• TCB13@lemmy.world
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    “There’s a school in Wisconsin that is so underfunded that they only have very old computers and the person running it barely knows hat’s a computer and thus won’t ever create a budget or approve new systems. Furthermore this school is so irrelevant they aren’t even able to qualify for free software from Microsoft. A bored teacher saved the day and made the old computers somewhat useful by installing Linux on his spare time. Of course all of this doesn’t come for free, the current generation of students never used a computer at home, just mobile devices, and are being robbed of learning a valuable and required skill for any future job - basic Windows and Office usage.”

    There, article fixed for you.

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      Why put this much effort in trying to getting banned? Is making up a story based on the headline a creative writing exercise for you?

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          What about this situation where kids don’t have enough knowledge to give informed consent to being spied on and profiled for the rest of their adult lives?

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      Sure basic windows and office usage is sure a required skill.

      You don’t even use windows that much in any future job. You use the software solutions you are given as a wage slave. And most of them run in a browser.

      Also cool that this school is unimportant for Microsoft. But for the students, teachers and parents its certainly ain’t.

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        You don’t even use windows that much in any future job. You use the software solutions you are given as a wage slave

        So you’re assuming there aren’t “wage slaves” doing data entry on MS Office and also that 0% of those students won’t ever be managers or hold any other more high level job that does require those tools. So you must be against teaching financial literacy at school as well because “they won’t ever invest anything”. Great job, let’s keep the peasants illiterate in everything they actually need to climb the ladder.

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          Because they can’t learn to put words and numbers in excel. How skillful do you think they’re gonna get from one semester in excel?

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            One semester in Excel you have time to learn how to use it for almost everything.

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          You can learn Windows pretty quickly. Also this is much better than giving students locked down Chromebooks

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            Also this is much better than giving students locked down Chromebooks

            Oh yes, but still can pose a problem. Imagine one of those students tried to apply for a backoffice job at a bank, they’ll most likely test the person’s Office skills and the student may not be able to compete the assessment and have an inferior grade to another one who always had MS Office at his school.