Post 17 -C- Schools Cut Technology Budget

While i was researching for an article about technology, i came across this article of a middle school in Stamford that actually cut their budget for computers and technology. This strikes me as very odd because many other schools across America are increasing their technology budget and this particular one is cutting it. Many schools are putting more money into technology because they know how influential certain programs and technology can be to a students ability to learn. The school district is going to use the money they cut from the technology and computer budget and put it towards other areas of math and reading. I agree that both of these are important, but technology and computers can greatly enhance both of these subjects (it can extremely benefit a reading student). Many of the teachers in these districts are protesting against these cuts and saying that technology is too important to the evolution of education and to cut this critical aspect of school can be detrimental. The school board answer to their pleas is for them to turn their shoulder and say they are not cutting technology, but allowing other subjects to create new ways to use the technology they have. That sounds foolishness to me, but they say their district is in need of more reading and math programs in their school, so who am i to judge. I just can be an outsider looking in on the situation and say that technology budgets need to be increased in all schools, because the benefits of doing so is to great to give up.

Technology can be a great addition to every subject at every grade level and i believe that middle school is an important time for students to learn the benefits of learning technology and how to correctly use them. I know that this article discuss one school, but what about the other schools that do the same thing, how are those students learning ability being affected. It seems like the educational system of that district is limiting themselves and restricting the ability for creative teaching and learning in their schools.

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Another article of the teachers protest against cuts