Montgomery County School System-Computers Down

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Apparently there is a major problem though it is unknown as to the cause so far. People will be working all weekend to try to fix it.

This was on a radio station and should be in the washington Post tomorrow. I will update when I have more news.

By the way, the statement said the entire system was down.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), September 04, 1999

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Wow!!!!!!

The pride of Md. I guess the IEEE will be vindicated with their assessment that even if everyone is compliant...................??

-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), September 04, 1999.


This is just to give an idea of the money this county has and the amount it spends on education. This from the budget itself.

BUDGET OVERVIEW

The total approved FY00 Operating Budget for Montgomery County Public Schools is $1,105,644,145, an increase of $70,875,615 or 6.9 percent from the FY99 approved budget of $1,034,768,340.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), September 04, 1999.


This kind of story makes me glad that I am still an inner city school teacher. I contacted our computer man last summer and he wondered why I was anxious about a possible y2k glitch. In his way of thinking, the district had little reliance upon the computer relating to its very livelihood. We don't teach via computer. Very few of us grade via computer and as he so eloquently explained, our direct deposit did not 'seem' to have any problems upon testing. In his way of thinking, our check's date on it was more for display purposes, and a back-up system of paying employees could be easily devised.

He also stated that teachers giving instruction should not really be an issue, and that heating and light were beyond our control.

More notably, his programming department had only come aboard the district a few years ago and were still the same crew as was there when the department began.

I'm not overly naive, but you know, sometimes its good to do things the tried and true way...and leave the techie advancements for the rich districts.

Regards

-- Bad Company (johnny@shootingstar.com), September 04, 1999.


Montgomery County, Maryland ... Isn't that supposed to be the "poster county" for Y2K compliance (much like the Social Security Administration is for the Fed Gov't -- LOL!)? And isn't that where that Steve Davis dude, who was speaking on behalf of Koskinen re the Navy report last month, is supposed to have been involved in Y2K remediation?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), September 04, 1999.

KoS, ya don't spose der's a CLUE, eh?
"We're all done and ready and better than everybody else, neener neener, lookeee!"
[ O $#!+]

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 04, 1999.


KOS, we are the "poster county" and I believe Steve Davis was involved in some of the remediation effort.

Remember that there has been no reason given for the problem. It could be a non-y2k event. What bothers me are all the lies so my initial reaction is to distrust whatever statement may be issued. This sorry state of affairs is courtesy of the government at all levels.

71 working days.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), September 04, 1999.


Mike, I believe Montgomery County is STILL the poster child for all 40 or 50 of the prepared counties across the country. It's a perfect example of "even though you think you're done, you're not". Those counties who worked really hard and got started early and spent serious money and now think they are ready -- had better not give up testing. Montgomery County may be embarrassed now, but at least they are finding failures during the good times, when they can allocate resources to fix things. There may be some hope next year for the (guesstimate) 10 to 15 percent of counties that got started early and are now fixing glitches discovered in testing.

Imagine what all of the unprepared counties around the country will be doing next February -- if anything! Montgomery County will likely be one of the survivors.

-- Margaret J (janssm@aol.com), September 05, 1999.


Margaret:

You wrote:

"Imagine what all of the unprepared counties around the country will be doing next February -- if anything! Montgomery County will likely be one of the survivors."

OK, I've done that.

Now I am trying to imagine what all the unprepared people that live *in* Montgomery County will be doing.

Tom Beckner

-- Tom Beckner (tbeckner@xout.erols.com), September 05, 1999.


I still want to know what all the unprepared people in Montgomery County will be doing.

-- Tom Beckner (tbeckner@xout.erols.com), September 25, 1999.

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