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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is laughable that some folks use salary as a reason to fire an FCPS employee. I would argue that a CEO responsible for over 200,000 individuals is underpaid at 290K. That said, this is an monumental failure and some heads should roll. Luftglass (assistant superintendent of the Department of Information Technology) not recommending blackboard be updated over the last 3 year and expecting it to work? She blames Blackboard for this? Then she blames the training teachers received (and by extention the trainers) for the failures? Sad when a higher up's failure leads them to blame the line worker.[/quote]

Agree.  Actually, a lot of it does sound like Blackboard's fault, [b]since they host all of FCPS[/b].  Blame them, not the FCPS IT or teachers.  [/quote]

This part is unclear- we hear one person say that it's a BB-hosted (aka cloud) installation, then we hear someone else say that it's hosted internally (by FCPS), so until we have a clear picture of that, it's hard to say who is more at fault. If it's hosted by BB, typically they would perform the maintenance and roll out updates on their own schedule; additional features purchased by FCPS would be installed by BB (but perhaps activated/turned on by FCPS). Any performance issues would be on BB in this scenario. If it's hosted by FCPS, then it would be up to them to install updates and upgrades and FCPS would be responsible for performance issues. It's also possible that it's a hybrid that first touches FCPS before going to BB,  in which case there are multiple potential points of failure.

Regardless, though, of who specifially dropped the ball(s), the response by Braband, Luftglass & Co has been inappropriate and embarrassing. I don't know how the SBTSs and Teachers can report to work today and feel like they're supported in any way by the district. [/quote]

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