Wouldn't voting be more practical? That's what we do in Canada.

It's worth noting that not only the *government* loses their jobs, but the *opposition* does as well. So it forces everyone to act like adults.

2/ Administrators and teachers didn’t choose the old system. They inherited it.

4/ So we now have 10,000 pieces of data for each teacher. Or HALF A MILLION pieces of data in a typical school.

If you are serious about competency-based education, you need a system to manage all that. Ad-hoc systems can't cut it.

3/ But it gets worse. Each of those competencies had 5 success criteria. That's 5000 pieces of evidence for the teacher to juggle. And if the kids ask a few questions, that's another 5000 message threads.

2/ Let's suppose each teacher is teaching 5 classes -- either 5 subject for elem, or 5 rotary classes in middle/high. Each class has 20 kids.

Now let's suppose that each class has 10 competencies we want the kids to learn. That's 1000 competencies for the teacher to manage.

4/ A good record-of-learning system displays info when & where it is needed, and can record not only marks but also the critical conversations and evidence needed to triangulate student progress.

And without such a system? The kids who need the most help are the ones falling through the cracks.

3/ It's a never-ending treadmill for the student and their family.

And to make it even worse, guess what? It turns out that the very students with these needs are the ones most likely to be in precarious living situations and more transient.

2/ Because all of the knowledge about the individualization is carried around in people's brains and postit notes and random spreadsheets. And that in turn means that when a student moves to a new class/teacher/school all of that knowledge is lost.

3/ If we can provide a tool that helps the teacher SEE and ACT, we're doing our job right.