Yes - a percentage of schools have bad IT systems and bad IT staff (Consistency is key, letters.computing.co.uk).

The same goes for industry, and for any department in an organisation. The situation should be remedied by cutting out the cancers, not killing the entire organism.

The IT portion of BSF is  using a blanket approach to all schools to fix a problem in a small percentage of schools. Unfortunately, the majority of schools who have superior IT services will be caught under this as well, and the standards decreased.

The BSF-not-so-smart bomb, is going to do far more collateral damage than is worth the problem it's trying to fix.

Marc Blake