From: "Jeff Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
nope, a lot of schools wont do this unless folks like you with the savvy
to figure out how to do this go in and volunteer to do it, you donate the
money for the the copies of osx for their computers, then you will have
to come in and train the teachers how to use the osx, then you will have
to support the new systems, then you will have to probably donate copies
of the osx versions of newer software for them to use since they dont
have the tech personnel or money to do any of this in many cases.
I do understand this and it's a darn shame. I'm not in the USA but we have
the same issues here none the less. I hold a degree in teaching (Primary -
what our USA friends call Elementary) and taught for - wait for it - just
under 30 days before I quit in total disgust at the teachers I worked with
(I met them on rounds during Uni (called Teachers College in those days) but
naively believed it would be different when I was "one of them"). My wife
happens also to be a teacher, though she shows heaps more sense than many of
those I worked with. Recently on TV there was a live audience debate with a
panel of "experts" on technology (none of them were programmers or
technicians but one guy "designed web sites"). One of the members of the
panel was a teacher and she declared "Teachers know everything they need to
know about computers." With that attitude not much seems to have changed
since I was there. Sure there are budgetary constraints and huge problems
with that but in my own experience there is also the element of the "know it
all" who can't be told, knows everything worth knowing and that's the end of
it. Until that changes it won't matter how much money is thrown their way.
It's a vicious circle - and yes I know there are lots of good teachers. But
there are just so many bad ones out there! :-(
Scott Kane
"In painting a tiger you can paint the skin, but not the bones." Confucius
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