On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, g wrote: > > to all who have replied. > > On 01/13/2014 11:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > <> > > just what makes you think that with all the students that will be > using the laptops, that there will not be one or two, or more, > that have experience with linux. > > all the 'this and that' to protect the laptops would be great and > work if none know linux. > > children will be children and one of the things that they will do > is try to see what they can get into and/or away with. > > therefore, i would suggest that students be told that if any > laptop is muck up by a student or students, then said students > will be failed for the entire course year. it may also be good > to see if any additional punishment of being expelled for a > length of time so that student will have to repeat grade. > > they are in respect damaging school property and they should be > dealt with accordingly. > > many may say that i suggestion a bit of a harsh punishment, maybe > so, but it would most definitely be a deterrent. except that it's not a college course, it's a *professional* linux admin course as i make a living teaching linux and kernel programming and device drivers and stuff like that to corporations, so threatening to fail paying customers is probably a bad idea. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org