So will Teachers strike ?

[Grand58742]

For all of those who are denying this is happening, well, here you go. The Teachers Union is avidly Socialist Progressives and are using this strike as a political tool.

On a side note, I'd crawl across five miles of burning sand to drink Martha's bath water.

[glocktogo]

Having worked in the .mil system and as a Private Contracting system I'm pretty sure not having multiple contingency plans on hand and available was not only not acceptable you might find yourself adrift and without a position or a job and facing an awful lot of professional ridicule.
And yet year after year we watch our Public Education system flounder and well, we are willing to accept that.
This is absolutely unacceptable and NO ONE is willing to tackle the problem.

To be fair, nothing they've ever done was critical enough to merit contingency plans or emergency backups. After all, it's just your kids, right?

[ghideon]

You’d hope they would, right? But, I think that’s oversimplifying things. I’m not trying to defend these folks, but when you test a system out over the summer, and it’s just the professional IT guys testing it out, and it works great, you can’t assume that things are going to work great when the rest of the staff and students are using it. You just added a whole new set of variables into the equation, and a lot of people that don’t always know much about computer systems.

It’s not entirely different from fielding a new weapons system. Maybe it works great in the hands of the engineers and the top tier end users, but as soon as the rank and file grunts get their hands on it, the system that was once deemed bomb proof, starts falling apart.

Take this for an example: In my district, over the summer it was discovered that if you take a Ethernet cable and plug it in to the Ethernet jack and then take the other end and plug it into another jack, it shorts out the whole district network. I guess the IT guys had a hell of a time trying to figure out what was going on until someone discovered the looped connection. None of them had ever anticipated someone putting both ends into a jack. They’re professionals. Why would you ever do something like that? It serves no purpose. Then some bored administrator’s kid starts playing around with a loose end. Why? Who knows? He was bored, and then ZAP! Whole system is down and all the IT guys are searching for a virus or malware, the kind of things you’d expect to crash a network. I hope none of the students ever find out about this.

Ah yes. The classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_loop. Professionals are predictable, amateurs are dangerous.

It should only wreck the layer 2 segment has the switching loop, but this being a school they probably didn't have the time/money to design a proper fault tolerant network.

The same can be said of the remote learning effort. Tried to use a bunch of cloud solutions to lower the cost/barrier to entry, threw in some local consulting perhaps, along with whatever .edu software providers are out there and delivered something that didn't scale well. I can only hope the consultants didn't make too much money off of this fiasco.