Technology is less important than the teachers (Score 2, Insightful)

A good teacher can teach without technology. In this day and age, many kids have computers at home, and if they don't, lots of libraries do.

My son got in trouble for enabling the IE bar on the taskbar - he got an inschool suspension over it. Why? Because the people who use the technology to teach with didn't understand that it was a feature of the operating system - not something he hacked. He also had to spend time turning a science report into a web page. I hardly think these are things that a) he couldn't learn at home and b) are necessary to a 7th grader.

A good teacher can teach without materials, books, technology - it is the teacher who does the teaching, not the tools/toys. That school district needs to focus on personnel and not technology that's going to be obsolete in a couple of years.