When a school system chooses to buy into modern computer technology as the way to solve some existing problems and to meet pressing needs, a myriad of new problems and issues are created. However, the new problems are worth solving to allow the system to benefit from the new technology. In other words, the conversion to using the latest computer resources is accompanied by many growing pains, but the end result promises to be sufficiently more efficient and productive to justify the costs. This paper explores seven of the issues which are encountered when a school system implements modern computer technology. (Author)