@cassey@ottawa.place this is how civilization ends, not with a bang, but with a prompt. what scares me most here is my flashbacks to when the NRC endorsed my bid to channel schoolboard efforts and funds into opensource tools, but the board preempted my submission by hiring a Microsoft partner to 'evaluate' the candidates. Guess who got the post. The dominant excuse is "to prepare students for the 'real world' work environment" although what they taught of M$ warez in 1996 no longer exist. Today, now, here in our nation's capital, the same excuse applied to fostering mass ignorance while root-toot-tooting the fascists surveillance devices because, well, that's the future we collectively hope for our kids, Amazon Prime for EVERYONE!