December 12, 2008 9:33 AM PST
Teacher Confiscates Linux CDs, says "No Software Is Free"
Who needs Microsoft FUD when brainwashed teachers are doing free marketing?
A teacher in Texas recently confiscated Linux OS discs that a kid was passing out in class. She also sent a nastygram to HeliOS, the nonprofit that built and donated the Linux-loaded computer.
This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them..."
And a great response from the HeliOS team:
The most disturbing part of this resides in the fact that the AISD purchases millions of dollars of Microsoft Software in a year's time when that money could be better spent on educating our children. A dedicated School Teacher would recognize that fact and lobby for the change to Free Open Source Software and let the money formally spent on MS bindware be used on our kids.
Via Consumerist
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1) the teacher in the story is a flaming, incompetent idiot who likely got her position because she was the only one in the faculty who was able to make a spreadsheet without breaking something along the way, qualifying her as an "expert". This is however, likely to be someone who would be fired for gross incompetence on her first day of any real IT position.
2) unfortunately, her type is all too common among those who teach.
3) seniority will protect her from ever having to learn any different.
4) (the saddest part) she allegedly teaches "technology".
Little wonder we have as result a whole generation of young adults who toe the corporate loyalty line - without prodding, without question, and without even the slightest rational thought.
(...and do you still wonder why the NEA fights tooth and nail against even the slightest hint of requiring teachers to actually understand and/or pass testing and qualifications for the subjects they teach? Your answer is right there, and its name is Karen.)
/P
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/character-assasinations-aint-us.html
Props to the both of them; please disregard my previous posting on the matter.
- by dcdugger December 13, 2008 6:32 PM PST
- If indeed this is true, I am very afraid for my children. I had stupid teachers, but wow, this takes the cake. When I was 10, the teachers in Davidson County TN had to take a new certification test, 70% failed, and it was only on a 6th grade level!
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(8 Comments)If you have kids, be afraid for them! I'm looking more and more into home schooling.