Toronto high school expels Linux lab

[Paul King]

As a teacher, and taking this from the point of view of 
teacher/administration politics, this was a deliberate slap in the 
face to the teacher. This was obviously intentionally political.

Reading between the lines, Montgomery was too stubborn to 
compromise his lab in ways that would boost enrollment. Prinicipal 
gets tired on wasting school salary on a teacher that teaches an 
undersized classroom, so MacKinnon switches all the computers to 
Gatesware when he's not looking. 

Back-stabbing, ugly school politics in its classic, paternalistic 
form.

Paul King

On 7 Jul 2006 at 9:22, Meng Cheah wrote:

> A Toronto high school teacher who had been running a Linux lab for five 
> years was forced to close it down last week by the school´s 
> administration following the implementation of a Microsoft-based, school 
> board-wide computing initiative.
> 
> Article here, 
> http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=39987&cid=3
> 
> Does anyone know more about this?
> 
> Meng Cheah
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