another good point. Our district has gone through five, count them five, commercial student information systems because the company has either gone bankrupt, been bought out by a larger vendor or depreciated. We just get our data converted, staff trained and somewhat comfortable and then the rug gets pulled out from under us again and we have to start over.

Anyone who think that commercial vendors are there to support education is dreaming. Commercial vendors are there for two reasons only - earnings per share and profitability.

gregg