This infuriates me.
It's a long story, but LA Unified raided our local central coast school district budget when their funding dropped out from under them (Basically, LA Unified went with state-funding based on attendance, vs ours basing it off of tax revenue. When attendance dropped and their funding dropped out from underneath them, they took it to the state and got a decent cut of our district's funding). SLCUSD has had to cut summer school, bus service, and layoff lots of teachers and counselors, while incentivizing many more into retirement. Our students directly suffered loss of educational services as a result.
And LA buys $30m worth of iPads a year later. Classy.

I'm sorry, but given how brittle our school system is and how much students are suffering from teacher and service cuts, they have no place to be purchasing bulk orders of computer tablets.