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[Scott Kane]

From: "Jeff Reynolds" <jeff at siphonophore.com>

> 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