[geeks] Thoughts on IT work in public schools?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 04/16/14 14:06, hike wrote:
> IT is a commodity at public schools.
> IT does not pay well at public schools.
> IT is poorly equipped at public schools.  (Yes, less than business.)

Which is to say, the odds are you'll be working with antique hardware
with little or no maintenance budget, running obsolete software with no
support, expected to pull any necessary license fees out of your ass,
and then blamed when anything doesn't work or isn't compatible with the
latest shiny MOOC.  Oh, and you'll be responsible for making sure that
no student can use it to access anything any member of the faculty,
school board or PTA thinks students shouldn't be able to access, even if
they didn't know in advance that they don't think students should have
access to it and haven't ever told you to block it.  Or anything that
might be, you know, offensive or insensitive.  To someone.  Somewhere.
Anywhere.  Potentially.  Perhaps.


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  Phil Stracchino
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