Require full payment prior to releasing iPads.

[texasbookworm]

This would never work in the "real world" - release goods prior to payment and then waste staff time and resources trying to cajole, persuade, arm-twist, and sweet talk customers into paying for the goods that they've already utilized for weeks or months. Good luck collecting that money. We need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot and creating an accounting and record-keeping nightmare. If a student has any outstanding charges, they are not issued a device - simple and necessary. If a student has turned in a device for repair, they don't get it back until the bill is paid. We're supposed to be preparing children for the real world and teaching them to take responsibility. Which scenario do you favor?

[DC]

It's a dilemma. One the one hand, they may need the device for class (hopefully); on the other hand, we end up chasing the familes for payments and then asking for the students to return the ipads.
I know that other districts have implemented these programs on a smaller scale. I would like to know how they handled these situations.