document.write("  <table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4> <tr> <td bgcolor=eeeeee>   <h3><font face=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif>Reader Comments   <\/font> <\/h3> <a href=\/news\/getcomments.cfm?id=145465>Submit your comments and photos<\/a> (photos optional)<\/td> <\/tr>  <tr>      <td>        <table width=98% border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2 align=center>         <tr align=left valign=top  bgcolor=eeeeee>            <td width=98%><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><b>Barbara Ann Millett, Seattle, WA,              - 01\/22\/07<\/b><br>             I am a home user of the computer and think learning things at my age is a good thing but does the school system have a program to teach parents how to use the computer so they can help their children use this tool? I think Gov.King did the right thing by putting computers in the schools. There was pros and cons. I am in my 50s and I once was scare to use a computer but not now. Computers are a must for disabled persons and has school system in Maine made them ADA friendly? If not, they should be. Teaching children to be safe on the computer should be taught to them until it sinks in and they use commom sense.Mum and Dad have to be part of this process in the home.Mum and Dad get over your fear of the computer as it is part of everyday life,like it or not. Children should also have a duty to do the right thing here and help their parents underatand the computer. There are books to teach computer basics to adults in simple easy to understand english. Buy one and make sure it covers OS platform you or children school computer uses at school. It is worth the money to know how to use the computer safely. I have bought easy to understand books to use computer as I did not grow up with it. Book stores sell the computer books that are helpful in learning to use this tool. You bought s home computer to use but it don't come with how to this or that book. I can't tell you what books to buy as I don't what you need to know but there are persons where you  are that can. Have a nice a day and be safe at the computer always.<\/font> <br><\/td>         <\/tr> 					  			   			  <tr align=left valign=top  bgcolor=ffffff>            <td width=98%><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><b>Bill A, Bangor, ME,              - 01\/22\/07<\/b><br>             And those laptops only went to 7th & 8th graders in public schools, not ones in private schools (even though the parents of children in private schools pay taxes that support the public schools, too, while the private school tuition requires real sacrifice for the parents to pay it.) Pay more tax than required? I don't think I will. <\/font> <br><\/td>         <\/tr> 					  			   			  <tr align=left valign=top  bgcolor=eeeeee>            <td width=98%><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><b>Andy P., Cutler, ME,              - 01\/22\/07<\/b><br>             The article contains an inaccuracy stating that Gov. King's laptop initiative put the online world at the fingertips of almost all students -- in fact, the initiative provided notebook computers to just 7th and 8th grade students. A good thing, to be sure, but not the same as making the same technology equally available to all school children.<\/font> <br><\/td>         <\/tr> 					  			   			          <\/table>     <\/td>   <\/tr>   <%next%>  <\/table> ");