[SLL] Arrgh, LWSD requires IE to access web site...

[Ken Meyer]

Glenn --

Not to defend the indefensible position of the LWSD, but what makes you
think that unfunded mandates are unconstitutional?  They happen all the
time, but from federal to state and state to municipality.  One would think
that the push-back would be more than strident complaining if there were
relief to be had in the constructs of the Founding Fathers.

Ken Meyer


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Subject: Re: [SLL] Arrgh,Lake Washington School District requires IE to
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:35:17AM -0700, Ski Kacoroski wrote:

><soapbox on>
>My kids attend LWSD and they have this neat new website so I
>can see the attendance information online -- NOT!  According to them you
>have to run IE.  I have asked them politely for a workaround, but it
>really burns me that in this day and age, people still create IE only
>web sites.
></soapbox off>

If you were a state and LWSD were FedGov, that would be unconstitutional.
It's called an "unfunded mandate."

What I translate their lame excuse as is "So the parents could be stupid."

I wonder what the lawyer who spoke to us at GSLUG about SCO the other
Saturday would have to say about this.

-- Glenn