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Dude; where’s my grades?

Students in Indiana have caught a lucky break. Four weeks of their grades just got erased forever and ever thanks to a computer malfunction. Ooops. Reminds me of the Justin Timberlake + Janet Jackson clothing malfunction. The difference; at the superbowl, too much was exposed. Here, everything got deleted…

Here’s the skinny on the vanishing homework files; EVSC, or Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation for long, is located in Vanderburgh County in Indiana and is the third largest school district in the state of Indiana, with 41 schools. EVSC recently announced the news on their website under the header “Hardware Malfunction Occurs with EVSC Computer Server”. While the attendance and discipline data has been recovered, “all student grade book assignment data for the current grading period is no longer in the system”.

Bosse High School (schoolfinder map)

Check out the following statement from the site: “After working with IBM engineers around the clock to mitigate data loss, the engineers determined that due to an unfortunate and very rare combination of hardware problems and backup configuration settings…”

Is it just me or is that sentence way too overloaded with unnecessary adjectives and descriptions:

• mitigate (whatever happened to the good old “fix”?)
• around the clock (picture red bull and empty pizza boxes)
• IBM engineers(not just any over-the-counter cookie-cutter engineer)
• determined (after lengthy deliberations and beard stroking)
• unfortunate (an unfortunate series of events)
• very rare (not just rare. This steak was VERY rare. And tender)
• rare (it has since made it to the endangered species list)
• combination (conclusive DNA analysis…)

Here’s what they could have said: “We screwed up big time. We feel like idiots. School is out for summer.” (It’s a shame I am not a school principal.)

Anyways, report cards at four schools will not be issued as scheduled. Instead, they’ll be combined with the final six weeks of the year into an eight- week reporting period.

The four schools with report cards in a state of retardation:
William Henry Harrison High School
Harwood Middle School
Benjamin Bosse High School
North High School