I agree. A lot of effort (when we have funding) is put into professional development for teachers and staff (at Eden Prairie Schools ISD272), but some things are still difficult. E.g. at our High school we are limited to teaching certain things based on what the instructor is comfortable with (e.g. kids are using jedit instead of eclipse or xemacs or vi or whatever they want to do java coding). There is an effort for more Linux in schools here, and I encourage those of you who are involved with your schools to encourage the technology departments in that respect. Linux is awesome, and the schools the best place for it to grow. Daniel Taylor wrote: >Well, my 5 year old daughter was complaining when the last Debian >unstable upgrade I did broke KDE, but she didn't stop using the >computer just because it was on fvwm. (KDE is fixed now, and she stopped >complaining). > >It isn't the _kids_ that'll be the problem. The primary focus needs >to be on training the teachers. Most of them will be lost because it >isn't what they are used to. > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list