Hmm... this is cross-posted to many lists. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:14, Abhishek Mishra <ideam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm sure not many of the profs/teachers at my > college would put efforts to try out Python.
Here is my experience after a few interactions : The school teachers (i had met last year) were interested but the management does not trust volunteers. Besides, each school has its own idea of how to promote computer education in schools. Most of them force students to buy text-books all teaching proprietary software :( Also the word "computer education" preys on the parents desire --it is a money-spinner in the name of 'making the student computer literate' -- parents are charged extra money per month as part of "computer education", lab fees, etc... Students in grade1, grade2 were being taught computers -- their notebooks had nice colored pictures of a monitor, printer, laptop, with the teacher's red-ink ticked mark and "good" sign for the color not going out of the lines. I kid you not. One school principal lamented about Indians not writing their own OS/compilers, etc.... when I politely suggested that he would set a trend if he removed the pirated copies of a proprietary OS and installed the Ubuntu CD that I gave him. All this was about a year ago in Bangalore at the CBSE schools and one government aided school. I doubt if things have drastically changed for the better since. IIRC, recently there was another effort to train the government teachers : http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/indichix/2009-July/001674.html -- vid http://vid.svaksha.com || _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
