I do agree that the ideal is to indeed teach transferable skills. I do also think that bashing the unions is ridiculous when they clearly weren't involved and are of course directed by the workers giving them a well needed voice. Lastly, kids DO need to be taught windows... Transferable skills are great, but its true that windows rules the industry and probably always will. It still wins on compatibility and ease of use in many ares... I can't see it ever being toppled, however much I support linux.

Dual boot 7 and Ubutnu here!