Re: Should schools declare a platform?

Joni J Rathbun (jrathbun@ednet1.osl.or.gov)
Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:47:48 EST

>I believe that we do our students a great disservice by cutting their
>teeth on equipment which still quite isolates itself from the rest of the
>industrial world. A disservice because, though the Apple can now use
>either the Windows/Dos operating system, the Apple is still foreign
>enough that one has to stop an think about *how* this or that works.
>
>I vote that educators stay mainstream and stop making excuses for their
>lack of understanding the industrial markets where most of their
>graduates end up.

Are we sure we know what our students will find in the future?
A conservative estimate here in Oregon is that the multimedia
industry here will reach about $700m by the year 2000. Some
experts triple that prediction. When surveyed, the industry
reported a pretty even split - 49% Mac, 49% PC, 2% other (Amiga)

The rate at which the multimedia industry is growing could
have a staggering impact on the workplace couldn't it?

--
Joni Rathbun, Media-Tech Specialist, Taft High School
Lincoln County School District - The Oregon Coast
jrathbun@ednet1.osl.or.gov
If you need a vacation, you should see the state I'm in.