It takes someone who knows how to write grants. We have a technology director who takes care of the politics and writes grants. She doesn't do any of the configuring work. She focuses on getting money and keeping people happy.
E-rate takes a lot of work, patience, and persistence. The stack of paper work is taunting, but its all worth it in the end.
As someone who works for the technology department in a rural school district, I can honestly say that I believe in E-rate. It has funded our past two network upgrades. Without it, we would be stuck on a painfully slow network with 100mb links to campuses and underpowered NT4 servers.
In a rural district, large technology budgets are not a reality. We have worked up to what we have. Money from taxes is just not like it is in the city, yet we are at the forefront in this town. Our students are equipped to deal with technology in the business world, our teachers are being trained and constantly improving their skills, and we continue to strive to improve.
This summer, E-rate has funded a large upgrade that will give every teacher a VoIP phone and all of the closet and core switches will be upgraded. We have long since been a 3com operation and are continuing. Our older closet switches, 3com SuperStack II's have been in operation for about six years and it is time for them to be replaced. They have run 24/7 and are starting to fail. Without E-rate the money to replace this equipment would simply not exist.
There are always going to be those who abuse the system, but for us it has proven to help us keep up with San Antonio.
I'm going to bite. Does it really matter how long it took for God to create earth? I mean seriously, why be so concerned about it.
Human beings have no concept of time. We've created a system that suits our needs. A system that in which we dictate the rules. God's concepts of days are more than likely vastly different.
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It takes someone who knows how to write grants. We have a technology director who takes care of the politics and writes grants. She doesn't do any of the configuring work. She focuses on getting money and keeping people happy. E-rate takes a lot of work, patience, and persistence. The stack of paper work is taunting, but its all worth it in the end.
As someone who works for the technology department in a rural school district, I can honestly say that I believe in E-rate. It has funded our past two network upgrades. Without it, we would be stuck on a painfully slow network with 100mb links to campuses and underpowered NT4 servers. In a rural district, large technology budgets are not a reality. We have worked up to what we have. Money from taxes is just not like it is in the city, yet we are at the forefront in this town. Our students are equipped to deal with technology in the business world, our teachers are being trained and constantly improving their skills, and we continue to strive to improve. This summer, E-rate has funded a large upgrade that will give every teacher a VoIP phone and all of the closet and core switches will be upgraded. We have long since been a 3com operation and are continuing. Our older closet switches, 3com SuperStack II's have been in operation for about six years and it is time for them to be replaced. They have run 24/7 and are starting to fail. Without E-rate the money to replace this equipment would simply not exist. There are always going to be those who abuse the system, but for us it has proven to help us keep up with San Antonio.
I'm going to bite. Does it really matter how long it took for God to create earth? I mean seriously, why be so concerned about it. Human beings have no concept of time. We've created a system that suits our needs. A system that in which we dictate the rules. God's concepts of days are more than likely vastly different.