Linux killer!

[Bill Perkins]

Tim wrote:
> 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.
> 

Heh heh... sounds about right; more reason to install Linux: you can 
keep _much_ better control over the student's systems, and you don't 
have to worry so much about spyware/adware/viruses/worms. To say nothing 
of the maintenance involved; with Fedora, you can keep the systems at 
the level _you_ want in terms of updates and packages.

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