[K12OSN] Why Linux?

[Brian Chase]

last few times I "stood up" to management didn't work out so well.

Underemployed now for the last four years, know where I can find a job 
setting up K12LTSP for classrooms?

I'm not a teacher, but I've been following LTSP and similar technologies 
for the last 3 years.

Brian Chase
networkr0 at cfl.rr.com



David Trask wrote:

>"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
>Thursday, November 04, 2004 at 5:11 PM +0000 wrote:
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>>Oh, David.  How sheltered you are.  You are lucky that the school board 
>>allows you to make such decisions.  I have not been allowed that 
>>luxury.  Many school boards around here, especially in the smaller 
>>schools, want their hand in everything.  A few years ago, a school board 
>>member created his own technology committee because he was not happy 
>>with what I was doing here.  School boards that set policy and then get 
>>out of the way are not the norm.  (That is how it should be, but that is 
>>not the way it is in most cases.)
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>It must be a Maine thing....because nearly every school system I know
>about around here...keeps their hands off the IT stuff for the most part. 
>Maine people are notorious for "hating" micromanagement.  They don't
>tolerate it in business and as a result in education either.  I had a
>"micro-manager" for a principal when I worked at another High School in
>the 90's.....she lasted about 2 years and then the school board gave her a
>vote of "no confidence" and canned her because the staff had enough of her
>"micromanagement".  Sometimes in tough budget years my school board will
>nickel and dime things a bit, but they don't tell me what to buy....just
>how much I have to buy it with.  There are a lot of schools in Maine using
>K12LTSP....most of them didn't say "I'd like to install Linux thin-clients
>in classrooms"....they said...."I'd like to put more computers in
>classrooms so kids can have more access to technology"....when asked how
>much it would cost....they said "for the most part...nothing as we'll be
>recycling some older machines and using some donations".  And then they
>just did it.  Things worked and everyone is happy.  Someone needs to stand
>up to the school board and let them know that those are not their
>decisions to make.....get the taxpayers involved in your cause (I know
>it's easier said than done, but it works...I've done it on other issues)
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>David N. Trask
>Technology Teacher/Coordinator
>Vassalboro Community School
>dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
>(207)923-3100
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