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Moving from a sys admin position at an MSP to a K12 sys admin position this coming Monday. I will be working alongside a network admin, I.T director and 5-6 helpdesk staff, there are 5 locations in the district and ~2000 people between staff and students. Any words of wisdom or advice for a K12 specific environment or in general moving away from an MSP?

Thank you in advance!

I am fairly fresh in my role (2 years here, 3 years elsewhere), but when I see what I could be earning in the private sector, my mind starts to wonder. I have spent a little bit of time looking at posts in this subreddit with people asking what others do in their role and what their salary is. I am realizing more my role is unique and maybe I have it good and maybe I don't. I don't know. That's why I am here.

I currently work at a public charter high school (200 students) that focuses on technology (I actually graduated from the school back in the day). I am on contract for 210 days and fulfill two roles here: teacher (187 days) and sysadmin (33 days).

On the teaching side, I teach IT fundamentals to fresh, server administration and network+ prep to juniors, and security+ and linux+. I do enjoy that part of my job, but I have had a lot of work outside school to do to get certified. I have to also deal with all the stresses of teaching, but thankfully my classes are generally less than 10 students.

On the IT side, the nice part is that our school is completely separate from the rest of the district, so I am the sole IT admin and decision-maker (so I'm an IT director then? haha). In terms of responsibility, it is great. I still have to take major decisions to the admin staff, but they generally always follow my recommendation. I am the expert. I make decisions. I own it. Also, I have been able to do some pretty awesome stuff like move everything to Intune/AAD. Heck, I just wrapped up a project moving our DHCP failover/secondary DNS to an Azure VM. It's very satisfying.

In terms of salary, I am at $69K. Pay will go up about $5-6K next year due to state budget surplus. While the pay is good and I love having about 11 weeks off each year, balancing the teaching and sysadmin responsibilities can be very stressful at times and it costs nearly $1K a month to insure my wife and 3 kids. I often longing look at other jobs I could take and easily make six figures, but then I am reminded of my 3-minute commute, time off, job security, and decision-making power and ground myself. And then there is the fact I can retire with a full pension in 27 years.

From your perspective, am I absolutely crazy for thinking about leaving something so good? I'm conflicted and go back and forth frequently.

Edit: I am located in Idaho.

to be honest, i (21F) constantly think about how awful my experience was every single day. i graduated from high school almost 3 years ago now and i still think about my time in k12 every day. i honestly think that it has exhausted me so much that there is still a burnout that still affects me to this day.

i’d constantly struggle to make friends. if i did make friends, i almost always would end up not wanting to be friends with them for good reason (i.e., used me, made me uncomfortable, was just an asshole, etc.) i was, and still am, afraid to talk to authority because of the way i was treated by adults throughout my entire education. in general, i was miserable.

in elementary school everybody knew i was autistic because i was in the special education class. i didn’t really have any friends in my special education class because the other all-male students didn’t want to talk to me because i’m a girl. later, i was integrated into the standard kindergarten class with an aid. my trigger response to any kind of stress results in me crying, so i was labeled a crybaby by others. i am pretty sure that at some point, some instructors, directly or indirectly, taught the kids to interact with me like walking on eggshells (and probably any other autistic kid for that matter). throughout the entire time in elementary school, i was infantilized by other students. sometimes i’d have “stans” who would attack an individual or group for inflicting minor negative actions against me, even if i told them not to. it was bizarre.

in middle and high school, i was depressed, miserable, and felt confined every day. throughout 9-11 grade, i’d cry every first day of school. i was always so tired after school that i did nothing for hours after. i never had the energy to do extracurriculars or clubs where i could have possibly made friends. in fact, i wrote so much about how miserable my experience was during that period of my life that i ended up scrapping it because it was probably too long. during my last two years of high school, i’d get unwanted, uncomfortable, just overall awful interactions with cishet men who liked me to the point where i was became uncomfortable interacting with men for a while. (maybe i’ll post it if enough people say they’re interested).

i often think back to this time in my life and i get so angry. i get so angry at how peers treated me like shit. i get even angrier how awful most of these adults in my life treated me, especially if they were assigne

I am a teacher who is moving to a state with a poor education system next year and am taking the opportunity to consider other options. I love the kids but I also LOVE creating interactive, engaging, and downright pretty digital resources for my classes (high school level history).

