Re: [seul-edu] Why home schooling questions?

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:42, Ed Lawson wrote:
> Why is this stuff being discussed on a mailing list concerning open
> source software for education?

Amongst other things, it will help to reveal the similarities and 
differences in the requirements for classroom software vs software that 
would be more appealing to home schoolers.

By "education" do you mean the State education system, private education 
systems (from superchools to one-room classes), home education, 
education under a thorn tree in the middle of the veldt, or all of the 
above? Admin or student software? Should distros try to be inclusive of 
both, or should we have an admin distro and a student distro? Or three 
(admin/staff/student)? Have we leaned towards tunnel-vision about which 
aspects of education we're targetting? And so on.

Cheers; Leon