[oclug] teachers (part 2)

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 03/03/02 David F. Skoll did speaketh:

> I think teachers have been scapegoated and are getting fed up, which
> is why they resist competency testing.  I think it's absurd that
> computer programmers get paid more than teachers, for example.  And
> teachers are constrained by local and provincial politics.  I'm sure
> most decent teachers think it's ridiculous to introduce computers into
> elementary schools, for example, but the high-tech agenda being pushed
> by corporations and politicians cows them into silence.  And the money
> spent on computers is wasted; it could be much better spent on other
> things like school libraries, playgrounds and teacher salaries.

    I still find it amazing that the Canadian government repeatedly says how
important it is that Canada improves its standards of education, and has
sufficient high-tech workers, and yet we invest so little overall in educating
the next generation. We tried to help a local school set up a Linux lab a
while ago and the school board axed it, saying that it had to be winblows or
nothing. Quite sad. 

    Mike

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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at mcss.mcmaster.ca>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08
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