That said, I’m not ready to jump into the corporate sector. I’d like to stay within the realm of social studies education and my dream job outside of teaching would be spending my day learning design skills and creating interesting online materials to allow students to get engaged with history in cool interactive ways. I don’t care to analyze data but I love the actual execution and creation.

Is that curriculum development? Is that ID? eLearning? Or are you like “no, brkfsttco, that’s a teacher making lesson plans.” Or is a dream that doesn’t actually exist?

What are they like? I want to hear from people who are working there currently. What's the curriculum like? What's the pay like? Could it be a full-time job? The glass door reviews are pretty positive for elevate k12 - less so for Stride.

Thanks!

Imagine kashin koji and delta has attacked Konoha and Naruto and sasuke are not in village . K12 has to fight kashin koji and delta . What will happen

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I was going to purchase a pair of QSC K12.2 speakers along with a KS212C sub however just found out that they are long on back order and not even taking orders now. My question is…what is a comparable setup from JBL/Yamaha/ or other brands? Looking for something for a small hall. The reason I was interested in the QSC’s was because I rented them for a show recently and loved the clarity. Looking to spend around 800-1000 per speaker and around 1600-1700 for the sub.

Hi!

I run a program at the school where I work in which we make filmic shorts, a regular news style series (structured like the daily show), and we record/livestream all of the school events/performances. There is a separate, formal "film" program, but they do their own thing.

We currently shoot on a Sony PXW-Z150 (which I really love, and is easy for the kids to use), I also sometimes bring in my own Canon 6D and/or BMPCC 6K (OG) to use, and depending on the project, we borrow some other basic camcorder(s) from other departments. Given the pandemic, we're now officially shooting a lot of events (theater, music, dance performances in particular) using a 3-camera setup and our new Atem Mini Pro. I'm totally obsessed with this switcher, btw, it's crazy fun to use!

I've been given the go-ahead to make recommendations for new cameras so we can have things that match (hooray!). I was kind of thinking about the black magic studio cameras, since I really love the control you have from the Atem Mini, but we do a lot more than just stream so maybe BMPCCs are the way to go? That said, one of the other teachers who frequently works with us has said the camcorder profile is the best way to go, since we sometimes have younger kids operating these (especially for live events) and the lack of solid auto-focus or even just being able to throw it on full auto and not be concerned about anything is a real factor. So maybe I want camcorders? And if so, I guess I should be looking for something that is easy to match to the Sony PXW-Z150 (we certainly won't be given the budget to just buy 2 more of those!).

Help me out, what do you suggest? Camcorders? Studio Cams? DSLR style bodies?

Quick recap: I want to be able to be flexible for "filmic" work, but that's admittedly the minority of what these get used for, so primary use case is livestream into an Atem Mini Pro. Some users understand camera mechanics, can swap lenses, etc, others really need to just be able to pick it up and run it on full auto.

Thank you for your advice!

I listened to k12 when I was still not that attached to melanie and her music so I was kinda like meh and also I had terrible music tastes back then so I didn't appreciate her artistry, creative writing and her unique sounds, The same case with the film

Overtime It grew on me A LOT like i sung this shit while doing everything, and the movie became more amazing the more I watch it and the more I love melanie and what she does. Altho I didn't relate to the songs at all cuz Im a kid who lives under a rock and does not experience much pain and trauma lmao. But the fact that she explore darker themes in the songs and film is admirable

BUT...overtime I got bored of it, I mean It's normal to get bored of smth but I got bored of it relatively quick, mostly sonically and It feels illegal cuz now that Im a big fan I feel obligated to love all of her work cuz lets be honest mel has a reputation of not having a bad song or maybe this is what the fandom keeps telling me so I kinda feel bad when I don't like some of her music anymore :((

I'm trying my best to get back the hype that I lost with K12 and gladly it's coming back ! For me Afterschool has more uniqueness to it that's why it sticks with me longer

Is anyone experiencing the same thing?

