Schools also maintain paper records of attendance and other student files. In the past year, DoDEA placed more emphasis on safety and security systems such as fire alarms, bell systems and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. We've worked with the installation commanders and our facilities engineers to assess those systems. The few control units found to have Y2K risks will be replaced before the Year 2000, he added. Another area of emphasis is computer-based curricula.
Students use more than textbooks, notebook paper and No.
2 pencils in their studies now. Computers are fully integrated into many classrooms, and some classes, such as computer science, are entirely computer-driven. There's not a process I can think of that we're not depending on data flow and automation. That's just common sense, Chancellor said. Fortunately, a lot of school systems, such as student attendance, still start as paper records, he noted.