Infrastructure for Technology:
Today, like many U.S. cities across America, school districts are facing problems with crumbling infrastructure. The only difference is that the cities are dealing with sewer, streets, roads, and water issues, while schools are dealing with a technology issue. But what is a school to do when there is no money or support for improvement? My communities answer, add turf to an already stellar football field. It's sad when the school board and many common citizens can see the winds of change and still nothing is done to improve an already meager situation in our small community. A community that prides itself for producing successful individuals despite the mistakes that continue to be made from the top up. The improvement in bandwidth and switching to fiber optics is something that should have been done years ago when the technology reached school districts in the area. Also, economic times, during the early period of this fiber revolution would have saved us the headaches that we are having to deal with today. Whatever decisions are made in the district all hang by a tethered string that will have to be replaced for it cannot be knotted over and over again. Our needs as a district will hang on the stubbornness of a constituency that does not see the big problems in the near future. Without expansion of bandwidth all technology goals might as well be written in sand.