Kamloops school district gets an education in free software Posted on Linux.com Tuesday June 05, 2007 (05:02 PM GMT) By: Bruce Byfield
The secondary schools used computers as part of their core curriculum, and some of the teaching staff saw the change as the IT department interfering in educational matters that its members didn’t understand. Moreover, although secondary schools in British Columbia are supposed to teach skills rather than specific software, in practice, many teachers had developed courses that specified particular pieces of software. “You get a teacher who’s been around 20-30 years, and they’re not that keen on developing their course again,” Ferrie says in wry hindsight. Also, many schools had already paid for textbooks that referred to specific proprietary software.
Yep. Tell people how much easier to get things done in Linux, that the productivity suites are robust and free, point out that they will still have access to their legacy Windows files, and their final question will be: Will I still be able to run Windows?
