[cmaccoy]

Mastercam is a pretty user friendly software (won the ease of use award a couple years ago...) i think thats good for your students.. Also i think you should get one of the routers on the site Sanddrag suggested (i've never seen them that cheap, thats awsome). Routers are also usually what schools purchase. But if you ever have the chance to get a 4 or 5 axes machine i'd take it because those are probably the coolest things ever.