I'm sure that all of the surrounding counties are going through the same budgetary crisis that Loudoun is right now. Loudoun's Board needs to get rid of 80 million to keep the tax rate somewhat reasonable. We all sit around wondering where they will go (after they take our raises of course!). One newspaper quoted one of the board members as she was watching a Promethean demonstration as saying that we should go back to chalk. She said that she learned physics just fine without all of this technology and that chalk doesn't use electricity.
I'm not sure how to feel about that. On the one hand, the Promethean boards are certainly enhancing my classroom capabilities. But on the other, they are riddled with technical difficulties, cheap wiring that is causing numerous problems, and quite certainly half of our faculty still isn't using them. I wouldn't want to give mine up, but when the alternative is losing programs...
Will they stop the installation of these boards? Can they? Who will fight for them?
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Each county in Virginia I think has problems similar to yours. In King George we have a huge budget mess. We have had to eliminate subs on a regular basis at most schools. Cut back hours of supporting staff and cut non essential personnel.
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