Computer-illiterate teachers?

I read that teachers in Idaho are pushing back on requirements that they become computer savvy (NY Times, Jan. 3).  While the Idaho Statesman, a local newspaper, writes this off as politics (there are always at least two sides in these matters), blaming it on legislators pandering to high-tech companies (apparently they contributed to some school superintendent's election campaign), it reminds me that I've heard about teachers resisting technology even in high tech areas like the Northeast...