21st Century Tools for 21st Century Schools!

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   Name: Sharon Guzik on Nov 27, 2011

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   Name: Ann Gallager on Dec 3, 2011

   Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Please approve this plan...it is crucial for our schools to upgrade the terribly outdated technology and computers currently in place.

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   Name: Jared Ingersoll on Dec 3, 2011

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   Name: Margaret Weigel on Dec 3, 2011

   Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: As a member of the Medford Public Schools Technology Advisory Committee and as a working professional in educational technology, I strongly support ensuring that Medford's students are adequately prepared for a media-saturated world. Students need to understand how to operate technology and how to effectively collaborate with others using these tools. These skills do not manifest automatically, they need to be taught, and preferably in a thoughtful and safe environment with best practices spelled out. Children from less affluent homes need computer access in school to have a chance of getting good jobs in the future.

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   Name: Mary Finn on Dec 3, 2011

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   Name: Geeta Jain on Dec 3, 2011

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   Name: Ted A. Adams on Dec 3, 2011

   Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: It's important to recognize that this proposal is not a wish list of toys; It is a necessary request to fund the needed tools to support a "baseline" 21st century education.

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   Name: Kathleen Aluia on Dec 3, 2011

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   Name: Matt Haberstroh on Dec 3, 2011

   Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Our students need the technology to achieve their dreams - let's give it to them!

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    Name: Dave Adams on Dec 3, 2011

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    Name: Meryl Perlson on Dec 3, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: The process of allocating $2 million without full consideration of critical needs is short sighted at best, and leaves our students way behind their peers in other districts, and at a disadvantage in the job and college marketplace. Our children deserve a more thoughtful, logical process that reflects the true technical needs of the schools. The $2 million dollar figure won't allow for high school teachers to project media properly, or provide a network robust enough to handle traffic from new computers, or even result in the purchase of all new computers - many will be old machines with shortened life spans. If you are truly serious about supporting quality education in this city, it's time to allocate what is actually needed to reach even a baseline of updated technology. The children are waiting!

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    Name: Kim Leonard on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Michelle Mcgonagle on Dec 4, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: hope this is only the beginning!

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    Name: Lori Gardinier on Dec 4, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: The technology programs in our schools is embarrassing, out of date, and prohibits our children from engaging in the technology that will actually preparing them for life after high school.

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    Name: Jennifer Cardello on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Roberta Cameron on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Donna Brallier-Lincoln on Dec 4, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: I teach students and know how important technology is for the children to advance in their studies.

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    Name: Susan Sterling on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Melissa Bennett on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Alan Peterson on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Kate Adams on Dec 4, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: You can't prepare kids for the world of tomorrow with broken pieces of yesterday.

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    Name: Christina Lever on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Bonnie McFarlane on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Pauline Fiorello on Dec 4, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: How is it that there is talk of borrowing 8.5 million dollars for a new garage in the square......but 3.5 million for a technology upgrade is not seen as necessary by our mayor??????????????

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    Name: Deborah Parker on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Stephanie Geuns-Meyer on Dec 4, 2011

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    Name: Jack Beusmans on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Stephen Braverman on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: no-brainer

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    Name: Lois Grossman on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Both the immediate and the long range goals of this petition are abosultely essential if Medford is to become a school system that is respected. instead of escaped from at the first opportunity

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    Name: Mark DeVoto on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Rachel Rockenmacher on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: The computers, especially, in our city's schools are shamefully out of date and unable to run up-to-date software. Computer skills are now essential for so many careers, and without these resources our Medford students will be at a real disadvantage compared to their peers in more privileged communities. My 10 year-old plans to speak at the meeting about some of the specific problems faced by the lack of resources at the Columbus School and some of the specific resources his peers miss out on, as a result.

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    Name: Bruce Kulik on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Working projectors for the classrooms. Wireless infrastructure district wide. New library computers.

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    Name: Jayne Center on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Our schools need updated technology to have a chance to compete in thier future.

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    Name: Julia Hendrix on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: For too long Medford schools have spent money for capital improvements (like the new schools and their technology) but put no money toward maintaining these improvements. We can't continue to look to something that happened 10 years ago as evidence of having a 21st century school. Please support this technology improvement budget.

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    Name: Kelly Braverman on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: I feel our children would be at a disservice if they don't get the appropriate technology in our schools.

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    Name: Nancy Bojan Quinn on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Timothy Lambert on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: At any open house it is obvious that there is talent in our teachers, but there is a clear need to provide them with the tools they were trained to use to educate our kids in Medford. I work in IT in higher education where upgrades to software and hardware are a standard budget item. Any technology plan must have a maintenance schedule if we are to continue to provide quality education in Medford for all present and future Medford children and not just the ones in the system now.

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    Name: Robert Fitzpatrick on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Kelleyrobin Mulvihill on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Having a kindergartener in the system, it is my priority that she experience the best education she can receive in the community we live in. As an employee in higher education, I live with the the decisions made each and every day at the city level, having students unprepared, or inadequately prepared for College. Technology almost always plays a role with students in these situations.

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    Name: Martin Langer on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Patti Klos on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Emily Keith on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: I have 2 children under 5 and am very concerned about the future of the Medford Public Schools.

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    Name: Gail Airasian on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: George Keith on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Our two children will start entering the medford school system in 2013. I believe technology is critical to success in the modern world.

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    Name: Matt Heaton on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Having a good tech program in the schools will only get more important by the time my son is ready to start.

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    Name: Liesbeth Van Den Berg on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Such a large part of learning happens through technology. Just think about doing research for projects, and learning what's going on in the world around us.

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    Name: Amanda Dameron on Dec 5, 2011

    Comments - Your opinion carries weight, please add a comment!: Up-to-date and properly integrated and presented technology is crucial to education. If Medford wishes to retain and increase property values, well-regarded and technologically modern schools are a good step in the right direction.

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    Name: Tuyet C. Lech on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Paula Cicoria on Dec 5, 2011

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    Name: Erick Crowell on Dec 5, 2011

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