By and large, teachers are not a bright lot.
Actually, in my experience, the teachers appear to be just fine; it's the administrators that are the muddled bunch. Granted, that might have something to do with those above them (could well be); but it appears that the further you get from the classroom, the farther you get from the whole point of education -- and by this I mean both in the educational field as well as outside (post-graduation, get a job, have kids, expect someone else to raise them...).
It's one of the reasons that I refuse to live by the sysadmin adage of "a good sysadmin never need be in the field". I'd rather be in the field, it reminds me of why I have the job I do, who it is I (ultimately) work for and what the point of it all is.
Perhaps we'd be better without constantly chasing technology into the classroom for the sake of modernization (personally, I agree -- much as a smoker, I agree with banning the sale of tobacco products completely, it sounds hypocritical, considering my profession, but there you go); but until that happens someone from up above keeps making the decision to spend the money on this shiny crap. It's not the teachers. And its those teachers that are forced to re-evaluate their procedures around this new influx of technology every year. "Oh, what? Now I'm supposed to hand out netbooks and use a SMART board?" "Wait, what? Now you're taking away my Dells and giving me iPads the week before classes resume?"
Think about it from all sides. Until the powers that be (which includes the voting public) truly give a rat's ass about the education of the next generation; we're getting exactly what we've asked for.