[K12OSN] Why Linux?

[Jim Hays]

David Trask wrote:

>I'm perplexed....what the hell is a SCHOOL BOARD doing making IT
>infrastructure decisions?  My school board makes decisions regarding
>policy, curriculum issues (to some degree), budget, and some central
>office stuff like approving the warrant and hiring the
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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.)