Linux in schools?

[James Takac]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 05:33:36 Daniel Mons wrote:
> Paul Schulz wrote:
> > .. buy why should the decision makers be interested in anything other
> > than proprietary software?
>
> Call me naive, but one would hope the primary concern of educators is
> the freedom and ability to learn of the children they educate, and not
> kowtowing to proprietary software vendors.
>
> Or is this me being a "raging idealist" again?
>
> I have three young children, one who is rapidly coming up to the end of
> her first year at primary school.  I've got no concerns about the
> technology education she'll receive at home from both daddy and mummy
> dearest.  I worry about the other 500 students in her school, and
> millions Australia wide, after seeing some of the technology ignorance
> out there first hand this year.
>
> -Dan


Hi Dan

Price is another of their concerns. Tis why up here they're teaching the 
students to program with VB6 (Visual Basic 6) as they can get it free now 
legally. I told em "Install Ubuntu on the systems and you can get the updated 
equivalents and a lot more for free. But it aint up to the teachers, instead 
the education department

James