Do most schools that use/allow TI calculators also allow HP calculators? (college, class)

[Phoenix2017]

A question out of curiosity please, for teachers: do most schools that use/allow TI calculators also allow HP calculators, if a student wants to use an HP model calculator rather than a TI one? For example: if a student wanted to use an HP 48G+, 48GX, 48GII, 49G, or 50G, instead of say a TI-82, TI-83, TI-84, TI-85, TI-86, TI-89, or TI-92?

When I was in school and in college, and while all of my classmates used TI calculators, I was the only student that I know of, who used an HP 48G/GX calculator, so I can kinda remember being the odd duck out, so to speak Don't get the wrong though, TI calculators are also very nice -- it's just that the moment I saw an HP calculator in action, I knew I absolutely had to have one. I was fortunate and blessed that my teachers allowed me to use it -- I cleared my memory each and every time, before I took a test, to ensure that the calculator did not confer any sort of unfair advantage, of course.

Since it's been some years since I was last in school, again I was just rather curious, if teachers are hopefully also still open today in 2014, to students potentially substituting an HP calculator for a TI, if they voluntarily wanted to do so? I tried searching for earlier threads on HP calculators here on C-D, but was unable to find any, so I thought it couldn't hurt to ask

[pobre]

My kid's high school does, as does the SAT: Calculator Policy

[K-Luv]

I used Casios myself, preferred the FX 2.0 but mostly stuck with their scientific calculators as I found that I rarely graphed anything on the calc even through the calculus series. I so wanted an HP but never got around to purchasing one. However, the TI-86, for how dated it has now become, is in my opinion the best non-CAS TI.

The only advantage to having a TI is that TI cornered the education market, teachers are familiar with it, documentation is everywhere, and most likely other students have one, too, so if you are in need of a tutorial you will not travel far to find one.

Every single math class I took "required" a TI-83 or TI-84, but noone said a word to me. So yes, the HP calcs are typically allowed but also typically in-class instruction will be "taught" using the Tis.

[tnff]

I suspect mostly it's that teachers don't know RPN (Never got the hang of it myself; pretty much you either love it or hate it) but do know how to use the TI. Casio is similar to TI.

Oops old thread.