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School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007

Posted by kdawson on from the no-more-parents'-dirty-looks dept.

WS Nick writes "Batavia school district in Illinois is recommending that parents of high school students upgrade their home computers to Microsoft Office 2007. Why not use one of the free alternatives and relieve parents of some of the financial burden they face to buy all the stuff for their children the school requires?" A comment from a reader points out how easy it is to interoperate with Office 2007 from earlier versions.

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  1. Re:Why not? by king-manic · · Score: 1, Troll

    School is most importantly about learning to learn.

    Not really, your retention level is low. They don't really teach critical thinking until college/university. Before then it's rote memorization unless you were fortunate to find a "good" teacher. Grade school, middle school, and high school is much more about keeping your kids busy while you worked and giving the kids a good early dose of propaganda and start them on a career path. They may learn stuff too but chances are it wasn't taught in a way they'd really retain much.

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