Why aren’t schools adopting open source?

“Before my daughter started in on her eSchool I set up
OpenOffice to save in all Microsoft Office defaults. I knew this
way she wouldn’t have any problem submitting her work. My
presumption was correct…at first. But there was a wrench
inadvertently thrown in the works. This wrench came when my
daughter was discovered stretching the truth about her assignments.
She said she had completed them but they weren’t accepted. She said
she HAD to have Microsoft Office. Knowing what the assignments
where I decided to call the instructor of the class. It turns out
there were a number of interesting issues going on. First and
foremost the instructor was only able to teach Microsoft Office
(because 1. that is what she had and 2. that is what she knew).
This, of course, lead me to a question that I had to share.

“Why are schools in the states not adopting open source
software? It’s happening all around the globe. Schools,
universities, businesses, corporations, governments are all
adopting open source software. So why can’t the US?”

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