I remember asking my high school's one-man IT department this exact question, and he said that the school needs someone to sue in the event something goes wrong.
I know that if I found myself suddenly a school technology administrator person, I would be very inclined to take the easy way out and just install windows on all the lab computers. I would do this if only so that I did not have to fight the stupid mentality of "You have to teach these 5th graders how to use obscure features of a version of MS Word that will be a decade and a half out of date by the time they graduate"
Seriously, every "vocational" computer skills class I ever had was absolutely worthless. They should shitcan all of those classes and teach something that is actually worldview expanding... but that will never happen. The people in charge of making those decisions will all inevitably think that those courses are important because they are teaching the tools that they are currently using.
Sounds like a startup opportunity to me!
> redhat
They'd probably be decent at it...if they made a conscious high-level decision to devote resources to focus on the education market, and followed through.