On Wednesday 29 January 2003 18:28, C Falconer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:21, Gareth Williams wrote: > > ...My old school - mind you, I think all schools are probably pretty > > similar (ie. poor) in this area (tech/computers). Mainly because of staff > > problems I'd suspect, most 'IT' staff are not specilist, but rather they > > teach something else (maths, for example), and are roped in to teach IT > > courses to tech savvy kids, a lot of whom know more than the teacher does > > about the subject. > > CLUG members excluded? (ahem)
My apologies to anyone who teaches and actually knows about the material they are teaching (as opposed to reciting something from a text book). I know there are a lot of capable people in the CLUG, my point is that I would've killed to have one of them as my high school comp studies teacher - or in any other IT position for that matter. Just somebody with a clue, who encourages kids to program instead of stifling it because they are paranoid about "hacking". Cheers, Gareth
