TAMPA BAY, Fla., Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Schools in Florida's Polk County have halted a program to give 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.
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.
