Since this is a HS, I think there are at least a couple of questions to
consider before making this decision.
1. Will students be expected to have laptops? Will they buy/lease them
or will the school provide them as part of tuition?
2. Will all classes need the same capabilities? For example, for the
arts and music, macs are pretty much necessary; in the sciences the
balance _tends_ to tip toward pcs, at least IMHO.
3. Have you considered a virtual network or thin client solution, so
students and staff may access all school applications anywhere? In that
case, platform becomes much less critical.
4. This is also not so much a platform decision, but have you decided to
have your own servers or to host the school's network operations externally?
In my experience, kids will tell you that platform doesn't matter very
much to them. In fact, a pretty healthy argument can be built today that
kids at the hs age should be exposed at least to the top three platforms
because they're likely to encounter them all and need to know how to be
facile with them.
Best wishes,
Jim Lerman
Kean University
David Liebmann wrote:
> I am the founding head-elect of Greenwich Village High School in NYC,
> which will open in September 2009. Of the many tasks before me, one is
> choosing between Mac and PC. I am sure there are strong opinions on
> either side, but I am curious to hear from those who might have insights
> into the best choice to support the majority of school operations,
> including the business functions of the school.
>
> David Liebmann
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