In the second-floor computer lab, David Riley Jr. faces a similar dilemma.
Riley says he wants to get started on an electronic daily bulletin with birthdays and announcements that students would assemble from around the school.
"They'll do a 'roving reporter,' " he says.
Riley has the software he needs to help other teachers who bring their classes to the lab, including a language-building program called Wiggle Word.
But the new computers have not arrived yet and most of the old ones cannot run the software he wants to use. The machines were promised at the beginning of September but likely will not arrive until the end of the month.
"I've got a lot of ideas for [the lab]," he says. "I'm running right now but there's not much students can do."
Some teachers are missing something even more basic: textbooks.
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