Classroom Computers

This article (Best Teacher May Be a Student, July 25) is an insult to the teachers of America! I happen to be an elementary teacher in the Los Angeles area and I am quite experienced in working with computers.

I feel very comfortable teaching and utilizing computers with my students in the classroom. I would also judge my colleagues as being quite competent. At my school, the barrier is not untrained teachers.

Rather, it is the technology itself. Our computer lab has only 15 computers (many of which are broken) while I have 32 students. Our computers are also very old--the same type I used while in high school.

YVONKA L. KOLEFF

Lakewood

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And one via U.S. mail . . .

Never before have I seen so many Asian surnames together on one page in the Times (Taste of the Real World, July 11). One reality about government that the students from South Pasadena didn’t learn about in the simulation--although they probably knew it from firsthand experience--is the role that ancestry plays in political representation.

The absence of Asian Americans--especially Koreans and other fairly recent arrivals--from the social and political dialogue in this country is conspicuous.

CHIN WOO JUNG La Canada Flintridge