You can tell this person is out of touch and doesn’t actually have any experience of the systems they’re complaining about, because they think people are still using IE and Word over Chrome and Google Docs.
A lot of school IT staff I've met in the UK are not at the cutting edge. Many of them are older, have an out of date skill set, and don't get regular training - there's just not the budget for it, and many schools would baulk at paying market rates for talented, up to date support staff / management.
This was also a school who won an award for it's cyber security. More than once I found full student rosters with username/password printed out sitting on the teacher's desk.
I suppose this is a different rant than school's should use FOSS. I don't think schools should impose a digital footprint on their very young as students.
I have no children and no longer work in education.
>discriminates against poorer families
I agree just funny.
I'd argue PDF is equally problematic as it is often designed for A4 paper format, and this not easily readable on mobile devices, which poorer families are more likely to have as main computing device.
Well exactly - if you want to tackle this ‘problem’ then first you have to understand why LibreOffice isn’t a replacement (because you need to replace Google Docs not Word.)