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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.)
That might be a valid complaint if, in fact, we paid for these schools voluntarily. Anyone who pays taxes (most people) pays for schools, whether they like it or not. Failure to pay those taxes will result in the police coming to kidnap you and lock you in a cage. Failure to comply with the demand to be locked in a cage can result in serious injury or even death.
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I for one can't wait until this "government school scheduling program"
is applied to my government-run healthcare system to schedule patients.
Yay?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
You're an idiot if you don't think we're spending enough money on education.
Never mind, you're not a fool, you're a paranoid.
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Learn to RTFA, dumbfuck conservatard. I know it's hard with all those words, but c'mon.
you're a moron
no matter how good it is, it is human nature always wants to make things better
Does NOT suck...
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
The government system was likely by hand computer combination and departmentalized to the local schools. In other words, it was getting too old and outdated as well as labor intensive. The district wanted something different.
As for your Obama comment, do you deny end of life counseling in the two health bills floating around Washington? Or are you just another fanboy who takes a politician at their words instead of reading the legislation for themselves?
As a fellow MD resident, I believe I am correct in saying that PG County is the asshole of the state.
Baltimore? That's the actual feces.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
And what did you do with the time you were getting paid before you got your classroom assignment.
Teachers always have great excuses for being lazy fucks, but I've yet to have a teacher give me a valid reason that they do such a shitty job.
Yada yada yada, we don't get paid enough and have too much work to do, bitch bitch bitch.
Having worked around my highschool before and after the school year as a part time job I can safely say you had plenty of time to be prepared and instead you spent it not being there or talking to the others about what you did last summer or were planning to do next summer.
Quit your fucking bitching and do your job before you are replaced with a small perl script. Probably a short one liner, most likely a single printf statement.
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As they said higher up in the thread, "your a moron".
The government screws-up everything it touches. Look at the Cash-for-Clunkers program - many dealers voluntarily decided "we're done" because they're not getting paid their ~$4000 per car allowance. And also the clunker-cars were *destroyed*. Why? Why weren't they recycled for their parts? Stupid, stupid, stupid. And not environmentally-friendly.
And then there's the government-run schools which are horrible. The government-run post office is bankrupt, and yet the private companies like FedEx and UPS are booming. Government-run interstates are collapsing (literally in the case of the Minneapolis' bridge). And government-run Amtrak is also nearly bankrupt.
And the war. The government can't even win. Why the heck would I want I want to have this kind ineptitude controlling my body, and deciding whether or not I get my broken are fixed, or my prostate examined, or whatever. We're not just talking about messed-up schedules, but ME, myself, and I. I have an inalienable right to control my body, and Washington wants to take-away that right and hand-it-over to bureaucrats that don't give a damn. I might as well step into a time machine and sell myself to a Southern Plantation, because if this program passes, that's what I will be.
Pass. They'll just frak it up like they frak-up everything else.
Read my signature. The problem is small (3%) therefore all we need is a small solution, like extending Medicare to Welfare or Food Stamp recipients, and leave the other 97% of Americans alone. To have a wholesale takeover by a government monopoly to fix such a small (3%) problem is bass-backwards, illogical, and flat-out ridiculous.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall