Donation puts new computers in classrooms at St. Paul Parochial As many as one of every two students will have a personal computer at St. Paul Parochial School after the school received a substantial donation recently. The school received 81 computers this spring from Household Credit Services, and the efforts of Phil Clark and parent Jim Maddock. We had been hoping to replace the old computers in the lab and then be able to install additional ones in the classrooms.
Every teacher also has a computer.
Since they were used, the company had to take off all the operating systems. But St. Paul also received a donation of software from Microsoft, enabling students to write and prepare reports, do research on the Internet, and use educational software to practice math, reading and problem solving skills. We have a filtered Internet system and right now some of the classrooms have no Internet access because they didn't have the computer. This will let them get on for research and just for learning. Having computers for teaching almost seems to be a necessity for today's students.