Hope this isn't too off topic:<p>I've noticed increasingly in the past few years, news article headlines of this exact form: <something good>. Then <something bad>. Personally it often feels like clickbait to the point that the title feels like a disservice to the actual content.<p>But what I'm interested in is - is this a particular person's style of writing? Or is it actually a trend?
On a much smaller scale, a bad school app experience is the main reason why I built an Alexa app for anyone in our district to easily ask Alexa for the lunch menu daily <a href="https://github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu/</a><p>Pretty common for school district apps to feel antiquated and hard to use. Definitely a disruptible space.
In the USA it’s a hot issue right now whether the schools work <i>for</i> the parents, or whether the schools have autonomy from parents.<p>I read articles like this (and others) and I feel we’ve swayed too far into the “schools are autonomous” side of things. I want it to swing back.
For those interested in some of the challenges facing schools and the attempts to improve them, I found this documentary very interesting: <i>Waiting for Superman</i>. <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/waiting_for_superman" rel="nofollow">https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/waiting_for_superman</a><p>And on school choice see Milton Friedman: <a href="https://youtu.be/SEZnis9-9Gc" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/SEZnis9-9Gc</a>
<i>“We do not have open APIs, so they have made their own solution,” Hélène Mossberg, the deputy head of digitization and IT at the city’s education division,</i><p>She stated the problem very succinctly, but didn't realize that it's the problem.
For stories like this, 99% of the time it’s a government institution. That’s because the primary purpose of these is to leech money off people to provide an inferior service.<p>This happens because the worse the service the more money they get. “We need more funding” is their common cry but the marginal dollar provides zero or negative value as even more corrupt leeches flock to the system to extract all excess dollars.