Toronto high school expels Linux lab

Marc Lijour marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Sat Jul 8 04:29:39 UTC 2006


On July 7, 2006 09:58 am, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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?
>
> The article in my opinion is an accurate and fair explanation of the
> situation.
>
> Actually, I seem to recall that there were a few people on this list who
> have been working with or in the Toronto District School Board. If any
> of you could contact me off-list, it would be a great help. We have an
> opportunity to use this issue to influence the TDSB in a positive way,
> and any "insider" help we could get would be useful.

I just got appointed at the Ministry of Education to work on the Technology 
curriculum and some IT projects. I would be more than happy to discuss what 
positive advantages Linux can bring to our education system, and in first 
instance to our kids.

Regards,

Marc Lijour
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