[SLL] What is taught to some Austin, Texas students

Chuck Wolber chuckw at quantumlinux.com
Thu Dec 11 10:24:09 PST 2008


On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jerry Horvath wrote:

>  "In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a 
> local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of 
> her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of 
> an operating system in 
> class<http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ignorant-teacher-linux-in-education.html>. 
> "


This actually does not surprise me. Texas isn't exactly the bastion of 
reality based thinking:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071208-more-shots-fired-in-the-war-on-science.html
http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/10/zombie-jamboree.html


..Chuck..


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