Tablet manaufacturer tells Guilford County Schools not our chargers.
“Based on the testing completed on the tablets and chargers, Asus does not have any safety concern regarding these products, and we stand by the quality of our products,” according to a statement from Asus to Amplify, the tablet vendor.
In the letter, Asus acknowledges receiving complaints of the chargers being hot to touch, but said that the evaluation found “no indication of product defect” and that the chargers functioned within national safety standards.
That response “doesn’t actually reflect the experience that we’ve had here in Guilford County,” said Nora Carr, the school systems’s chief of staff.
But as the N&R reported a couple of weeks ago, GCS’ tablet debacle goes beyond melting chargers:
In mid-August, the district employees training teachers to use the tablets complained about the software and about persistent glitches with the devices’ basic functions.
“The oddity is that all tablets we try to register fail, even though they come out of different boxes,” one wrote. “It’s not intermittent, it’s 100 percent failure.”
….In mid-September, another trainer warned that teachers were upset about losing access to websites such as learnzillion.com, which include instructional aids.
“This is hurting the morale,” the trainer wrote. “I believe teachers are getting okay with the Wi-Fi issues, but the websites had people in some different moods today.”
Let’s see—bureaucrats eager to spend taxpayers’ money with their cool technology and when the deal lays an egg they say oh well we knew there would be glitches. I’ve heard that somewhere before.
