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Florida’s Clearwater High School spends Thousands on unused Kindles – Daily Mail

A Florida school bought a Kindle for every one of its pupil back into 2010
Clearwater High School thought the e-readers would replace textbooks
But now students have Revealed They rarely – if ever- use the devices

By Keiligh Baker for Mail Online

Published: 09:41 ET, 19 August 2015 | Updated: 10:45 ET, 19 August 2015

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A Florida school Which Bought a brand new Kindle for each of its students five years ago HAS still not paid for many of them – and most have never been used.

In 2010 Clearwater High School in Clearwater, Florida, Became the First School in the world to buy a Kindle e-reader for each of its 1,750 students Because it thought Kindles would replace textbooks.

A promotional video made by Amazon back in 2012 shows students at the school using the Kindles.

In 2010 Clearwater High School (pictured) in Clearwater, Florida, Became the first school in the world to buy a Kindle e-reader for every student Because it thought Kindles would replace textbooks

But current students have revealed the Kindles are rarely – if ever – used.

Student Raymani Hill, A Clearwater High School junior, told ABC Action News most of the students do not take the Kindle’s Home and Claims she did not check one out at all During her first two years at the school.

The Channel reports Clearwater High borrowed against six years of the school’s technology funds to buy 2,300 Kindles for $ 177.66 – and the loan is still being repaid.

Then in 2012 the school’s principal, Keith Mastorides, Requested That the Pinellas County Board of Education allow him to buy another 1,000 Kindle Fires at a cost of $ 169 each, using ‘grants and internal accounts.’

Clearwater High borrowed against six years of the school’s technology funds to buy 2,300 Kindles for $ 177.66

In an email to the News Channel He Said They needed That number Because 20 per cent of the devices are broken each year and are Replaced by warranties or student-purchased insurance.

“They were Frisbees in school. They would break and kids excellant Test Their durability by throwing them across the school, ‘he said.

The schoolgirl Claims to sacrifice 27 English, math and science textbooks on the Kindle – but Raymani Maintains She has never had any of her textbooks on the Kindle.

Records show only 44 Clearwater High students actually checked out a Kindle last year.

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