Not sure if I'm delving off topic, but recently I was waiting to give a road safety lecture at an exclusive school and in the room was a teacher holding a student council meeting. And they were discussing how lugging heavy bags around was an OH&S issue and were brainstorming how to get around the issue. A few joked to get rid of text books then one said "why not have the school supply us each with an iPad?" - and the room fell silent. The teacher running the group said that was a great idea and would put up the suggestion to the board.
One month later the school received delivery of 2,500 iPads.....!

Information in text books can be loaded onto a iPad - and I see the use of it as more of a luxury than a need - so yeah, I would say they were privelleged. Will they gain any further advantage from that alone? I think its purely up to the indivdual to use the opportunities presented to them.