Re: [seul-edu] Another threat

[James Oden <joden@eworld.wox.org>]

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> Now we have high school courses running training programs for office 
> software, apparently trying to compete with vocational schools.  And I 
> thought that situation was confined to the college level.  Whatever 
> happened to learning to read and think well enough to simply RTFM?  A 
> brave new world.
>
At least for NC the situation has been at the high school level for 10-5 years.
 
> A small disclaimer, I am not a professional educator so I may be a bit 
> disconnected from the current reality of public secondary education.
>
Neither am I, Just happened to be a Network Admin, for a school district 
for a couple of years.  Vocational departments may actually be doing 
the right thing (generally they
are not interested in putting out programers but good secretaries/office
workers (not to degrade secretaries or office workers) and unfortunately 
the landscape of that job market is MS Office.  It becomes very disconcerting
though in that a tension exists between the vocational department, and the
NC school systems Tech Services, as the vocational department personal
generally assume what is good for vocation is good for all (and in the 
case of NC the vocational department has a sizable budget).  They see
things like Linux and Star Office as impractical as most businesses don't
use them visably.

...james
> - cameron
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> - cameron miller
> - UNIX Systems Administrator
> - cdmiller@adams.edu
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