tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post3767211489518801386..comments2024-03-28T02:21:17.452-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Trust UpdateMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-91363047051959242011-03-23T12:08:47.262-07:002011-03-23T12:08:47.262-07:00$10.5M in IT Budget and we can't get a decent ...$10.5M in IT Budget and we can't get a decent website?<br /><br />grumpy<br /><br />WV: pingerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-37581959399408309052011-03-22T19:36:17.546-07:002011-03-22T19:36:17.546-07:00Dr Enfield's office hours all are booked up th...Dr Enfield's office hours all are booked up through June. They aren't taking any more appointments.... Guess that is a good thing and a bad thing.<br /><br />PALAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-5502262550556535872011-03-22T08:46:45.789-07:002011-03-22T08:46:45.789-07:00The board refused to require the district to hire ...The board refused to require the district to hire an operations person - content strategist - in conjunction with the passage of the money to license the new technology. Which is dumb, because then the 6-figure technology doesn't actually get used.<br /><br />You get what you pay for and in this case the administration didn't want anymore outsiders in house and the board simply didn't pay attention to at least one strongly worded letter, written by my friend, that they'd get the result that you are seeing right now. If you don't like the current product, write in and complain and cc: the board every single time. The amount of content that is "missing" is absolutely horrendous.<br /><br />-skeptical-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-56592309119086309802011-03-22T00:53:17.697-07:002011-03-22T00:53:17.697-07:00dw,
What you said is perhaps very true:
"Bu...dw,<br /><br />What you said is perhaps very true:<br /><br /><i><b>"But then everyone would whine about the quality of the website and how they can't find anything.<br /><br />Just another example of how people around here want everything but don't want to pay for it."</b></i><br /><br />However people are tired of paying and paying and getting essentially nothing in a great many areas in the SPS.dan dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15536720661510933983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-87674380021730343412011-03-21T23:55:35.599-07:002011-03-21T23:55:35.599-07:00The website issues could easily be fixed by hiring...The website issues could easily be fixed by hiring a content strategist.<br /><br />But then everyone would whine the district was wasting money on hiring a content strategist and how it was just another sign everyone was overpaid at the Stanford Center.<br /><br />So they'd dump the content strategist and go back to doing it in-house with the skeleton writing crew they have.<br /><br />But then everyone would whine about the quality of the website and how they can't find anything.<br /><br />Just another example of how people around here want everything but don't want to pay for it.dwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735503669484140321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-65943214186846028172011-03-21T20:39:01.294-07:002011-03-21T20:39:01.294-07:00"The District had to admit that they couldn&#..."The District had to admit that they couldn't be relied upon to do Ethics Compliance in-house."<br /><br />That didn't occur at all, Charlie. They acknowledged that they could not start an effective ethics compliance program from the ground up. The way you make it sound is that they said "we are just an unreliable, unethical bunch of schmucks that can't be trusted, so we had to outsource teh function." If you really think that, then I have to start moving you from the sane and reasonable column, to the marginally sane, and somewhat unreasonable column. Even if you ran for the Board (again) and won, you would not be able to do more than what they have been trying to do.<br /><br />"The superintendent's weekly Open Office Hours are by appointment and each appointment is 15 minutes long. It gives the word "Open" an interesting twist. I'm not sure what sort of discussion can occur in 15 minutes".<br /><br />Maybe the same kind of discussion that happens between a doctor and their patient - and that lasts only 10 minutes.Michael Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-15481297671238592122011-03-21T19:44:45.252-07:002011-03-21T19:44:45.252-07:00I wrote to the Board about several issues and one ...I wrote to the Board about several issues and one was the website. I inquired if it was done. There seems to be a lot missing and yet no word on if this is it.<br /><br />BEX continues to have its very own website (that looks nothing like SPS's). I never understood that.<br /><br />FYI, looking for something? Go to Google, type in "Seattle Schools" and then the name, program, whatever. It generally pulls up pages and documents.Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12588239576000641336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-35283609685089790202011-03-21T19:15:32.908-07:002011-03-21T19:15:32.908-07:00I'm taking a wait and see approach with our ne...I'm taking a wait and see approach with our new superintendent. We all have a vested interest in student-oriented improvements and success....mirmac1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10183460709639638172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-76482277738440616492011-03-21T16:58:52.774-07:002011-03-21T16:58:52.774-07:00The new website makes it h ard to find ANYTHING if...The new website makes it h ard to find ANYTHING if you can't follow the creators "menu" thinking!!Just sayinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-15165922287291640862011-03-21T16:43:01.252-07:002011-03-21T16:43:01.252-07:00Anyone have any idea why the district felt compell...Anyone have any idea why the district felt compelled to spend $700,000 on the website?<br /><br />At this point, we are worse off with it as it has less information than the old one.<br /><br />What's the gain?Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540428343439198125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-56390119304322669382011-03-21T15:22:05.296-07:002011-03-21T15:22:05.296-07:00I am stunned by how little information is on the n...I am stunned by how little information is on the new website, and now by the fact that the links that go back to the old website don't work anymore. Frustrating!Johnny Calcagnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12198948404356096884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-2457759411464143182011-03-21T12:53:44.881-07:002011-03-21T12:53:44.881-07:00Re. the 15 minute appointments, I would suggest th...Re. the 15 minute appointments, I would suggest that you find three other people who care about your issue and book an hour. If you can't find three others then your issue probably isn't worth more than 15 minutes of the Superintendent's time. That said, a reasonable amount gets said in 15 minute intervals at the Board Directors' coffees.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18444916440000921599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-63952708178737058192011-03-21T12:12:39.451-07:002011-03-21T12:12:39.451-07:001. The District had to admit that they couldn'...<em>1. The District had to admit that they couldn't be relied upon to do Ethics Compliance in-house.</em><br /><br />That increases my trust in them, if anything.<br /><br />Helen Schinskehschinskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316478950862562594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-15694551538770664382011-03-21T11:59:19.392-07:002011-03-21T11:59:19.392-07:00"The District had to admit that they couldn&#..."The District had to admit that they couldn't be relied upon to do Ethics Compliance in-house."<br /><br />It's very common for private industry to outsource the ethics question and complaint business. I work for a company that has a very good ethics policy and culture. We still have an outside ethics hotline in addition to the regular "complain through your manager" chain. Of course, if anyone had said that a $1.8M fraud was too far below them, they would have been cleaning out their desks that afternoon. <br /><br />Given that there is a historical perception (and reality in some cases) of retaliation at SPS, having an outside ethics system is only a good thing.Eric Bnoreply@blogger.com