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New app was supposed to revolutionize school busing in Boston, but it made it worse and now councilors, parents want answers (www.universalhub.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

This reminds me of when Stockholm launched the school platform system, a system that would ease and centralize access to school resources, but after spending a billion SEK it was shit, so a group of parents took the matter into their own hands and built a new app that interacted with the API calls of the system, the new app was great, so the city called the police on the parent group, but the police investigation showed that the parents app only used the information the city had published themselves, nothing illegal had taken place.

Then the city changed gears and worked with the group of parents.

Here is a summary:

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1387097-their-school-app-didnt-work-so-they-built-an-open-source-alternative-then-the-schools-called-the-cops/