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To: Ian@SI who wrote (24498)	9/21/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

OT >> This is definitely not an either / or situation. It definitely is a both / and situation. There is absolutely no reason why schools shouldn't allocate appropriate percentages of their budgets to both books and PCs.<< Unfortunately, in many school districts it is indeed an either/or situation. Given growing student populations and the voters' refusal to raise taxes, a dollar spent on computers is a dollar that isn't available for books, and vice versa. >>Becoming computer literate may be the most important skill the school system could impart to kids. ... and today that takes PCs.<< More important than reading? More important than being able to think and analyze data using logic and scientific principles? More important than being able to distinguish fact and opinion in a newspaper article or television program? I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one. Katherine