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[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney <alchemist AT darkcanvas.com>]

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 15:00, Paul Cory wrote:
> Here again we hit the staff rub - no the IT staff, but the general 
> staff. They'll need some training as well. Plans will have to be made to 
> get them up to speed: space located, classes scheduled, trainers found, 

Hmm. You've not read Robin Miller's piece on the transition made from a
Windows XX environment to a 100% Linux/KDE environment in Largo,
Florida. Robin says it much more eloquently than I can in the original
story :

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239&mode=thread

> ground and using almost all of the available training labs, it's going 
> to take us 9 months to get all our teachers trained. Implementing Linux 
> would take a similar training effort.

*snip* Don't be so sure. You know what happens when you "assume" *grin*

> Didn't say it made sense from my perspective, although knowing just what 
> a hole DPI is in in terms of manpower, I can understand the rationale 
> behind it. :-) Dealing wth this means getting into a debate over the 
> state of computer training in this state, and I don't have the energy 
> for that right now. I'll just say that you wouldn't ask a C++ programmer 
> to write and administer a test for English competency and expect it to 
> be very good, would you?

Point taken. 

> The point is not the silliness of the tes, but that local school systems 
> have to work with mandates from further up the political chain, and 
> sometimes those mandates don't allow for a non-M$ or an Open Source 
> option.

Or an opinion not backed by the almighty dollar, but that's a different
debate entirely *grin*

> Yep. And constructive criticism is always appreciated (if not always 
> followed or followable).  :-)

Agreed. I tend to want to start at the administrative level and work my
way down. if the schools need paper, perhaps the county office can do
without a new computer themselves. Somehow, it never seems to work that
way. I recall vividly my years in the Wake County schools when we didn't
have enough paper to mimeograph tests on by mid-March, but there was a
new building under construction on Old Wake Forest Road for the School
Board offices. Even then, I thought there was something wrong with the
picture....

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