<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings,<br><br></div><div>I have a situation where my daughter is attending a leading independent government school and because she is using her own UNIX (ok, it's a Mac) PC instead of leasing one through the school, the school won't give her a logon for the shared drives. These drives are used to pick up and drop off school work.<br>
<br></div><div>The school's original position was "the Department policy prevents . .".<br><br>I contacted the Department of Education and received:<br><br>"<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The
development and implementation of SOE version 4.2 in schools has
enabled local decisions to be made regarding which of these online
services are made available
to staff and students. This strategy directly supports the philosophy
of Independent Public Schools and ensures that Western Australian public
schools can be individual, distinctive and responsive to their local
communities while still benefiting from being
part of a system.</span>"<br><br></div>I wonder if anyone is working in a position where they might cast light on why school IT managers are so parochial in the 21st century? What is it they fear?<br><br>Thanks<br>
<br>Kevin.<br></div>