PowerSchool Software Helps School Districts

nycroft writes "Apple is helping school districts help teachers with PowerSchool, a platform-independent, web-based, student information system. PowerSchool enables teachers and administrators in school districts of up to 10,000 students to produce schedules and reports in minutes, and to generate attendance records, grade checks, report cards, transcripts, and form letters in just a few clicks. And all in real-time." It also allows such real-time access by parents to their kids' grades; I am so glad this wasn't around when I was a kid.

Comments

Re:not the best idea

[Mononoke]

my highschool had suh poar security on teachers computers not to mention the hole network. nothing like letting the kids play with their grades or poking fun at others.

And now we know how you ended up with a diploma.

Re:not the best idea

[Anonymous Coward]

my highschool had suh poar security on teachers computers not to mention the hole network. nothing like letting the kids play with their grades or poking fun at others.

Sounds like your high school had much more serious issues to focus on...

This has been around for a while, hasn't it?

[shayborg]

I seem to remember a big to-do about it a couple years back, but I may be mistaken ...

-- shayborg

cool

[bobba22]

Everyone knows you don't really learn much of any value at school. Maybe they can extend this program further by modelling your first, lets say 10 years at school, attendance, results etc to predict how your life would pan out. If you would be of little value to society, then, I dunno, join the police or something similar. Sounds like a great idea ;-)