[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:25:18PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> If they were teaching word processing and spreadsheets, rather than
> Word and Excel, I'd be a lot less worried.

I don't like it but,  in the U.S., Word is word processing and
Excel is spreadsheets. They are training people to get jobs as gammas
(office workers) and betas (administrators). That's the tools they would
use and what the people that hire them want.

For them, learning OpenOffice INSTEAD of Word and Excel is a "carrer
limiting move".

Geoff.

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