<br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/14/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Cole</b> <<a href="mailto:kjcole@ubuntu.com">kjcole@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span></div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">My "snotty" side was tempted to write back to Mr. Dodge with a comment<br>like "The fact/theory/rumor that DC kids are either less educated or<br> less intelligent than students in developing countries isn't a<br>software problem." But I resisted. ;-)</blockquote> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Ha! Yeah...unfortunately, a real bias that persists even in those who serve DC public schoolkids.</div> <div>Yeah, I agree about teens maybe not <em>en masse</em> being an easy nut to crack -- not just because of their need to conform, but also because of their lack (again, generalizing) of the need to consider things like price and entrenchment in propriety software as a result of business situations.</div> <div> </div> <div>I'm totally going to try to be an audience plant.<br> </div>