<div class="gmail_quote">On 23 March 2013 12:37, David Lyon (Hackerpads) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.lyon@hackerpads.com" target="_blank">david.lyon@hackerpads.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Here's an interesting blog on teaching CS in Vietnam:<br>
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- <a href="http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/" target="_blank">http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/</a><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Awesome story. This para just floored me. Both for the need to be met as well as the way it was done by circumventing Head Office:<br>
<br>"The CS teacher was excited and promised to teach Blockly the next day.
But there was another issue compromising the class. Due to a lack of
funds, the school could not afford two CS teachers, so half the school
was unable to take CS. I asked what a teacher's salary was. $100 per
month. So I went to an ATM and bought them a second teacher for the
next year."<br><br>One of the odd occasions where one solution really was to just throw some money against it.<br><br>-- <br>-- Ian<br><br>