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That is really a horrible policy. What were they thinking?
by brokenmachine 7y ago
That is really a horrible policy. What were they thinking?
- coldtea 7y agoThe kids not familiar with it would mess it up?
- justinator 7y agoI mean good? I learned a lot by messing up stuff. School is a great place to make plenty of mistakes.
- dbuder 7y agoBut they are expensive and the teachers didn't know how to fix them. At my school it was a similar setup, getting access to the computer lab was guarded like the crown jewels and the one guy who could program never said a word to me. I got a 486 the year after and at that point couldn't care less about the old boxes we had to school. Pity they didn't even brush on programming, it was all word processing making and bad computer art (easy to mark, the winner got to print theirs out in colour!).
- sjamaan 7y agoEspecially on those machines: You could simply press the reset button and it would go back to a pristine state. There was no hard drive or other state that persisted across reboots. The worst you could possibly do was destroy a program stored on disk or a cassette.
- willtim 7y agoAt my UK state school in the 80s, they had a similar policy for musical instruments. They only gave music lessons to those that already were having private lessons (!)
- thedaemon 7y agoUK is a very class based society. You must stick to your class.