Setting up iPad accounts for school teachers

I am working on rolling out iPads for 30 teachers at my school. Note that while I am my elementary school's instructional tech, I am not in any way a tech guru. Just the guy that was put in the position
In a nutshell; we acquired 30 iPad 2 devices for our school. We are rolling them out as quick as we can. We are putting apps on the devices and we really do not want to lose the apps whenever a teacher leaves the school as the iPads are the property of the school, not the teacher. My dilema is this; do I set up each teacher with their own iTunes account using our district email (which we will retain if that teacher leaves) or if I should simply create 5 generic accounts and put 6 devices (I believe that is the limit) on each account; if a teacher leaves I easily have the apps that I have purchased for the device returned.
Thoughts?
I personally like the first idea as it seems the most 'personable' and teachers will be more likely to really use something that they have absolute control over. The second idea seems like a lot of micromanaging for me as I would pretty much have to either download all apps myself or I would have to have the password changed evertime a teacher leaves the school.
Thanks in advance.

you best bet would be to contact apple about setting up profile accounts, it allows on user to control 99+ pads under one profile.:http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/

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