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My kids school have just installed Frog Parent Portal and are handing out pre-generated logins/passwords, but only one per child. Is this standard Frog procedure?

I think it is pretty obvious which side of the fence I'm on but I'm not trying to dictate policy. While some people might see it as a 'lazy' option, I see it as highly productive and in a commercial environment that is important. And by teaching students to do things in a different way, they are likely to follow that path into the future. If I am correct about the productivity side of it, then they are 'taught' to be less productive than some of their contemporaries. On average, that has to affect their life chances somewhat. I don't know how I'd manage without right-click. Thanks for replying anyhow.

Hi I'm an ICT link governor (and a Technology Director in RL) and our Network Manager has told me that he has disabled right-click in the user profile on all the student PC accounts. I understand his reasoning ("What they can't access they can't fiddle with!", but is this common practice in schools or is he a little OTT? As an employer I want my employees to understand and use right-click because it is one of the most productive UI enhancements ever, IMHO. So I believe students should learn to use it at school. Who is right? Am I living in a fantasy world in expecting students to behave properly when given access to a PC? Ta

Some DfES FAQ's here

DfES now, I believe. Have any of their techie's ever appeared over here?

OK guys, so I'm not totally wide of the mark, which is a relief. My bigger problem is that you then have technologically literate lay-governors trying to explain to "professionals" - aka the teaching staff - that they should be listening less to the RM salesman and the LA SIMS support team and more to their own technicians, network managers and DBA's. But with ICT, the professionals don't seem to want to do that. How can eduGeeks and techie Governors work together to improve ICT provision in general?

Hi I'm a governor at 2 schools and an IT Director of a publishing company. As a governor I deal mainly with the SMT, rarely with the eduGeeks. I find that the level of technological understanding amongst the SMT is often quite low, but they do play the eduTech card quite a lot. It seems that - according to them - the key to understanding technology in schools is understanding the need to facilitate strange beasts like SIMS.net, PLASC and FFT data analysis. To me these are just "different" MIS systems. Every industry has their own. My take is that implementing ICT systems in schools is no different to implementing them in other businesses. Just give the eduGeeks the specs, the money and the time and tell you to get on with it. Am I being over simplistic? Unrealistic? Or just a prat? All comments gratefully received.