their plan to distribute Asus tablet computers to students. (If you have not heard, the Guilford County Schools tablet program is a mess. Screens are breaking. Chargers are melting. Contracts have been questioned. Patience is wearing thin.)
Anyway, Colin’s objection to the tablet program was simple, even elegant. He pointed out,
[The Asus tablet] is a retail product, and they’re trying to use it in a commercial-type operation.
That’s it; no need to talk about technical specifications or design. That one sentence says it all.
Unfortunately, GCS school officials ignored Colin and others who raised concerns about the tablet program. And taxpayers are picking up the tab.
