[lug] BVSD Windows vs Mac craziness

[Gary Hodges]

Rob Nagler wrote:
> BVSD (Boulder Valley School District) has made a decision to use the
> money from 3A to switch the entire district over to a 90%
> Windows-based environment in less than four years.  The district is
> currently about 80% Mac.

I sat in a couple St Vrain district (Longmont area) meetings before the 
election last year where the (now failed) bond issue was discussed. 
Actually, it may have been an additional tax, but whatever it was, it 
was looking for more money for St Vrain.  BVSD was consistently used as 
an example of a district where these things passed all the time.  I 
asked how much smarter BVSD children were than ST Vrain Children.  They 
didn't know.  Can school districts have too much money?  At some point 
there has to be diminishing returns on the dollar.  Is 3A a case of 
money that wasn't needed now looking for a justification to be spent? 
Simply updating all the Macs may not have been a good enough justification.

Gary