Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

>
> Eh, reading comprehension failure on my part again: the OP's problem  
> is not with home assignments but with school-wide distribution such  
> as weekly schedule. This renders the Word requirement - or even a  
> computer requirement - even less reasonable, IMHO. Making 5% - or 1%  
> - of families to buy a computer and/or specialized SW just to view a  
> schedule is totally unacceptable on financial grounds only.


In our case, the schools provide printed versions of the schedule.  
They also email it to make sure the parents get it, instead of it  
sitting forever in the student's book bag and then thrown on.

My wife uses Outlook (the commercial version, not the bundled email  
program) for scheduling and she can highlight and click items to put  
them into her schedule.

It's really a courtesy for the parents, not a requirement.

I do a lot of email back and forth with my youngest son's teacher  
because she uses terms like "next week", or "soon", etc, and I want  
exact dates.

Geoff.

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