Do parents need to download the remind app?

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Vincent's Secondary School St. Download for iOS. Download for Android. Correction: The school lunch, at least for years , is decidedly not amazing but it is free. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting a different result. An equally radical idea, I'm sure. This is profoundly simple compared to the bullshit "course management systems" that we are stuck with in American universities.

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Stockholm's official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version -- ignoring warnings that it might be illegal. From a report: Commissioned in , Skolplattform was intended to make the lives of up to , children, teachers, and parents in Stockholm easier -- acting as the technical backbone for all things education, from registering attendance to keeping a record of grades.

The sprawling system is used by preschools and schools, with separate logins for every teacher, student, and parent. The only problem? It doesn't work. Parents and teachers have complained about the complexity of the system -- its launch was delayed, there have been reports of project mismanagement, and it has been labelled an IT disaster.

The Android version of the app has an average 1. On October 23, , Landgren, a developer and the CEO of Swedish innovation consulting firm Iteam, tweeted a hat design emblazoned with the words "Skrota Skolplattformen" -- loosely translated as "trash the school platform. Weeks later, wearing that very hat, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He wrote to city officials asking to see the Skolplattform's API documents.

While waiting for a response, he logged into his account and tried to work out whether the system could be reverse-engineered. In just a few hours, he had created something that worked. Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, Sweden's data regulator, had found serious flaws in the platform that had exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of parents, children, and teachers.

In some cases, people's personal information could be accessed from Google searches. The flaws have since been fixed and the fine reduced on appeal. In the weeks that followed, Landgren teamed up with fellow developers and parents Johan Obrink and Erik Hellman, and the trio hatched a plan. They would create an open source version of the Skolplattform and release it as an app that could be used by frustrated parents across Stockholm. Building on Landgren's earlier work, the team opened Chrome's developer tools, logged into the Skolplattform, and wrote down all the URLs and payloads.

They took the code, which called the platform's private API and built packages so it could run on a phone -- essentially creating a layer on top of the existing, glitchy Skolplattform. The app was released on February 12, , and all of its code is published under an open source license on GitHub. Anyone can take or use the code, with very few limitations on what they can do with it. If the city wanted to use any of the code, it could. But rather than welcome it with open arms, city officials reacted with indignation.

Even before the app was released, the City of Stockholm warned Landgren that it might be illegal. In the eight months that followed, Stockholms Stad, or the City of Stockholm, attempted to derail and shut down the open source app. It warned parents to stop using the app and alleged that it might be illegally accessing people's personal information.

Officials reported the app to data protection authorities and, Landgren claims, tweaked the official system's underlying code to stop the spin-off from operating at all. These Parents Built a School App. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Reply Login. News Flash Score: 2 , Insightful. Re:News Flash Score: 5 , Insightful. It's a big club and you ain't in it.

Reply to This Parent Share twitter facebook. Re:News Flash Score: 4 , Funny. Re: Score: 3. Ultra writes:.

Well please dig and try to find that. Basically that is not how public procurements works over here, and the project have changed contractors at least once when the first one selected couldn't deliver what they promised on the terms that they agreed to.

Re:News Flash Score: 5 , Funny. Re: News Flash Score: 3. They can't if the majority of the Gov't is in the pockets of the corporations. People with Power Score: 5 , Insightful. Reply to This Share twitter facebook. Re:People with Power Score: 5 , Interesting. I don't know how old you are, but I went through a similar thing and then it went a bit further. Our goal as regular people who generally don't seek leadership is to choose the best sociopath to be our leader : I use that word sociopath on purpose.

They're easy to spot Score: 2. It's hard enough to get people to show up for a mid term, let alone a primary. Re: Score: 2. I couldn't agree more.

Thank you for posting such insightful post. Natural reaction Score: 3 , Insightful. I see it is the same in many places Score: 2 , Flamebait. And no one else is invited to the party. Very similar situation Score: 5 , Interesting.

That's the sane solution: cut your loses and embrace what works. Reality check Score: 4 , Informative. I have so many questions Score: 3. If your school district is anywhere in the EU, they're in for a fine. The GDPR has been in force for a while, so there is plenty of precedent covering exactly this situation by now. They are using BankID which is the standard way to digitally authenticate a person in Sweden for banks and stores.

Huge post Score: 2. Is it my imagination or has Slashdot started posting much longer "synopses" on the front page? This one is long enough that you just read it and ignore the original. Is this just to fill up more space? Does it allow more ads on the side? Why is this happening? Inquiring minds want to know. Re:Huge post Score: 4 , Funny. I'm pretty sure they are getting longer, but let's get one thing straight: there has never been a synopsis on slashdot that was so short you couldn't ignore the original!

The city reversed that a month ago Score: 5 , Informative. Ultra writes: on Monday November 08, AM Good link and update. Is this actually about buying to close it down? Not an uncommon strategy used by many big name IT companies - one does not have to have oracular powers to find them. Re:The city reversed that a month ago Score: 5 , Informative.

Ultra writes: on Monday November 08, PM The reason that the city is wanting to buy the app is so that they can hand it out for free to parents, schools and teachers of the city.

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