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Why Tim Cook’s old high school is no longer giving students Apple MacBooks

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March 8, 2016 at 3:34 p.m. EST
Azaleas bloom in front of CF Taylor Alternative School, site of Tim Cook's old high school in Robertsdale, Alabama. (Photo by Jeff Haller for The Washington Post)

For years, every student at Robertsdale High in tiny Robertsdale, Ala., was given their own Apple MacBook to use at school and at home.

It seemed like a fitting nod to Robertsdale High's most famous graduate, Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Class of '78. His journey from small-town Alabama to the helm of the world's most-valuable company was chronicled in a story in today's Post.