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Just a week after it began the first phase of putting iPads in the hands of all 640,000 students in the state, the Los Angeles school district already has a fight on its hands. In a matter of days, 300 children at Theodore Roosevelt High School managed to work around protective measures placed on the Apple tablets, giving them complete access to features – including Facebook, Twitter and other apps – that should otherwise have been blocked.
Students bypassed the security lock on the device by deleting a personal profile preloaded in the settings – a simple trick that has the school district police chief recommending the board limit the rollout before it turns into a “runaway train scenario.” For now, officials have banned home use of the iPads while they assess ways to better restrict access – they would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.
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Via: Fox News
Source: LA Times