[GRLUG] Linux @ school.

[Michael Greene]

I agree that schools should be paying less on these unnecessary
purchases, but teachers should be making more money if anything.  It
horrifies me that you think we should be paying less to the
teachers--why do you think we don't have a good supply of good
teachers?  Also, we aren't paying all our teachers $50,000... only the
ones who have been kept on for several years and have gone up the
payscale.  http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layoutscripts/swzl_compresult.asp?narrowcode=ED01&jobcode=ED03000010&metrocode=65&metro=Grand%20Rapids&state=Michigan&geo=Grand%20Rapids,%20Michigan&jobtitle=Teacher%20Elementary%20School&narrowdesc=Education
That doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me.

Michael

On 9/27/06, Benjamin Eavey <ben at eavey.com> wrote:
> > One of the issues with computer technology in schools is money.  Why are
> > schools PAYING for Windows when Linux is free?  Why are schools PAYING
> > for MS Office when OpenOffice is free?
> >
> > These are the type of questions that parents need to bring up to the
> > schools when the schools say "we don't have the money for xxxxx."  Part
> > of the problem with the schools is that they do not spend their funds
> > wisely.
>
> On this, I agree 100%.  It's just as easy to teach a kid word processing
> concepts with OpenOffice, for instance, as it is with Word.  Basic stuff
> like that is a no-brainer.  Windows and Office, especially at the
> elementary level, make no sense at all.
>