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I urge everyone to complain --
Scholastic has obviously made drastic decisions without worrying about the people 
who support them --

in fact for those of you who have gone to the enterprise version --
it does a lousy job of supporting a school wide program --
it looks like they are trying to mnake this a "clone" of another product...

Many of the features that we have had for years are no longer availale in the 
Enterprise version -- but Scholastic said they would be back --
and I as yet - have not seen them..

Every time a new release is sent out - there is another problem --
we found another one -- and then discovered the patch to fix that problem created 
another problem.


Since there is a new team handling RC/SRI -- quality appears to be gone....

I have voiced these opinions to Scholastic over and over again....

to no avail....



Paula Yohe
Director Of Technology/Library Media Center
Dillon School District Two
405 West Washington Street
Dillon, SC 29536
Phone: 843-841-3604 Fax:843-774-1214
paula_yohe@yahoo.com


--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Pete Madden <peteweihui@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: Pete Madden <peteweihui@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: [LM_NET] TARGET: MUST READ for Reading Counts Users
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 12:28 PM
> Dear Librarians,
> (As mentioned in a recent post) If you are using RC version
> 3.3 or lower
> (non-Enterprise versions) you will not be able to purchase
> quiz disks
> after November. Reading Counts wants us to migrate to their
> Enterprise
> Edition, this school year.
> 
> My 20 RC workstations running MAC OS 9.2 cannot run the
> Enterprise Edition
> (requires OS X). Reading Count's solution to this is to
> have our quiz
> database "hosted" by them via the Internet and
> charge me a per student fee
> to do so. In other words, when students take a quiz, they
> would take it over
> the Internet and our report data would housed there as
> well.
> 
> As of this morning, they could not tell me the browser
> version needed to
> handle this connection to their server (RC tech support is
> not aware of the
> proposed change), but I'm betting it's a browser
> that my OS 9.2 can't run.
> 
> I'm very frustrated by Scholastic's decision. I
> purchased RC 3.0 only two
> years ago and spent thousands of dollars on quizzes for a
> system that is
> now unsustainable after November. Their effort to
> communicate these changes
> to us has been inadequate; I learned of these changes on
> LM_Net, in spite of
> just receiving a download disk in the mail last week that
> made no mention of
> this. To ask us to weather this change in the midst of the
> school year shows
> a serious lack of concern for the customer--the least they
> could do is
> continue to sell us quiz disks until May of '09 so we
> can work on upgrading
> over next summer.
> 
> So I guess these are my options for this school year:
> 
> 1. Don't add any more quizzes after November ( I have
> 2,400 now) and write
> the quizzes that I need for new releases
> 2. Buy 20 new work station computers and the  Enterprise
> Edition
> 3. Ask all of you who are in the same situation to band
> together to help me
> pressure SRC to postpone this change until the end of the
> 08/09 school year
> 
> I'm hoping # 3, with your help, will be the outcome. If
> you'd like to help
> me communicate this to Scholastic, please respond to this
> email.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Pete
> -- 
> Pete Madden
> Librarian, Centennial Middle School
> Portland, OR
> peteweihui@gmail.com
> 
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