{"id":1338,"date":"2004-09-01T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T00:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/heads-roll-high-school-schedules-not-ready\/"},"modified":"2004-09-01T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T00:38:18","slug":"heads-roll-high-school-schedules-not-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/heads-roll-high-school-schedules-not-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"heads roll:  high school schedules not ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today was the first day of school in the district of columbia,  and when the 900-or-so students of eastern high school showed up for class,  they were turned away <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjla.com\/news\/stories\/0904\/170044.html\" class=\"broken_link\">because the school schedule wasn&#8217;t ready<\/a>.  preparing a high school master schedule is a hellish adventure.  this i know from first-hand experience.<\/p>\n<p>washington dc has an &#8220;incoming superintendent of schools&#8221; (and the effort to track that guy down is really a whole story unto itself),  so the acting superintendent got to do the duty &#8211; and, for what may be the first time in history, heads rolled in a public school system after a major screwup.<\/p>\n<p>the principal of the school, the assistant superintendent of the high school division and someone from the it department were all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtopnews.com\/index.php?nid=316&amp;sid=258607\" class=\"broken_link\">canned within hours<\/a>.  not bad for the first day.  by the end of the school year, maybe they can get rid of the rest of the dead weight in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today was the first day of school in the district of columbia, and when the 900-or-so students of eastern high school showed up for class, they were turned away because the school schedule wasn&#8217;t ready. preparing a high school master schedule is a hellish adventure. this i know from first-hand experience. washington dc has an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}