To my daughter's high school programming teacher

Re:To my daughter's high school programming teacher by FrankenPC on Monday September 09, 2013 @10:32PM (#6357761)

Passive aggressive preaching. If she REALLY wants to change things, offer to assist the computer department with digging up funding for a C based curriculum. It costs a lot of money for public schools to shift curriculum's.

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Re:To my daughter's high school programming teacher by Bar_Code on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @09:10AM (#6359754)

At my daughter's school I offered to run a computer club, speak in class, redo their website, all for free. I said I would pay for all teaching materials. The head of technology rejected all offers. His response, "We use technology to teach, not teach technology". "A computer club would only teach kids to hack". "Besides, Cisco sponsored one years ago to teach about routers and it was poorly attended". I wish it was just a matter of funding.

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Re:To my daughter's high school programming teacher by icecreampain on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @03:05AM (#6358603)

Offering to assist with digging up funding is a lot harder than writing a blog post on your tech website.

Besides, the hits taste sooo good.

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