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65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: TimS 09 April 2013 01:59:37AM 1 point [-]

In practice, there are substantial privacy law issues, although those can be gotten around if the district is clever.

More importantly, collecting, collating, and ensuring coder reliability is expensive. What you called "marginal effort" is quite difficult for just about any large bureaucracy.

Comment author: atucker 09 April 2013 03:11:36AM -1 points [-]

Marginal effort within the bounds of a consulting agency offering a service "tailored" to each school district.