Left Lane Ends

Here’s what I’ve found in 15 minutes after listing to the program:

Google Map of Liverpool, NY, Website of Liverpool Schools, Liverpool Laptop Webpage, NPR Talk of the Nation, Liverpool High State Report Card, Liverpool High 3rd Year Eval on Laptop Program

Pardon my French, but their district website is atrocious, the webpage for their laptop program is atrocious, they are primarily a white district with a low percentage of free/reduced lunch students, the laptop program is self-described as ‘voluntary’, at the MOST, only 70% of the students in 11th/12th grades would have had computers (although it’s hard to track), and according to their 3rd year evaluation (of which most discussion is related to percentages) less than half of the participants actually responded to the survey(s) that they used in the eval of the program.

This is a small program, a drop in the bucket. It sounds like it was not very well thought out, and it is now giving larger, better planned programs a bad name.

In addition, the it seems like the Assistant Superintendant of Instruction is the driver behind this vehicle of death (clear agenda to destroy the program).

 Thanks for the bad rep.

1:1 laptop programs are getting a good bit of national press (negative) lately and here is a 1/2 hour program on the topic from NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’. I’m in the middle of listening, so I’ll comment later…