Camels will take only so much weight before they simply sit down and quit. No amount of prodding will move them. They bite and spit. Oddly enough, some teachers are like that too. Board members asked Principals and they in turn asked the teachers.
Education is business driven.
One of our goals is supposed to be preparing young people for the workforce, with learning coming in second. When business adopted the computer, it was only a matter of time until they showed up in the school. An upward event spiral if you will. As a teacher myself I can say we are very often terrible in communicating with each other, no matter how well we work with the kids. Devote an entire staff meeting to the issue.