On 10/29/05, Bill Perkins <perk@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Problem is, thats going to make Linux-haters out of the students. The students are going to find something else to waste their time on. Might as well let them waste it on something that will make them love Linux. Even better, if you can break the video downloads somehow in windows and let them use that for a week before you switch them over to linux. Then they will really love linux. Dotan http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_hdtv.html
