Buna ISD....This is Probably Not Going to Work

 So, the latest, new invention, or technological invention coming from the Buna ISD administration is this jewel....

The school district is going to a computer substitute program.  

Teachers will be required to go to the school's website and schedule the days they are going to be absent and then, schedule their own substitutes. 

I am wonder, I know there are people who have been super ill and a family member has had to call the school and arrange a sub for them.( It happens more than you know.) Will that person be able to navigate the district's sub program on their own? 

I know other districts have tried it before and in most cases, it was a disaster. ( See Beaumont ISD)

There are people who barely have phone service in South Jasper County, much less internet. What are they supposed to do? ( We passed a broadband internet service proposal for rural Texas in the last election, the question now, is....How will they implement it? And the answer is, they do not know.)  

Supposedly if the substitute the teacher chooses isn’t available, then you must continue to search until one is available.

Trouble is, the district is short subs. 

The district's secretaries have already warned the administrators that this is not going to work... Want to know who really runs the district, look at the secretaries in every school, the ladies down in the administration office. Without them, the place falls apart, quickly. You may think I tease when I say this, but I am serious, they're the most powerful people in any school district. 

How, and why does this effect you as a parent? 

There is a good possibility that glitches might occur and there will be no one in class for the kids that morning? 

And the internet is not always working at the schools themselves now, and without the internet, announcements can't be made. 

Sometimes, heck, a lot of times changes is not always good....