[gorickey]

I remember hearing about the Schaumburg, IL School District 54 going from an all Wintel environment to an all Macintosh/iBook deployment a few months back...it made national Mac news because of the size and magnitude of the "switch" this district took on. Does anybody know how things have gone with that since it's been announced?

Thanks.

[CrazedVW]

If its anything like what happened in Henrico County, Virginia two years ago, it'll go something like this:
The schools will be overloaded because they didn't install enough bandwidth to carry that many students using the network at once.
The teachers will gripe about how the students are just playing games and IMing on them rather then doing school work.
The parents will gripe about how little Johnny is accessing porn.
Eventually, they'll collect them and strip the machine to the point where the students can install nothing, basically having read-only access to stuff. They'll have industrial strength filters keeping out even useful stuff from the internet making that someone useless as well. Then you'll have students breaking them so that on a given day, several students out of a class won't have them to do their work on.
And of course, the county administration will proclaim, "This is the best thing ever! The kids are learning so much!"
Hmm, come to think of it, given that I'm an employee of the county (as a substitute teacher) I'm probably not supposed to be griping about it but oh well.

-Jeff

Originally posted by gorickey:
I remember hearing about the Schaumburg, IL School District 54 going from an all Wintel environment to an all Macintosh/iBook deployment a few months back...it made national Mac news because of the size and magnitude of the "switch" this district took on. Does anybody know how things have gone with that since it's been announced?

Thanks.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by CrazedVW:
If its anything like what happened in Henrico County, Virginia two years ago, it'll go something like this:
The schools will be overloaded because they didn't install enough bandwidth to carry that many students using the network at once.
The teachers will gripe about how the students are just playing games and IMing on them rather then doing school work.
The parents will gripe about how little Johnny is accessing porn.
Eventually, they'll collect them and strip the machine to the point where the students can install nothing, basically having read-only access to stuff. They'll have industrial strength filters keeping out even useful stuff from the internet making that someone useless as well. Then you'll have students breaking them so that on a given day, several students out of a class won't have them to do their work on.
And of course, the county administration will proclaim, "This is the best thing ever! The kids are learning so much!"
Hmm, come to think of it, given that I'm an employee of the county (as a substitute teacher) I'm probably not supposed to be griping about it but oh well.

-Jeff

Well, since that was 2 years ago now...and with the whole state of Maine doing what they are doing, I am sure both Apple and S'burg have learened from the other deployments and can use that towards their advantage for sure.

[gorickey]

I just read the updated article on this the other day...looks as if the kidlets are finally getting their new iBooks...amazing stuff!