With teachers grading parents, the buck will be passed accordingly. There are a couple of good ideas in the hopper. Although Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins wants a fiscal review of colleges and universities, no one is minding the finances of the state's biggest-spending sector. Yes, and ignorance is bliss. Until Nevada gets a handle on the billions laid out for schools, it's folly to talk about raising taxes or boosting budgets.
Computers can be great tools for learning.
They're not much use piled up outside in the rain, however. That was the situation last month at a Russell Road bus yard where hundreds of district computers were dumped. Before the recent deluge, an enterprising reader photographed the carnage and found that more than half of the computers tested still worked. While some were ancient Apple IIes, newer models were among the flotsam and jetsam. But instead of wholesaling or donating the equipment, the whole lot was trucked off to the landfill.