Open Source In Public K-12 Schools?

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 27, 2009 @04:35AM from the starting-'em-early dept.

MissMachine writes "I'm a computer science major who has been recently getting involved in local grassroots politics in my county and state. I've been discussing the idea with some of my state legislatures of submitting a couple of resolutions, opening up to the idea of switching to open source software in our state's K-12 schools. I'm looking for more information/literature about this topic, open source solutions in public K-12 education, pros and cons, studies that prove or disprove many of the assumptions of open source and linux in public schools. Any help in this field?"

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Re:The Support and Training Issue by supernova_hq · 2009-02-27 04:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

From what I've seen lately, if you put edubuntu on a bunch of machines, the kids will figure out how to use them before the teacher finds the power switch.
Never use the ignorance and laziness of an adult as an excuse to stifle the education and development of a child!
Re:Forget it by Ragzouken · 2009-02-27 05:26 · Score: 5, Insightful

If you don't read the whole message then you have no right to be offended by it.