Re: Who is to blame for the FCPS BLACKBOARD Multi-Million Dollar Failure ????
Posted by:
Oufpufpufoycoy
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Date: April 22, 2020 05:43PM
Inquisitive One Wrote:
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> #FCPSFireMaribeth Wrote:
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> -----
> > Well hold on to your hats! Teachers working on
> > yet the latest version of a virtual classroom
> this
> > morning crashed the new system as well - with
> just
> > the teachers on it setting up their classrooms.
>
> > Imagine an extra 190,000 students?
> >
> > FCPS Department of Information Technology seems
> to
> > load test only when all their teachers have
> > prepared 45 minute lessons and have asked all
> the
> > parents and students to log in expecting
> education
> > to happen. No load testing other than that.
> >
> > Some disturbing facts:
> >
> > 1) Fairfax County Public Schools has a
> department
> > of Information Technology run by a woman,
> Maribeth
> > Luftglas, married to an executive at
> Blackboard.
> >
> > What a conflict of interest. You think anybody
> > who works for her is going to suggest a
> competing
> > product to Blackboard? Not if they want to
> keep
> > their jobs.
> >
> > A number of years ago, there was a news story
> on
> > the local NBC affiliate about Blackboard. Had
> > interviews with the company, quotes from an
> > executive, then the reporter "went out into
> > Fairfax County" to a "random" house and found
> four
> > boys around the kitchen table working on their
> > computers on Blackboard, while their homemaker
> > mother baked cookies (literally with an apron
> and
> > pulling the baking sheet out of the oven). The
> > only thing was, the little homemaker was our
> head
> > of Information Technology (she was not
> identified
> > as such) and the laptops the boys were using
> were
> > owned by FCPS and ripped out of some cart
> > somewhere. Even her broadband was maintained by
> an
> > FCPS employee. What a scam!
> >
> > 2) For twenty years her family's Blackboard
> stock
> > options hung in the balance as
> everyone--students,
> > teachers, parents--complained about Blackboard.
> >
> > 3) For more than five years, FPCS has approved
> the
> > use of Google Classroom, Google Meet, Google
> Docs
> > and the entire suite of Google products. They
> > have been in use in FCPS on a large scale.
> FPCS
> > has a "walled garden" within Google called
> > fcpsschools.net, with features like an
> individual
> > email for each student and they can only
> received
> > messages from school personal and other
> students.
> >
> > Google Classroom has already been approved by
> > FCPS's rigorous security process.
> >
> > With one tweet, FCPS's School Board could turn
> off
> > blackboard and blackboard collaborate and let
> the
> > lawyers figure out getting out of the contracts
> > and we could immediately be using a system with
> > Google behind it.
> >
> > But instead, Maribeth Luftglas is going to jam
> > another Blackboard product (Blackboard
> > collaborate) down everybody's throats.
> >
> > $10 says on Tuesday April 28th we all get yet
> > another video apology from FCPS saying they are
> > going to take another week and move everybody
> over
> > to Google Classroom??
> >
> > #FCPSFireMaribeth
>
> All of the elements of a wonderful socialist
> system! Incompetence, conflicts of interest,
> corruption, narcissism, greed and more greed!
This guy posted this on another thread. Her husband does not, nor has he ever worked for blackboard.