Agreed - but it's not gonna happen. Heck, once you are in any position of authority in the public sector, the next exercise is a constant striving to make sure you can't get fired for any reason. Period. This incident is about making sure the school and police can't even get criticized (getting criticized for over-reacting doesn't count). This reads like a classic case of CYA.

What is lacking here is leadership. As usual, the person with the least protection/power pays the price for that lack.

agreed. Everyone making shit up to cover their asses. Bureaucracy at work.

Right. That always works so well for the masses

and all to the benefit of *men*. It has to do about who is currently in power, and how to best maintain that arrangement. Gender plays an important role world-wide. The west has (unwillingly) made more advancement, mostly due to WWII. Once the women got out into the workforce, that genie wasn't going back into the bottle.

Things like "tradition" and "religion" are more about maintaining control than they are about anything else.To ignore that observable social behavior is folly

Except schools are notoriously cheap - no way they are going to all that trouble.

Why would that be required? Aren't the good people of Texas able to discipline their children such that they don't disrupt schools? /snark

This comes across as a standard GOP platform-plank.

That was my first thought as well

We *have* made up our minds. We aren't at war. We just haven't quite figured out how to get the congress to pull back some of this made-up "executive power". The systems of Checks-and-balances isn't functioning as well as we need.

CIA prosecuting an undeclared war at the direction of the President. That didn't work out too well for us the last time we tried it, now that I think of it.

I'm still unable to find a ultra book that 1/2 the price of an Air. I can find cheaper, but not 50% cheaper. I just looked at the Asus ZenbookPrime on Amazon and it's the same price. I can find something like hp's Folio 13 for $823. Again, cheaper, but not 50% cheaper than the closest-spec'd Air.

Focus on "Properly packing" the Servers and workstations. Properly packing in this context is retaliative, but I bet servers and workstations are more sensitive to getting banged around in the back of a u-haul than ip phones, printers, and wireless gear. Your network gear is probably in group 2 - more important than the "Phones, printers, and Wireless gear"

Like the cognitive dissonance displayed by a CTO who regularly witnesses unacceptable behavior in their organization/company but somehow thinks they aren't to blame?

Lay those folks off. You're the CTO, so you have some pull, I would think. If it's that much of an issue for you, get rid of them and bring folks whose work habits are more to your liking. You must understand they are going where you're leading them.

You have outlined 2 different issues:

1. Network security. Sounds like you got that one nailed down

2. You see subordinates spending too much time "goofing off". This is what seems to be really bugging you, and that isn't unusual for a technologist. I submit that you can *and should* do something about it - besides complaining about "where did the work ethic go?".

Corporate Leadership spends too much time whining about employee bad behavior, and not enough time addressing it directly through timely feedback. Hard conversations, difficult decisions and consequences are required to help people develop. If there is no consequence, then why wouldn't someone waste time at work? Leadership includes holding folks accountable. You aren't doing that. Just focusing on the technology isn't enough. Expecting people to hold themselves accountable to *your* expectations without any direct, regular, feedback (termination is certainly a form of feedback) isn't very effective in my experience.

You've solved the technology problems, but completely fail in leading your organization because you won't hold yourself and your organization to a high standard. They goof-off. You refuse to address that effectively. If people aren't your forte, either start improving your skills or hire people to work for you who are good at it.

You're a CTO, so you're a leader. So stop half-assing it and start leading those people (and yourself) where you want to go.

...and the executive branch will pitch a fit. We would benefit from congress actually asserting itself a bit more in this area. I'm not interested in living in a monarchy

Content owners are also part of "We, The People".

What does knowledge of "bible theory" (whatever that is) or being able to recite bible passages have to do with being Christian? It's not like being able to recite paragraphs from the PDR and knowledge of anatomy makes me a physician or pharmacist.

What passes for "Christian" in America today, probably isn't

Wrong. It takes an act of congress to declare war.