Technology leaders can often be heard talking about Return on Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as they extrapolate complex formulas as documentation for their board of directors. This brief article argues that these metrics are merely indicators corporate CIOs use to rationalize the need for more money to grow their personal empires, and that public education has now bought into this same madness. The author proposes two new measures unique to public education: ROA and TCI. ROA, or Return on Achievement, would measure how the investment in technology moves the core mission of the district forward. TCI, or Total Costs to Instruction, would indicate the expenses incurred in operating the technology department.