[pudgeball]

<disclaimer>Before I start, I would like to say that this is my personal opinion and whatever floats your boat is fine with me. </disclaimer>

I would pick GIT over SVN because I enjoy using git more. And yes while having to teach the kids to use git through the command line is more work, I think it would benefit them. It means that they can sit down at a new machine and get going with the concepts and stuff they've learned. Plugins are nice but not necessary.