I guess what surprises me the most is that it’s even legal for schools to outsource the core of what they do to some random tech company.
Either way, they were under no obligation to adopt this garbage technology regardless of whether it’s available, so this is 110% on them.
The alternative would be that each school develop their own platform for this, which also isn't very good use of their time and money?
Um. This is the forum for an industry that outsourced its entire core of what they do to Microsoft (GitHub).
I’m sorry… is your view here that you can’t believe it is legal for a school to purchase software or pay someone to host software for them?
You are aware that you are posting on Hacker News, a forum for people who make their living selling software and the expertise to host it?