How different would it be going from an Australian private school to a Japanese public school?

It would be rare for state schools to do that, but it is happening in private schools. Still, I'd rather buy the iPad outright for a few hundred dollars than spend $20,000+ to get one through a private school. My children (years 9 and 11) each received a laptop from the school this year, but they remain the property of the school.

My son received an IPad from his public primary school two years ago, but it does technically belong to the school. When he finishes primary school we have an option to buy it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.