I bought an ipad for work in class at sixth from to use along side my mac, get him a laptop or computer!!! I cant stress it enough. The upad will just serve as a distraction!
Its a pain in the arse to do any proper work on and it takes 5 times as longer! I only used it to watch videos and browse the net on the school’s wifi in the end.
Now i’m out of school I use it down the lifeboat station, as a portfolio for photography and i watch netflix in bed on it.
It was never designed to be a tool, you can et a decent spec’d laptop for the cost of one too! I use my ipad more now than I dd at school.
Its mostly just a gimmick and a toy unless you really need it for work, a school kid does not!
The only decent thing it dd was connect to the schools power point projector and let me do keynote presentations with it and piss all over powerpoint!
SO NO! GET HIM A LAPTOP!
If he gets the ipad it will be so easy to sneak into his school and then if he shows it off which is inevitable, it will get nicked or broken