Re: Bus problems on the first day of school Archived Message
Posted by machine_easy2 on August 21, 2016, 11:11 am, in reply to "Re: Bus problems on the first day of school"
Right, what part of this statement in my post didn't you understand? A system like this, would not correct the problem of the buses running late, or being overfilled. But, it would correct the most important problem of all, and that is a child not being able to be located while in their care. Perhaps I should state myself more clearly: The biggest problem of all is not the inability of a school system to provide a pupils exact GPS coordinates at any given moment, while in their care. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, comes into mind for some reason. THE problem, the one your expensive system propurts to solve a result of, is governments being really lousy at doing their jobs. In general, people who work for government, are not very good at their jobs. Thats the problem. Here it manifests it's self as school administrator telling the bus company one of their drivers will drop off kids at a school thats not been open in years. Technology, or barcode scanners in this case, don't fix stupid. You can't fix stupid, and it's the natural state of many, if not most, in the education industry. You have no idea, if you are not a parent and never have been a parent, you have NO idea. And, if you compare a 5 year or 6 year old child being dropped off of a bus unsupervised (NO WHERE) near it's home or neighborhood, to having "lost sight" of them, you are even more clueless than I first suspected! I might not be a parent, but I am a technologist. I've actually been paid to build systems similar to what you advocate. These systems are expensive, and do not work well. Thats not the fault of it's builder, it's the fault of the users. Try to make something idiot proof, and God WILL come along with a bigger idiot. In this case, a school admin who told the bus company to drop kids off at a closed school (I'm still looking for verification on that, was that where the bus was ordered too?). And a bus driver who didn't happen to notice the school was closed- YEARS AGO. That doesn't even scratch the surface of use cases, like the kid forgetting his ID that day, so on and so forth. If this is something what worries you so much, you can buy a kids GPS watch for something like $30, go buy one, and put it on the kids you feel the need know the location of at the drop of a hat. In fact, it might be cheaper and work better, to do that for all small kids in the system, than the one you advocate. It's not going to add 20 seconds per passenger to load and unload times either.
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