Dianne Reuby wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:19 +0000, Stephen O'Neill wrote: > >> I hear that a number of network admins are teachers that fell into the >> role part time through a coincidence of knowing how to use a computer, >> not because of their being specialists. I imagine that it's only the >> larger schools that have budgets to staff the role full time, and I >> haven't personal experience of how they go about filling their positions. >> > Not so long ago I did a DTP course - the teacher couldn't help on a > question I had, she was a maths teacher. Admin had said basically "DTP > is computers, computers do maths, therefore the maths dept will teach > this evening class"! > > Dianne > >
That's really bad. I thought the teachers would at least have a say in it. When I was at secondary school the IT teacher taught a Pascal course (it was covering the basics of Pascal programming on RM Pascal). At least he knew what he was talking about (plus he inspired me into being a technician). Shame I lost touch with him, although if he's reading this, if I mention Lemmings and me being banned from the school network he might recognise my name. Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
