Re: Save the Apple ][gs - CONTACT your local schools...

[John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu (John L. Graham)]

Our local grade school just got a boat load of new computers. Same old
story... lot's of slick new software (which will be old "look at what our
poor students are being forced to use" software in a few years) that I'm not
quite sure what they're supposed to be learning from they weren't learning
already. To be sure they're entertaining and the kid's luv'm (which is worth
something I guess), but educational? I'm not all that convinced. Worth what
we paid for them (after passing yet another levy for a school system that's
still letting teachers go)? I seriously doubt it. I have yet to see computers
meaningfully integrated into an educational program. My sampling is
admittedly small (just what I've seen locally) but it seems to be the same
story over and over again. "Here's your new computers and some software, now
go and teach with them. Oh, by the way, your class will be hooked up to the
Internet next week so you'll have something to do with all that empty time
you had in the day."

Ack! And it's not even Friday :/

-John