

I was a teacher 2010-2018 and witnessed this all first hand. The delapidated computer lab, missing keys on the keyboards, half the computer chairs broken, stolen ram, all the classics.
The laptop cart with 12 sluggish laptops, 6 of which work.
The federal grant spent almost exclusively on Apple products, including a half dozen iPad carts (40 iPads in each). The thousands of student hours spent on garage band and taking pictures of their face.
Followed by the Chromebook revolution. A Chromebook, a googledrive account, shared docs with classmates, a variety of presentation formats, and wikipedia + google actually returning scholarly sources, that was the golden age of student collaboration and using computers to learn. They didn’t really learn anything about computers, except the clever ones who sought it out.
I’m glad I didn’t have to see what COVID did to the struggling education system and the dedicated teachers who keep it operating. We’ve all been through so much these last few years but it has been a complete upheaval for students and teachers















Mexico full of energy in the first half