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For work stuff,docusign already solves this. Why are schools not on docusign? Budgets? For the same reason they may not subscribe to your potential startup?

• busymichael 7y ago
  Not a startup. Free service for schools, parents. Built by parents, community-run, not for profit. I think the real problem is incentive: the school has no incentive to digitize the form - it is easy for them to just copy the old form and send it out each year. If we build a database of common forms and give parents/schools easy ways to digitize old forms, it gets them over the hurdle. Plus, docusign, etc. don't build a structured database with the data to make it easy to access.
  • badrabbit 7y ago
    Not a bad idea. The only other hurdle would be ISDs would want to have proper support contracts which is hard to have without some form of a fee. Perhaps the community version can have a paid "enterprise" version?
  • matt_s 7y ago
    If the incentive were financial based on the cost per copy of printing, a 10,000 student school with .02 per copy is still only $200 to print a paper form per kid. You're also talking about collecting personal data (contact info, medical info, etc.) digitally which brings on a whole mess of laws for this free service to deal with.