Comment Linux in HS (Score 2, Informative) 427
My high school already uses linux. The entire computer systems lab runs on debian, and the network includes a Cray. It's definitely better than windows - using linux gives students an easy opportunity to work with a supercomputer, and the fact that the system is a linux-based network makes everything easier and faster (as proven by the network covering the rest of the school - all the machines run on windows 98, and the network runs extremely slowly and is very unstable).
Although I'm sure that I'm not introducting anything new here, I just wanted to say that linux does seem to be getting a foothold in high schools. Free, easy, fast...it's definitely here to stay, at least at my school.