My initial impression of the infinite Campus requirement and message by Asst Super Gothard, and subsequent intervention by MTI, as the article seems to indicate, is a bit bothersome to me.

The way I read this brief report, Gothard imposed the rule, but didn't take into account the unreasonable burden it would place on special ed teachers, so after intervention by MTI, Gothard modified the rule for those teachers. Did I read this right?

Here is the bit that is bothersome to me. Shouldn't management be required to set rules that are correct and appropriately take into account, in this case, the differing circumstances of special ed teachers than regular teachers? I'm assuming, of course, that the rule as modified is now "more correct" than the initial rule.

MTI should not be required to do management's job, and teachers should not have to go to their union to ensure management makes the correct decisions. Seems to me, that management should actually know their business and know what their staff needs are so that the decisions management makes are the correct ones. This story indicates to me that, at least in this case, there is no mechanism in place within MMSD itself that allows or requires the appropriate level of communication between management and staff so that MMSD both supports the staff that do the work and supports MMSD responsibility to the students and community.