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March 11, 2026 — Meeting Transcript
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I know that is at least the spirit or intent of some of this but curious what the roadmap for that. Yeah, so the provision for bringing devices was really just for this year and so that does come to an end and probably to the point of that it is a healthy end. We do believe that if we can provide the right devices we limit the distractions and there is a lot of availability on these devices to be able to really be safe and secure and eliminate those distractions so to that point yeah there is not a whole lot of insight that we get other than some base filtering to a student's device that they bring on campus. This changes that game quite a bit because now we have devices that we have oversight in completely and those exist on our campus with complete control really and so yeah that would be the end of the one-year-old device. There we go.
It could be my interpretation. There are a lot of add-ons and bells and whistles you can put in over time and what we wouldn't want to do even if you roll it out here are the great new Chromebooks. Shout out to my pixel brother Ben over there but you know just get it working correctly so everyone has a really great experience and over time you can add all the bells and whistles it can do with these devices. Yeah. That's really good. We even talked about a status monitor of being able to monitor the core things of what we would expect them to be able to do so that everybody could know where everything is at in that expectation to be able to do that so that's really good. I have a couple more things. I could go on and on. Can I, I'm sorry, can I let Nina ask her question? Oh yeah, please go ahead. I'm sorry Ben. It's very very quick. I was just wondering about the extent of your like loader devices that we would have because I'm wondering for things like I'm sure there's a lot but maybe NWEA testing or I know there's a school administered SAT test so would these be things that could be taken on this new iPad Air at the high school or would Okay. That's really cool. Okay. So that wouldn't be something where every student needs to get a separate one. Okay. That's great. Wonderful. Thank you. That's a really good question.
Thank you. That's a really good question. We definitely had to spend some time on that. She does. Good night, Nina. I guess one of the things that is so in the spirit of course of the legislation of late, you know the fact that we still and it's understandable why we still have kids who bring their own devices to high school, my son included. Do you think would the expectation be for next year or some other time where we would go ahead and be able to make that no longer possible? I mean in a related question that is I would imagine that any issues that we may have on the high school network could also be related to the fact that we have a whole army of rogue devices essentially, right? And also back to the intentionality and what is not happening on these because you really don't know what is happening on a device that a kid brings to school potentially, right? So I just want to see if we can touch on that. I know that is at least the spirit or intent of some of this but curious what the roadmap for that. Yeah, so the provision for bringing devices was really just for this year and so that does come to an end and probably to the point of that it is a healthy end.
This changes that game quite a bit because now we have devices that we have oversight in completely and those exist on our campus with complete control really and so yeah that would be the end of the one-year-old device. There we go. I also envision that the roll out of that would be us partnering with Dan and his team to think about how is that communicated to families and students so similar to the personal electronic devices I think it's going to be a parallel kind of approach to things that will have to be monitored that we will have to remind children so Dan and I had a conversation the other day that after spring break is a good time to remind children of what the rules are so I think that's what we're talking to Dan about what that might look like. Okay. So can I ask the obvious question of will we be allowing kids to link their personal phones up to these devices? No. Okay. That's the right answer. Yeah. Because you do know that with all of the bring your own devices that is exactly what is getting through the filters. And part of this process and I know the kids probably don't like hearing this but part of this process is actually doing some of that work. Things that need to actually be really managed and secured and this gives us the opportunity to do that. And then do we do you have more questions? No. I'm done. Thank you. Okay.
Thank you. Okay. Should I ask the next one? So the durability of these, just the iPads versus the Chromebooks, do we think from a tech perspective that they're just as good or you're not worried about it because of the Apple care warranties? Sounds like the keyboards are probably better because they're waterproof but just in general like they're going to get dropped. Absolutely. They're going to get kicked around. We know this. No matter what devices in the hands of students we have to think about all of those things. We do anticipate and did spend some time doing some studying of devices and rates of damage are much, much, much lower on iPads than Chromebooks and they are much lower than MacBooks and so this really from those studies have shown even some of our third party friends that do some of the work and repair and devices have all said that there is a lesser percentage. Representative really on the of the 5% buffer that we'll be having on hand to be able to meet that need and so we do believe that also Apple care will play a huge role because Apple care does give us the opportunity to really get those devices in and back pretty quickly and so that is a role and there will definitely be breakage. We understand that. We do feel that the cases that were chosen were chosen with that in mind as a result of the need and that is one of the reasons.