We are being pressured by our insurance provider to implement 2FA for our staff gmail accounts by the end of the year. I understand why - but we have been avoiding the fight from staff during these stressful times.

With that being said…

Can anyone direct us to best practices for implementation of this? What works? What didn’t? Any one have any guides on how to get this off the ground w Google Admin Console?

Thanks to all and happy Friday! Hope you have a great weekend!

Hello! This is my first post. I work in "Desktop and Systems Support" at a K12 Deaf school, and we have 2 new wireless document cameras. I noticed that, when the computer is hardwired, the performance of the camera is far better (not perfect) than when the computer is on the network via Wifi.

Does anyone have any sense as to what's going on? Camera is a Lumens DC-W80, DHCP, auto channel...I'd love to hear if there is a best practice for something like this.

P.S. I didn't post this in K12sysadmin because I don't think there's a specific "K12" application here.

What fingers am I supposed to use to hit the "special keys":

1. left and right ctrl;
2. left and right alt;
3. super key;
4. fn1, fn2.

Something tells me that the answer is always pinky. But isn't it tedious to have to activate almost all the "second functions" with the right hand?

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apparently theres' way more people that like this school than i thought - most of the people that love this school are 10-12th graders (basically grades above my own) or parents (or well, that's what i see. obviously there's people around or below my grade that likes this... school). so i almost always felt so weird disliking this school when so many people was praising it, but now because i hate this school so much i don't even care how many people like this school - i'm still gonna rant.

Honestly this school. This. School.

This school truly taught me to hate Math, which is so funny because I remember it being my favorite subject. I can't just put into words how much this school has been so troubling and so struggling for me. The constant work being brought out - especially the writing assignments... and i literally love writing, so you'd think i wouldn't have trouble with writing assignments... there was so many students struggling and getting low grades by the sudden appearance of tons of homework (this sudden appearance happened after a break) that my counselor suggested that student work should be cut down at a meeting (my counselor told me this when i joined a session with her and was upset of the constant work).

Going through the sudden appearance of work is even worse when knowing that work can be above your grade - and sometimes teachers don't bother wording questions greatly, then just send a feedback for WORK YOU WORKED HOURS OR SEVERAL MINUTES ON, saying that YOU DID NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION. One time my French teacher said "this [french homework] is college work" OH MY LORD. WHY. THAT JUST STRESSED ME EVEN MORE.

How many times I've almost gotten a mental breakdown or had breakdown or felt so exhausted and out of it just because of this school is just, really something. How many times that i've struggled with my grades, despite all of my life I was a A-B student (only getting a C ONE TIME) before I went to this school, is just so telling.

I recognize this school, like any other online school, could be well for anyone struggling with social anxiety. this school could be helpful for anyone that gain energy or motivation on homework, and won't get burned out so easily. I've struggled with some anxiety in my life and even sometimes gained energy on finding answer and being correct. This school did not help.

It only made me more anxious, more depressed, more burned out, more lack of motivation - to the point of outside of sch

Hi Admins,

Today I had a long chat with a software developer. He suggested looking into careers related to cloud computing, preferably AWS since he didn't think K12 Admin was a good option for a permanent job.

So, what are a good career path for k12 Admins?

Thanks

Is there any mod for this car? I’ve there searched a lot and I didn’t find any link to download the mod? Does anyone have it?

I'm in the process of researching Chromebooks for the 2022-2023 school year. Typically we've used 2-in-1 devices in the past and have purchased the Dell 3100, Gen 1 and 2 of the Lenovo 500e, and the Asus Flip C213. We've also used Acer and Samsung.

Cost, durability, and ease of repair are our top considerations when looking to buy new units.

What do you recommend?

Anybody in k12!