Lies
What Apple and the Limerick Educators are saying doesn't match reality.
There are BETTER printed Irish resources and if you MUST use a screen, a laptop is better and cheaper than the walled Garden iPad.
No screen at all is proven to be best.
70% markup and a walled garden designed purely for browsing content.
It smells of either idiocy or corruption.
Other thoughts:
1) They shouldn't be locked to Apple,
2) They don't need screens except in very few subjects.
3) It's proven to be poorer than education without screens,
4) Anything cloud based should be illegal.
5) The ease of use is a lie. It's just inflexible.