US/ND-5: Re: Week Four Assignments
Re: Week Four Assignments
EricElert@aol.com
Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:47:51 -0400
As an educational technology consultant who has worked with many private
schools with small budgets and big challenges, I have found many are
receptive to banding together to achieve common goals. I'll be presenting to
the Calif. assoc. of private schools conference in November in Anaheim about
how to do that in supporting technology.
Once again, we find that where there's a will there's a way. The cooperation
of schools otherwise not "connected" by any common bond, has been growing
during the past few years.
The students who attend any private school are still kids who deserve equal
learning opportunities with all their peers, private or public. In my former
district, we could not have afforded to provide services if all the kids who
went to private schools suddenly showed up at our public school doorstep. I
always felt a debt of gratitude for the private schools taking some of the
"financial burden" of supporting some students off our shoulders while we
still collected their parents' property taxes.
Eric Willard