New IPod 2010 » iPod rewards http://www.ipodfan.com Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:42:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Florida School district suspends iPod rewards http://www.ipodfan.com/ipod-touch/florida-school-district-suspends-ipod-rewards.html http://www.ipodfan.com/ipod-touch/florida-school-district-suspends-ipod-rewards.html#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:30:49 +0000 ipodfan http://www.ipodfan.com/?p=139 Schools in Florida’s Polk County have halted a program to give new Apple iPods to parents of children with disabilities for filling out a survey, officials said.

The school district intended to offer them as a reward to parents who would fill out a 10-minute online survey, Bay News 9 in Tampa Bay, Fla., reported Thursday.

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The state survey was to ask 26 questions about how well the child’s school partners with parents of students with disabilities, Florida’s The Ledger reported.

The money for the iPod Nanos, $350,000, was to come from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, but Florida education officials informed the district the money could not be used in that way, Bay News 9 said.

“We’re discontinuing the program because the money has to be used directly for the students and not to the parents,” Assistant Polk County School Board Superintendent Nancy Woolcock said.

The intention was for parents to give the iPods to their children, not keep them for themselves, she added.

Woolcock said it was still a good idea, and she hoped to get iPods for disabled students next year.

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