We Must be BATS: Bloggers Against Technology?

O.K., just a quick show of hands: how many of you find it hard to get your heads around the idea that there would be such consensus among South Dakota bloggers (SDP-Schaff, DWC, SDWatch, and yours truly) against the state making every high school kid lug a laptop computer around to class? I'm a little surprised myself.

Consider: here I sit on the most comfortable couch in South Dakota, writing an IT project management midterm on my laptop, taking a break to check my SiteMeter stats (coming up on 15,000! yahoo! keep 'em comin'!), and blogtificating on the perils of making high school education dependent on technology. Mere irony? Rank hypocrisy? Uncommon sense? Commenters, your opinions are welcome...

...but first, do check out the estimable Mr. Epp's take on the flap. And kids (yeah, you, Bulldog hackers!), check out his last paragraph:

Frankly, I applaud the kids in MHS for trying to stick it to The Man. If MHS were smart, they'd put some of these kids on an IT committee to help the district stay ahead of the "threats" our already computer-literate youth can concoct.

Oh, that Epp -- a regular anarchist! ;-)