Hi Rob, Lots of schools/teachers tell their kids to buy one of these school t-shirts for Gym. Not quite equivalent, but not hundreds of dollars, either. Some tell their kids to buy specific calculators, or one of two - or at least did when I was in University.
Many tell their kids to buy a specific textbook, which for a University class may cost more than the student version of MS Office. Rob -- Rob Echlin, B. Eng. 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON http://talksoftware.wordpress.com - http://picasaweb.google.com/coderoller ----- Original Message ----- > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > To: "swf...@gmail.com" <swf...@gmail.com> > Cc: Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:55:56 AM > Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Use of libreoffice to do high school work > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, swf...@gmail.com wrote: > >> No, the school does not provide MS Office. >> >> As others have noted, pdf is the way to go and most of the teachers that >> were insisting on .doc probably would not have noticed the difference. >> >> Just as a follow-up to the original posting. I wrote an email on the >> subject to the school's principal. He never replied. My son has > since >> graduated and does not want to bother chasing this up and I respect his >> wishes there. He missed the honour roll by a fraction of 1% -- less than >> the number of marks deducted due to the formatting issues. >> >> John >> >> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:23 PM, James <bjloc...@lockie.ca> wrote: >> >> > >> > > His teachers insist on assignments being handed in in .doc > format. >> > Does the school provide MS Office? >> > >> > > Further, at least one of them will not even listen to his > explanations of >> > > why formatting is messed up and won't look at the hard copy > he has for >> > them >> > > which has everything just fine. The end result is that he is > getting >> > > marks deducted for using libreoffice. > > i'm curious ... what would happen if a gym teacher told his students > that they were *required* to wear, say, reebok footwear to class, as > opposed to the footwear of their choice. isn't that sort of > equivalent to telling students they *must* invest in microsoft > software, or risk academic punishment? > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
