Regional schools all across WA are salivating at the prospect of picking up a fresh overhead projector after Albo announced he would fully fund public schools if re-elected.
Staff all across the state are saying the money is most welcome and would really help to propel them into the 90s in terms of teaching technology.
We spoke to a teacher who taught at a public school in the Wheatbelt who told The Times,
“We’ve already spoken to schools in Morley who have got us onto their supplier. I can hardly sleep thinking about a top of the wazza overhead projector so I just stay up until 6am drawing flow charts of photosynthesis on transparent sheets to project”
Some public schools in the Pilbara are thinking a little bigger and have plans to upgrade to whiteboards too. With one Pilbara teacher telling The Times,
“A lot of the teachers are gee’d up about white boards but I once taught at a school down in Perth and honestly, you just spend half your time trying to find a marker that actually works! No, there’s no need to progress past chalk”
A school in the Goldfields have earmarked some the funding for an upgrade from Windows 95. With strong hopes they’ll get their hands on a copy of XP – the thinking man’s Windows.
Good luck to all regional schools.
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