In LA, 90 percent of administrators excited about IPads, just 36 percent of teachers

This will not surprise anyone (especially if you read the headline), but an anonymous survey taken of Los Angeles educators shows that while 90 percent of administrators loves the idea of IPads for every student, only 36 percent of the teachers feel the same.

Of course, the administrators are the ones who receive all the applause when they bring 21st century technology to the classrooms. The teachers are the ones who have to find ways to use it whether it is appropriate for what they are doing or not.

It would seem Robert J. Moreau, a computer animation teacher who struggled for grants to set up a lab, would be among the first to applaud the $1-billion iPad program in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

But he's not.

"It's outrageous, appalling, that we are buying these toys when we don't have adequate personnel to clean, to supervise," said the Roosevelt High School instructor. "Classrooms are overcrowded, and my room has not been swept or mopped in years except by me and the students.... It would be great if the basics were met. I can't get past that."

Revere Middle School Principal Fern Somoza, meanwhile, praised the effort to provide every administrator, teacher and student in the nation's second-largest school district with the Apple tablets.

"The good-old days are today," Somoza said.

That kind of divide is what we are seeing all across the nation.