Web design question: frames?

[gusmahler]

I'm part of a committee to redesign a website for my daughter's school. The current site uses frames. I was under the impression that no one used frames anymore. I googled the subject and all I could find were old (5+ years old) articles that said frames were bad. Since there isn't a single site that I regularly visit that uses frames, I would assume that the "frames are bad" belief is pretty widespread.

But is that accurate? Or is it just that the sites I normally visit that don't use frames?

Also, what reasons can I give the committee to get rid of the frames other than "nobody uses them."