I've worked with a couple of school systems. Generally speaking, they're a mess and a situation like this comes as no surprise. The kids and actual educators a

I've worked with a couple of school systems. Generally speaking, they're a mess and a situation like this comes as no surprise. The kids and actual educators are caught between the competing interests of: 1) Parents groups, potentially led by self-serving parents. Multiple times I've seen a group demand the county a adopt a specific technical solution - which happens to be sold by the company where one parent is an account rep. 2) Individual schools trying to create their own standards. Not uncommon half a dozen schools spend tens of thousands each on some solution rather than pull together on a something centralized at a tiny fraction of the per school cost. Any large-scale solution ends up being a committee-driven decision, likely involving #3. 3) Aggressive vendors and VARs who sell solutions from the top-down via relationships and Gartner studies in place of quality or specific fit. 4) Under-skilled administrators.