We provide in-service programs for administrators, teachers, and counselors and workshops for parents. We are implementing distance learning programs and have some computer-based curricula. We are aware that technology grows in importance every day and is a necessary tool in the real world. Dr. Carol Doucet, Technology Coordinator for the Montgomery public schools, says that the public schools have responded to the computer age with a variety of programs. First, every student before graduating has to take one course in computer applications.
Students can take some advanced courses before graduating.
At Jeff Davis students can take a class in computer networking from an instructor who completed the instruction class offered by Microsoft. Booker T. Washington Magnet School has a whole curriculum in computers and applied technology that has a super reputation. All Montgomery junior high schools have changed the old shop course that many of us remember. Instead there are banks of computers and more than a dozen workstations at which students can experience different technologies. No longer will every child build a birdhouse - more likely a hyperdrive for your Millennium Falcon.