They would be silly to abandon a model that is still well sold. Bleek Basically schools are stupid. They keep buying outdated calcs when they could spend an extra 10 to get a better model. Man, schools are stupid period. I think TI offers them a special deal with 82's so that may be why they buy them.
Schools are stupid.
Like I want this to take what little funding the science department gets. Boy, schools sure are stupid. But no stupider than you, man. I know of teachers who can only figure ut one calculator, but students by the point of high school should be educated enough to read a simple manual. They never read any of the specs because they don't understand any of them.