D.P. Cooper Elementary School Principal Dr. Kerry Singleton speaks during a program on Monday, March 12 in the school?s gymnasium. Singleton said the school?s new computers will allow its students more time working with technology.? ?
SALTERS, S.C. --
D.P. Cooper Elementary School is facing many of the same problems that are not uncommon to other schools in the state. Low funding, decreasing enrollment are just a few of the obstacles rural schools face on a daily basis.?
On Monday, March 12, though, the pastoral school announced they would be recipients of an abundance of technical equipment from a state program designed to bring technology into the classroom.?
90 computers and five industrial printers will soon make their home at D.P. Cooper thanks to South Carolina?s Computers for Learning program, which provides schools with computers and other ancillary technology.?
D.P. Cooper Elementary School?s principal, Dr. Kerry Singleton, said the new equipment will provide a much needed boost in the technology available to the school?s students.?
The school, which averages 25 students per classroom, will use the computers to provide each student with a higher quality of computer and technology training.?
?For the classroom purposes, we?ll now advance from only four or five computers in each classroom to now having at least 12 to 15 computers in each classroom,? Singleton said. ?Our computers will now be faster and a much better fit for the students.??
Currently ? without the new computers ? students are forced to rotate through their usage of the school?s inventory of computers, resulting in diluted time and instruction with the machines.?
Singleton said the school expects to have the computers and all auxiliary equipment installed within the next two weeks.?
Until then, though, the school will continue to celebrate what some believe to be a coup of sorts for D.P. Cooper Elementary.?
Lashanda Keels, the school?s curriculum specialist was the school?s point-woman for attaining the computers and now, she can?t stop smiling.?
Keels said that through a great deal of research and, most of all, persistence, the school is on the fast track to becoming a more technologically savvy institution.?
?We were very dedicated to the task,? Keels said. ?We kept at it for four months and then we received notification that we would be receiving the computers? We were very fortunate to receive the 90 computers.??
During the announcement, Singleton outlined why the computers are so important for the rural school and continuing their goal of educating students while enduring economic problems.?
?During these times of ? like I said ? economic hardship and with low monies coming into our district, we?re trying to be proactive and trying to find ways that we can still keep up our high academic standards at D.P. Cooper Elementary School,? Singleton said. ?
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