From the "siteseeing" department.By sheer coincidence, I found today that the web site for the secondary school that two of my daughters go to is running Drupal.Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School's site has that tiny Druplicon for a favicon that gave away what was used to build it. The school publishes results on their web site and send the parent an email notification. Each student has a code name for privacy reasons, so the exact student cannot be identified publically. This seems to be an integration with Markbook. It was when I was checking the marks that I noticed that Druplicon, and got intrigued.That the school is using open source is good news, although the Waterloo Region District School Board itself seems to be Microsoft centric in its web site as well as a curriculum. Students are taught Microsoft Office, and not open source alternatives. Even when teaching a language, an obscure non-free language was used (Turing, running only on Windows, and costs per-copy license fees). I tried raising my concerns to the teacher, who sympathized, but said that the board decides what gets taught. Upon talking to the board and recommending an open, free multiplatform language (Python or Java for example). All they said was that they will look into it, and no outcome so far.
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