Linux - Stop holding our kids back

[HROAdmin26]

I don't usually post in here, but this just made my jaw drop. Just when you *think* the world is getting a *little* smarter, you see someone like this that is "teaching" the kids...

Helios Blog

[schwim]

That explains why our children are being bred to be unquestioning incompetents. The fact that she didn't know what linux was is not alarming since, like it or not, it's still a geek's OS, but the fact that she wrote that letter with absolutely no research is the ultimate "T3H WIN!!" aspect of the whole thing.

On the other hand, if you ever thought that the school was working with you in preparing your children for the real world, then you should have your head checked.

[elija]

Holy ****ing ****!

If a child of my family was being taught by that ignoramus.

I actually find it hard to believe that a teacher seeing a child being excited about and exciting other children about independent learning setting about crushing it. On the other hand, Microsoft sponsor our local state school so maybe I'm not that surprised.

[schwim]

I actually find it hard to believe that a teacher seeing a child being excited about and exciting other children about independant learning

Clearly Elija got so incensed at the injustice, he left half of that sentence inside his head

[elija]

Clearly Elija got so incensed at the injustice, he left half of that sentence inside his head

So Angry I hit post instead of Advanced!

Gotta love the edit button

[SkittleLinux18]

if a child of my family was being taught by that ignoramus...

hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GNU-Fan]

I think this is just a joke in order to get more visits.

But it is a funny one.

No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.

I want a t-shirt with this quote on the front. And a GNU head with a blinking eye on the back.

[elija]

I think this is just a joke in order to get more visits.

But it is a funny one.

That was my first thought too, but honestly, Microsoft sponsor our local secondary school. It's even called the Microsoft Academy. I am willing to bet that the kids there are taught all about FOSS in a completely unbiased manner. Not!

It is that fact that leads me to believe the blog entry could most probably be true.

[techieMoe]

Wow....just.. wow. Even if this is a joke, I've grown up around public schools in the US (both my parents and my wife are teachers) and I can tell you that this mentality is very prevalent. It's sometimes the teachers, but more often it's the campus administrators, since they're the ones that set the rules. Often times the teachers themselves know more about technology than the campus "technology aide."

My father (who is computer savvy) has run sideways of many a school "technology person" because they often blindly believe things they were told by the administrators. On more than one occasion he's been told with a straight face that Macintosh computers cause viruses and aren't compatible with the school's networks, or that any machine not running Microsoft Windows is a security risk because they can't install their volume-licensed copy of McAffee or Norton on it.

Having seen my family deal with such gross incompetence and parroted rhetoric I find it quite easy to envision a teacher or administrator staring a student down and proclaiming in no uncertain terms that "No software is free." It's sad, it's scary, but it's not unrealistic.

[arinlares]

Wow. Madness.

I've got nothing to say that hasn't been already, but, wow... I'm shocked that the administrator didn't think software could be free.