Recently, I had a bit of a run-in with my daughter’s high school. She was undergoing an eSchool class over the summer called “Computer Applications,” and it turns out the class only actually “covered” Office Suites, namely Microsoft Office. Now in our household we do not own a copy of Microsoft Office. Instead, we use OpenOffice and have never had an issue - that is, until now.
Educational institutions are supposed to be a pillar of learning and intelligent decisions. But it seems, as far as software is concerned, our educational system is consistently making some fairly unintelligent choices.