I was shocked to learn that the Auburn School Committee voted to allocate more than $200,000 to purchase iPads for every new kindergarten student entering school next year.

I am a proud parent of one of those new “iPad kids,” and I am not thrilled about that at all. While the high school crumbles, taxes skyrocket and people leave Auburn (and Maine), taxpayers are now funding a massive test that will benefit no one (except Apple computers of course).

If more technology is to be introduced into the schools (which, by the way, I am all for), how about a simple, less costly approach; one that makes sense and capitalizes on the attention span of a 5-year-old. Buy 20 iPads for every elementary school in the city and rotate them around to every classroom once a week to start introducing the technology to all elementary students.

You could do much more with much less, don’t you think?

Jason Levesque, Auburn