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Ever since I helped setup Lansingschools.org first websever in 1998, I have been urging the District to post School Closings on its website in a timely fashion. It is tiring to have to wait thru 20-30mins of commercials on commercial radio, only to get the annoucement barely 5 mins before you have to wake up the kids to go to school. Since then, Lansing Schools has even stopped making annoucements on non-commercial radio, such as WSKG.

Initially the idea was cancelled by Andrea Price whom was extremely techno-phobic, saying "it can not be done securely". Since then that arguement has prevailed. Yet, if the district really has such low-confidence in the security of webserver, then it probably does not belong on the Internet at all. Further, radio stations often get thier information wrong, or wrong by ommission (eg: WSKG). It would be great to have someplace that was more 'authoritative'.

As you are undoubtly aware, postings can be securely managed (eg: lansingstar.com). Techno-phobic responses to this issue are inappropriate.

Perhaps The Star could help raise attention to this community issue? Perhaps it could even help host a page if the Schools can't pull it off?

I have been asking for this now for 7 years, ... the district Staff and Adminstrators will no longer even reply to my inquiries on the matter. After my youngest graduates next year, I suppose it won't matter. This seem like an awful way to handle the issue.

Editor's Note:  The Lansing Star is handling school closings, but has hit what we hope is a minor bump in getting the information from the school district.  When there is a closing or other important alert, it is shown in red just under the top banner advertisement on the front page.  Like Mr. Eckstrom, we hope to get school closing alerts automated very soon.

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