Why do schools hire retards.

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Find the person who is head of the area for IT/Computing, and forward them YOUR RECCOMENDATION & SOUND REASONS, along with THEIR RECCOMENDATIONS(schools thoughts)

Hopefully the person you contact is actually a decent "intellectual", and agrees with you.

As such given your approach to the situation, they may reccomend you further down the line for other school contracts..

The above you have stated only goes to prove that there is some truth to the saying "... those who cant, teach"
 
randal24 said:
Crikey.

When I were at school we used 486 SX25s running 3.11 with 4mb of RAM. Network boot. Some of them had hard disks, they played Doom/Quake after school. :) Ah good times.
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When I were a lad we had to use BBC Model B computers! Only in later year of high school did we "upgrade" to Mac SEs. (many a happy time playing Stunt Copter!)
 
In both the education environments I've worked in Linux would be a non starter. In most schools departments are permitted to choose there own software without input from the ICT support department. Explaining to teachers that they could only choose from a limited number of titles would be a non starter. You have to bare in mind that ICT is used in the teaching of all subjects.

Some schools do use Thin Client, however this isn't ideal because it's not suitable for multimedia of graphic intensive work.

As for the decision to have quad core PCs, that sounds to me like someone in management (who doesn't know what they're doing) trying to make there mark.
 
whatever you do in your implementation, make sure its friggin secure. Some stupid schools i've been to have the same admin password for everything, so if one pupil boots up a copy of linux hax cd and find it out, they've effectively know the admin pass for the entire network.
thin clients are great for this as they can't really be hacked without an admin knowing about it, but for graphics and stuff like that i guess there no option but to go for a pc terminal, but make sure that pc terminals can't compromise the entire network, maybe have them on a vlan on a different gateway.
and change admin passes weekly.
 
It was possibly a little navie to offer a school Linux. There is no great need for it and the training costs would be huge. No school I know would drill that deep in to the O/S to need linux.
 
Present your case again to the IT leader, stating the benefits of what you've suggested and also ask her why she thinks she needs what she has requested. Then as someone has suggested try and find a middle ground.
 
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