School May Turn Down $43K In Free Macs

Longfeather writes "Tukwila, Washington's cash-strapped Foster High School may have to turn down US$43,000 worth of free Macs because of a PC-only IT policy already in place. Read here(1) and here(2)." Surely some school would be willing to bend (or rethink) policy rather than turn away new computers.

Comments

Schools are often very very stupid.

[pmz]

I wonder if that school also has a "zero tolerance" policy where bright kids get expelled for having prescription cough syrup in their locker.

$43,000 worth of macs!

[Elwood P Dowd]

Wow! That's like, what, four whole new Macintosh computers!

(Proud owner of an iBook. Just sayin'.)

Re:FOX News (offtopic)

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, that apparently God is in the entertainment business and votes Republican.

Re:Another deal with the Devil goes bad

[pmz]

You try telling a clueless administrator what Linux is. They would be like, "Loonics? Is that some type of pirate stuff?" :)

1) Tell them it is the latest-n-greatest in educational software for computers. Tell them that hundreds of universities use it. Tell them how cost-effective it is. (no lying needed!)

2) Don't tell them at all. (riskier, but getting the students hooked first might force the administration to play along)

Re:Why not trade?

[s20451]

Here's what they totally should have done:

1. Accept donated computers.
2. Trade them / sell them / get rid of them for profit.
3. Use the profit to buy PCs.
4. Come up with some story about how the Macs were a disaster for their IT department, completely unusable, etc., and sell it to Microsoft for some extra cash.

Somebody oughta give me an MBA.