The new school year is underway here in the overly-large school district. And just as in many other areas of the country, our administrators are planning to ban students from using smartphones during the school day.
Again.
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Tweaking a Bad System
Our overly-large school district is changing the standards for grading. Again.
Although the word “change” is being extremely generous for what’s actually happening.
Close To Home
A couple of articles in the national news about our overly-large school district.
Which are probably not going over well in the superintendent’s office since, when I worked for them, our guiding principle was to never do anything that would land in a Washington Post story. Much less on TV news.
Changes. Finally. But Not Necessarily Good Ones.
It has been almost eight years since I stopped working for the overly-large school district. But that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in what’s happening inside the complex bureaucracy I left behind.
Bad Time For a Test
Back when I worked on the instruction side of the overly-large school district, we tried to maintain a good relationship with the people in IT.
Even so, we were pretty sure that most of them really didn’t understand the people they were supposed to be supporting. That was especially true of the folks working on network security.