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Schools still a few steps away from take-home devices
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Spanish teacher Anacecilia Ananos, students Nicole Hitke, left, and Joanna Mendoza and their KUNO tablets last week at Fair Street Elementary School. School officials hope to let students take home the tablets by the next school year, after potential liability problems are settled. - photo by NAT GURLEY
When the new Fair Street School building opened in October 2013, it was the Gainesville city school system’s goal for all of those students to have their own school-issued tablet devices with the intent of eventually taking those home. Gainesville’s Director of Technology Keith Palmer is still looking at how that goal can be realized. “There are some obscure legalities involved in the responsibility you assign to the students and parents,” Palmer said.