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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tom wrote: > My girls primary school (150 headcount) appears to be going to pay > £25000 for BB over the next couple of years!! > I haven't approached the head for exact figures but this sounds > horrendous. > Any comments - I've obviously done the really expletive on pretty > comprehensively myself. > Tom te tom te tom > > I guess schools are paying for a one size fits all solution, many schools can't afford a tech, and a lot of issues arise when equipment fails, lessons can get really messed up i guess if your lesson plan is set around an interactive white board and laptop, either fail and you are stuck. It's one less thing to worry about, RM. BT, Microsoft are all well known to schools, so they just go with that is known. Which is why as a lug we can do as much as we can to promote alternatives, but we need to promote the whole package perhaps, give people links to the companies and case studies that have made OSS solutions work in schools. if there is an issue, phone up tech support and get help fixing it. or they send someone out. I think the only way you are going to get change is to take a huge salary cut and become a Teaching Assistant or similar, or perhaps a school tech, go in and see what its like day to day, then try and make changes once you are inside. Or perhaps become a school governor or something Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/drupal6, - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktUuA0ACgkQaggq1k2FJq0c8wCfSVQks5375/omXEtjGxm/K/+N KCgAmwVM7TDyyJ7Z/7HbldfEQjAQkzHg =ch+Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html