On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:14 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the high price of Macs here many parents just buy cheap PC's with > Windows bundled Well, whatever the bar chart of different HW/OS sightings may be in Israel, this IMHO utterly fails as an argument that a particular family *must* buy an Windows computer - inexpensive as it may be - if it does not have one, just to be able to view/print school assignments. I wonder if it is even legal on the part of a school to demand this. and get the student/home version of office (Word and Execel but no Outlook > (scheduling/email) and Access (database)) which can be found on sale for as > low as 300 NIS for a three computer license. > Again, I may be naive but it seems to me that there is something basically wrong with the idea that public school education should depend on the parents' ability to "find" second-hand SW of uncertain provenance on a garage sale or wherever. > Last year (2010 school year) a student organization was offering a netbook > with Windows XP and Office included for 1200 NIS. This year, there were > still some being sold for as little as 800 NIS at places like Machsani > Chasmal. This is a lot of money, and again, from the sound of it this is not what is normally called "generally available". Now, I would assume that most on the parents in this discussion are qualified professionals with reasonably well paying jobs, and I would not be surprised if most had multiple computers at home, etc. Let's face it, it's not a representative sample of the general population. IMHO, "it's not that expensive" just doesn't cut it. No, the teachers know how to email. They would have to hire a webmaster to > post them and coordinate the postings. > Good point. I assumed a school that requires pupils to have computers would have IT staff and a website. It ain't necessarily so (to quote the Gershwins). I am ignorant of today's school procedures - whatever happened to "your homework is exercises 15.1 through 15.8 in your manual"? Or "write down your homework" at the end of the class? Or handouts? Why emailing is necessary? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | o...@goldshmidt.org
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