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My spouse teaches in a school that is an isolated area between hills and has so little cell signal that teachers are forced to go outside and stand in a particu
by Wistar 4y ago
My spouse teaches in a school that is an isolated area between hills and has so little cell signal that teachers are forced to go outside and stand in a particular part of the parking lot and wave their phones around to transmit or receive a text message, let alone a phone call.
District IT policy prohibits teachers from connecting their phones to the school wifi network (along with many other frivolously absurd IT policies).
For three years, I have sent email to various administrators, including to the school superintendent, pointing out how dangerous it is for teachers to have no cell signal, especially if there is an emergency such as an active shooter or whatever. Beyond a polite response promising that it'll will be "looked in to," nothing has come of my messages.
Last week, teachers across the district were told that they are soon to be required to use 2FA using their personal cell phones to authenticate to the school network for email, grading software, etc.
I have no idea how this will be able to work at her school.
- brokenmachine 4y agoIt always makes me wonder when businesses expect people to use their personal devices for a business service. I know everyone has a phone nowadays but the business should really be paying at least part of the cost for those devices. Same with working from home.
- klhutchins 4y agoYeah, I don't care about the hassle of having two phones... If you want me to use a business mandated software, give me a phone or another alternative. Work software won't be on my phone.
- astrange 4y ago2FA using an authenticator app doesn’t need a network connection. If they mean 2FA by receiving text messages, then it could of course. School administrators aren’t capable of giving you more cell signal though. Those microcells don’t work that well and are specific to your carrier, I think? Complain to the carrier.
- Wistar 4y agoI realize that the district cannot fix the signal strength but needs to bring some political strength in complaining to the carriers. The 2FA is text but should be authenticator.