I have just known that (in portuguese), and it is astonishing. You can read more about this in Blog of Helios and The Contractor UK, both in English.
The summary
Karen (the teacher) saw students around a laptop, and went to understand it. She found one of them with the laptop showing what Linux could do in his machine (take a look at some of this videos). Not only this, but he was GIVING copies of it to his friends.
Karen kept them all and after talking to the students, she had a name: Ken Starks. She wrote the email with lots of wrong ideas. Both emails, from Karen and Starks' answer are in Blog of Helios.
The worst
Even in US, a great country, even in Texas, a great state, developed, with lots of technologies, lots of people just don't know that there are others possibilities besides MS Windows. A teacher, whose responsability is to prepare youngs , should know this. At least, not to be saying so many wrong things.
I have no doubt: she did what she understood as correct. Where she saw a threat to the kids, she reacted in defense of them. But she is indeed not prepared. Not in technology matters.
She needs to stay in touch with technoloy, as to other subjects. Or else, she may be teaching that the Earth is flat ...
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