Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days

Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that thousands of high school students in Prince George's County missed a third day of classes Wednesday, and school officials said it could take more than a week to sort out the chaos caused by a computerized class-scheduling system as students were placed in gyms, auditoriums, cafeterias, libraries and classes they didn't want or need at high schools across the county and their parents' fury over the logistical nightmare rose. 'The school year comes up the same time every year,' said Carolyn Oliver, the mother of a 16-year-old senior who spent Wednesday in the senior lounge at Bowie High School. 'When I heard they didn't have schedules, I was like, "What have they been doing all summer?"' When school opened Monday, about 8,000 high school students had no class schedules and were sent to wait in holding spaces while administrators tried to sort things out." (More below.)

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i hear they're not going to bury ted kenney...

[Anonymous Coward]

they're going to flush him. what a fucking turd.

Re:As a Maryland Resident..

[BitZtream]

As an alternative you could actually try being a parent and paying attention the old fashioned way rather than using a website.

Likewise, the lazy fucks of teachers and administration could sit down with a pencil and paper and schedule the old fashioned way, you know, with their heads.

Teachers aren't paid too little, they are paid too much and do too little. Its funny that teachers in rural areas of the country seem to be doing so much better than all the high tech electronic areas where they get paid more.

But hey, what do I know, you keep on being a half assed parent and I'll keep on laughing at you when you post about retarded shit happening at your school because of technology not working while the rest of the world does fine sans technology.

I write this as a parent and a software developer. I write software to help people, not as a replacement for people and there in lies the problem, administrators and teachers know and do less and less and expect more and more pay.