[Wolves] Is it me Sir?

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:39 +0000, dick_turpin wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Despite my daughters schools efforts to ensure they get a progressive
> education, which in laymen's terms means they leave as crack heads with
> the numeracy skills of a mollusc and the reading ability of a baboon
> Hannah and Monique have done pretty well so far.
> 
> The IT lessons  have always been a source of amusement to myself over
> the years  I remember the time the girls wanted to run a Live Fedora
> disc "Its against school policy to use pirated software, Linux, what's
> that then?" or last year when the so called teacher said "OK everyone I
> have something new for you which the school is going to provide you with
> free of charge its an office package called Open Office"
> 
> "Its OK sir we don't need that we've had that at home for like 7 odd years"
> 
> The latest one is sort of the icing on the cake, four years ago every
> parent had a letter telling them their offspring needed a USB pen drive
> to use for school and home work (Does every child have a computer at
> home?) of course the school was selling drives at a slight mark-up which
> is fine in my book.
> 
> So last week everyone had to hand over their USB's for testing! (Not
> sure if that's strictly legal but anyway) "Our systems are infected and
> we want to find out who infected us". After testing the drives a friend
> of Moniques appears to have had a Trojan so of course the poor girl is
> being blamed for everything including the black death. The use of USB
> drives has now been banned which begs some questions;
> 
> 1. Surely they have some AV protection? (After all what did they test
> the drives with?)
> 2. What happens now with all this school/home work?
> 3. Are they going to reimburse everyone who purchased a school one?
> 
> No wonder the council is itching to sell it to a developer for a quick
> Zillion Dollar note.
> 
Pure comedy.

Of course the real issue is why they don't have the av software setup to
auto scan newly mounted drives, as oh so many of them do now-a-days :)
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