That's absolutely disgusting. Philadelphia's public schools are as unstable, out-of-wack and under-funded as ever (trust me on this one), and THIS is what they're pouring money into. It's not even the MS aspect that gets to me the most, really. More / better teachers, smaller classes, upgraded infrastructure? No, of course not, what was I thinking, sheesh... I could not agree with M. O'brien more on this one.
quote:
Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
Insane...computerize everything whether it needs computerization or not. Forget teachers, technology is the key to education.
%$^#
:mad:
I haven't posted here in a long time, but one of the last ones i made mentioned our school "upgrading" to XP. It's insane. Explorer barely runs and crashes often when it does, and on top of that our "network administrator" has tried to disable the command prompt for some reason, so most people can't use that instead of explorer. Yeah, it's that bad. (He hasn't succeeded, but that's a different story...). And then permissions and security settings keep messing up so we can barely manage our work on some of them as it is (Explorer wouldn't let me make a new folder, but MS Paint would. He found that very interesting). There's a ton more but it would be a waste of time and space to post it.
Oh, but one last thing: Refalm hit the nail on the head on this one. the students at my school are constantly downloading crap, finding ways around the security settings (hehe.. for example, now, once you find command.com [find, hell, it's not even hidden], you can do anything. I'm not sure what to do with that right now), playing games (that has become some sort of blasphemy), and so on. Linux would make it a breeze to fix all that, and yet they keep struggling with windows, and getting mad when we figure out ways around their blockades. :rolleyes:
