Apparently a bunch of other applicants for the Tech Support person at Gavi's school have teaching experience in grade schools, so my technical expertise and comfort with and knowledge of this specific community were insufficient for me to be included in the pool of candidates to be interviewed.

sigh

Ah well, it's probably all for the best. Faced with having to administer a network of buggy, insecure Windoze machines, I probably couldn't have kept my mouth shut about the obvious superiority of Macs, especially eMacs....