Albatross has company: Computers sit useless for Resta students

by Edin Equality

Hamden High School does not care about your student’s education.

About 5% of college bound students have state of the art computers, software and equipment (the HECA students) while the remaining 95% of students are expected to learn the same curriculum (i.e. CAD – computer aided drafting, technology) without computers… seriously, as you can see CAD really requires a computer.

This has been going on over 18 months. Dan Cocchiola, Director of HECA, forgot to order computers for the only teacher teaching the rest of the students (HECA versus Resta). For nearly 2 years now, Hamden High School students are getting absolutely no computer education. They were assigned chromebooks. Chromebooks are not CAD-capable computers. 

Superintendent Gary Highsmith has been aware of this.

They finally found some computers, spent months rewiring the room (rather than moving the teacher would have taken 5 minutes) . Only to find out the computers are too old to run the CAD software.

Those computers sit on the students’ desks at the moment unused because they are not functional.

All this while Dan Cocchiola may have been too busy consulting with the new school system he is moving to, sacrificing the education of the students he is actually responsible for at Hamden High School. I cannot believe nobody cares that 95% of the students are receiving no hands-on actual computer experience for almost 2 years.

These students are basically expendable since the administration believes they will not attend college. Those 5% college bound are treated like gold.

This is educational discrimination.