High tech teaching equipment vs. budgets

I wanted to share with you a comical real unfortunate story about high tech equipment for the classrooms and budget.  This took place at a high school but could take place at a university (I hope not). A certain teacher put in a purchase order (P.O.) to purchase an overhead projector for the classroom.  The teacher finds that overhead projectors are still useful for showing students certain mechanical drawings, etc... The administrator refused to process the P.O. because and to quote: "this school district does not buy overhead projectors anymore.  We only buy LCD projectors!" So the teacher proceeded to change the P.O. to request the purchase of an LCD projector realizing that there will be a need to change the teaching tools since slides would now have to be changed to be used via a computer. The teacher submitted the new P.O. and was soon told, sorry, we cannot purchase the LCD projector due to budget constraints! So let us review this scenario - this county public school would not spend the $60 to $80 for an overhead projector because it was "old technology".  The school had to buy an LCD for a few thousand dollars yet they did not have that amount of money in the budget.  So who is getting the short end of the stick in this situation? the students and the teacher? This is a true story.