The bogometer needle reaches into the red zone. Alan November, a consultant for the Glenbrook high schools in Illinois, believes that today's students are in the test-preparation business. That one pegged my bogometer. I'd discount such high-tech mumbo jumbo except that there are so many believers. Parents walk away from schools satisfied if they merely see computers in the classroom.
Principals plead for budgets large enough to bring interactive media into their schools.
Many teachers are cowed by consultants sporting fancy degrees. School board members apply for grants to bring networks into local districts. Lost in this promotion are students. Not every kid wants to spend hours at a keyboard. Some bump into the same kind of frustrations that adults feel.