Since the days of the TRS-80 governments, especially public schools, have had a troubling relationship incorporating technology into anything they try to do. It isn't clear why, but to the outside, objective observer it appears they don't know what they're doing, they don't even know what they want to do. And they clearly do not know how to do it.
And this is odd. Out in the real world technology has been used for over three decades to improve operational efficacy and offer stakeholders new features and improvements to existing services. Over that time systems have been installed, maintained, upgraded and replaced without the disastrous results we see in the DeKalb public school system. It is almost as if they are trying to fail.
But all is not lost. One board member, leveraging the favorite technique of politicians, relativism, has hope:
“I’m looking forward to an even better report next year.”
Perhaps this member is sure it cannot get worse. Smart money would not underestimate this school system's ability to fail.
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