In my experience, a lot of school ICT departments don't seem to "trust" open source software — in much the same way that end users who don't have experience in anything but Microsoft Office and Photoshop don't trust open source software. It's a strange situation, as generally speaking, the school's ICT provision (as in computers, equipment and software, not teaching) is handled by trained ICT professionals — the sort of people that you'd expect to know about low-cost, open source solutions.

It doesn't help that a lot of school networks are locked down incredibly tight, making it difficult to install new software that isn't in the "officially approved" image of what should be on the school computers.

ICT in school is in dire need of a shakeup. Perhaps the Raspberry Pi will mark the beginning of a new approach — schools just need to be bold enough to adopt it.

Am surprised more FLOSS stuff doesn't get into the school.