[Year 12 IT Apps] OT: Computer rollover

[Cameron Bell]

Most schools do actually levy charges for other "addons", particularly 
for practical / elective subjects, so user-pays isn't limited to 
Internet access.
Many of us do now view net access as an essential and indispensable part 
of available educational resources, however this isn't always 
appreciated by those who haven't taught in the net age and now 
administer. They often only see it as a cost.
I / we decided not to charge students for it when it became obvious that 
charging for access was hampering the delivery of the curriculum.
Cameron


Russell Edwards wrote:
>
> On 08/08/2007, at 5:51 PM, Brendyn Hancock wrote:
>> My experience has been that recovering $$$ from student internet users
>> has only ever been token. Its more that you are teaching them
>> responsible use of costly resources than it is a significant income.
>
> I can see the reasoning behind the above... but on the other hand I 
> don't see why schools are so fussed about their internet bills, nor 
> why they advocate a user-pays system for the internet but nothing 
> else. The internet is more useful than the library in most subjects 
> other than, perhaps, English. How much does the library cost to run 
> per year? And, how much does IT support cost per year? People seem to 
> stress out about internet bills < $10k/year. I would have thought in 
> consideration of the amount spent on library and IT staff, the 
> Internet would be worth having even at $100k/year. (And no, the 
> Education Channel doesn't count as "the Internet" in my view.) When 
> you consider that the staffing costs overall for a school of 1000 
> pupils must be in the millions of dollars per year, 10k is peanuts!!
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Russell
> Whittlesea SC
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