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Friday, April 22, 2005
Cobb Computers: Everybody Has an Opinion
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Cobb County plan to give laptop computers to middle and high school students as well as teachers has predictably become a political mess, with Cobb County Commission Chairman Sam Olens saying the school board should slow down, because the issue has become too emotional. But, don’t think he opposes the plan, he said. He didn’t mean to imply that.He likes the idea of teachers getting the computers, just not the planned high school pilot program.
School board members voted 4-2 vote last week to move ahead with the first phase of the program, which could distribute 63,000 Apple iBook laptops to all teachers and students in grades 6-12
Olens said he fears the divisiveness created by the laptop plan could erode voter support of a sales tax increase for new roads, bridges and a jail. Should officials elected to positions other than the school board get involved in school issues?
