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Where I am (typical US place) no one at any school, elementary, middle, or high school (including the IT people), has the technical sophistication to responsibl
by jimhefferon 12y ago
Where I am (typical US place) no one at any school, elementary, middle, or high school (including the IT people), has the technical sophistication to responsibly administer local servers, or is remotely interested in gaining it.
- ronaldx 12y agoGenerally in the UK, IT teachers are hired primarily for the ability to act as a sysadmin and tech support (for the whole school) - and are frequently called away to fix the principal's printer, as a facetious example. The content of high school computer science courses is significantly influenced by this: the preference is for admin-heavy or Microsoft-heavy courses, which can be easily covered by non-specialist staff, and traditionally feature zero programming skills. This is changing, but in my opinion teaching in computer science field is still impeded by teachers needing to be sysadmins first.