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I think this is the key – recommendations from any given source will have that sources bias. “IT people” with a teaching background may give very different advice to those with a commercial-it background and this is likely different again to that from those with predominantly IT-management experience. They’re all both right and wrong and recommendations always have to be taken in the context of what the school is actually doing/trying to achieve.
A hybrid model tends to be the most effective. Thin Clients have advantages, but are very limiting for some uses. Accordingly a purely Thin Client system is likely to be unworkable in a High School. Except where it works beautifully (perhaps the media-heavy students have their own BYOD laptops that they use instead of school desktops).
So long as no one is going to bind you to recommendations (either the vendor or the board) audits are almost always good ways to start discussions…
Cheers, Julian
Julian Davison
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Peer reviews can be handy but be cautious with some bias that may follow.
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