{"id":18328,"date":"2025-08-23T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18328\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:32:09","slug":"your-money-questions-can-my-sons-school-insist-that-we-buy-him-an-ipad-though-its-exclusive-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18328\/","title":{"rendered":"Your money questions: \u2018Can my son\u2019s school insist that we buy him an iPad though its exclusive supplier?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Plus, life insurance and income protection queries\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The use of tablets in schools is becoming more common. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IB student with iPad.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The use of tablets in schools is becoming more common. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q My son is starting secondary school and, like last year with my daughter, we are required to buy an iPad, keyboard case, and stylus through the school\u2019s exclusive supplier. This is despite the fact that some items seem unnecessary and could be bought cheaper elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Can schools insist on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus, life insurance and income protection queries The use of tablets in schools is becoming more common. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[12003,2107,18,117,19,3912,17,2108,2090,4172],"class_list":{"0":"post-18328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-back-to-school","9":"tag-charlie-weston","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-insurance","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-money-experts","16":"tag-pensions","17":"tag-schools"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}