Linux killer!

[Tim]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:46 +0100, malcolm wrote:

> It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does it suck
> 
> Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos and that was it - Ok I did
> point out that they weren't suppose to be watching them at all really
> but that doesn't cut much ice with teenagers.

Methinks that when it comes to vasts amount of money, and students are
supposed to do what they're told to do, that the more things that
reinforce that you have to do what you're told, because you can't do
otherwise, the better.

Yes, I spent something like 12 years working in schools, and it's much
better for the staff when the students buckle and accept that they're
not there to do as they see fit.  Conversely, the more students get
their way, the more they expect that they can do that with everything.
It undermines discipline.

There's swings and balances, and *some* things are optional for
students.  But, if as you've said, they're not supposed to be playing
Yahoo music videos, then they've got to learn to accept that.  It's a
right pain for employers to have to break-in students, now, because the
schools have failed to do that traditional role.

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