Re: LOGO-L> Intensive Logo in Australia

["Gary S. Stager" <gstager@pepperdine.edu>]

>Its interesting that the Coombabah government school experiment in intensive 
>began at the same time as MLC. After a 4 year trial (at Coombabah) which 
>by all 
>accounts was successful this innovation was not continued. Good logo 
>teachers 
>then migrated over to the Private system. 

Hi Bill,

I actually worked at Coombabah before I worked at MLC and naively 
believed that THEY would succeed and not MLC. At the time, the Queensland 
Govt. was promising a laptop for every kid in the state within a couple 
of years. Within that period they abandoned support for just 60 kids. ALL 
schools and administrators have a problem with attention-span.

I had a ball working at Coombabah and am rather fond of the professionals 
involved.

Parenthetically, the Queensland Ministry of Education has owed me $100 
since 1990 when they made me share a motel room with two others AND pay! 
This should have been a harbinger for the laptop program.

-=Gary
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