> just charge each adult a fee to cover the hardware cost That seems a quick way to discourage adults from taking programming courses. Should they pay for a ch

> just charge each adult a fee to cover the hardware cost That seems a quick way to discourage adults from taking programming courses. Should they pay for a chair and table too? Or a screen? Of course not, that cost is amortised across many classes. It's ridiculous that the Foundation makes bulk purchasing so difficult when the original vision for the RPi was for education. But that was fairly quickly forgotten when it became the darling of hackerspaces and upselling became the priority.