EdTech Funding Cut from Proposed FY06 budget

An anonymous reader writes "Bush's proposed FY06 budget eliminates a $500M Enhancing Education Through Technology program that is a major component of many schools' tech budgets. Rural school districts that serve underprivileged populations are going to be especially hard-hit, since they rely so heavily on technology to use educational resources that would otherwise be unavailable."

Comments

So What?

[DesScorp]

Here's a radical idea; how about making sure that kids can handle pencil-and-paper science and mathematics before we throw computers at them?

And let's be honest...short of some vocation training (typing, basic word processor-spreadsheet usage), what will kids use computers for that they can't get with books and a live teacher?