On Thu, Jan 02, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Edu in linux": > home. The Windows vocabulary has entered our daily Hebrew speech. My kids > (all 10 of them) had to submit a portion of their homework assignments in > .doc format (Gush Etzion school system) for the past four years. My wife > is in a masters program at Touro College and Beit Morasha where the > homework assignments are distributed in Word and the homework must be > submitted in Word. I suggest that you actually go try to talk to these > people about Linux and see what happens.
What you describe is a typical arrogance that appears to pervail in our education system, where kids need to mold themselves into the "system" and not the other ways around. Demands are made on kids without trying to think whether these demands are reasonable for all kids or actually beneficial to any of them. Recently Channel 2 news carried a story about large families (like yours) whose schools demand 500 shekels a year (or more) from each child for school trips. For the school it's much easier and nicer to force everyone to fit this mold and not "cause problems". But what does a person earning 4000 shekels and having "just" 5 kids, do? What does the same person do when his kids' school force his children to write homework on their home computer (so one computer is not enough for all the children, just like one desk is not enough for all of them), or to buy specific software that his childrens' teachers demand? Should this hypothetic guy be told to pirate commercial software? Is that any better than telling him "if you can't afford paying for your kid's school trips, why don't you just rob a bank?" There should not be a "digital divide" inside schools... -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jan 2 2003, 28 Tevet 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I started out with nothing... I still http://nadav.harel.org.il |have most of it. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
