I'm more optimistical, and and I hope that will be realistic.
First, the Pis will be given to individual students, not school staff. This means that they won't be locked in the cupboard between yearly "look at a computer" classes, but can be taken home by the kids to tinker with.
Second, the entire point of the Raspberry Pi project is to make a computer so cheap that nobody cares if they are broken now and then.
Broken computers are not actually the most important problem. It's worse to lock down computers in hardware boxes and software restrictions so that the students can't experiment for themselves. On a normal school or home computer, the adults will forbid any sort of tinkering, because the expensive/important computer might break. If the Raspberry Pi software gets messed up, you insert a new SDCard. If the hardware gets broken, it's just $35. Hopefully this will make the teachers and parents think that the Pis are just toys, and allow kids to break them.
First, the Pis will be given to individual students, not school staff. This means that they won't be locked in the cupboard between yearly "look at a computer" classes, but can be taken home by the kids to tinker with.
Second, the entire point of the Raspberry Pi project is to make a computer so cheap that nobody cares if they are broken now and then.
Broken computers are not actually the most important problem. It's worse to lock down computers in hardware boxes and software restrictions so that the students can't experiment for themselves. On a normal school or home computer, the adults will forbid any sort of tinkering, because the expensive/important computer might break. If the Raspberry Pi software gets messed up, you insert a new SDCard. If the hardware gets broken, it's just $35. Hopefully this will make the teachers and parents think that the Pis are just toys, and allow kids to break them.