IPads in Educations: Schools and Apps

Hi,
We are a school in Ireland and would be considered a 'Digital School'. We've been using tablet PC's for teaching for years and now are interested in iPads. However, being an avid Apple supporter I believe Apple are not yet ready for the educational sector as per their conditions of use.
The way it is:
All teachers should have their own account for their iPad and if they want apps they have to buy them and only legally share 5 times (what school has 5 teachers).
Students may have to pay for this apps too.
Teachers cannot see what the students are doing on their iPad, they may as well be using a phone in class i.e. games, messenging etc.
The way it should be:
Teachers can use a viewer to see what the kids are lookig at i.e. SmartSync on a PC.
All iPads should be able to enter a 'digital classroom' where once they i.e. input their code, they can only usewhat the teacher designates. We'd a trial with the iPad and a small number of students and low and behold didn't his friend in England try to Skype him mid-lesson. This would create HAVOC if all kids were at it. Apple don't see that kids are kids. They WILL play games when bored in class. This is only a preventative measure. Additionally, by 'signing' into the class, it acts as a registration for the class AND combat truancing.
Schools should be able to set up a special type of account. Let's pretend the name of our school is Conor High School. The schools can buy their apps from the account e.g. [email protected] However, on the apple website, the ICT co-ordinator can link other apple ID's to this account BUT they have to have the same domain e.g [email protected]. That way, apps can be shared in a better and legal manner. Perhaps when the school buys an app, if a 5 licence (currently the norm) 99c then a school licence is perhaps €1.99 or whatever. This would mean that staff can update the apps from their own account, no illegal sharing of the app 52 times (teacher number in my school) and be easier on the IT support. However, ONLY the IT Support guy can purchase the apps from the schools account therefore staff are not buying hunderds of apps for personal use. If they want to, what they click buy it comes from their own account.
There are LOADS more issues that i've experienced if Apple want this to properly succeed. A lot of schools are trying the iPad but they are now trying Android devices too because they have more freedom when it comes to things like this. Apple MAY lose out big time if they don't properly accomdate the needs of a real school, not the theoretical school we all use in our minds when planning things.

You can write the same n the feedback form,that is already been provided in the above posts or else call customer support team and discuss with them with this issue

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