FOLLOWUP: Highline Public Schools closed again Tuesday

Thanks for the tips. Highline Public Schools, the district immediately south of here, has announced its schools will remain closed for a second day tomorrow:

All schools will remain closed on Tuesday, September 10. All school activities, athletics and meetings are canceled. Central office will be open.

Our investigation into unauthorized activity on our technology systems is ongoing, and critical systems are still offline.

The message sent to Highline staffers, as forwarded to us, also says “We have not seen evidence of staff, family, or student information compromised.” The district so far is not commenting on the nature of the “unauthorized activity,” first disclosed on Sunday afternoon.

Admiral-2009 September 9, 2024 (5:12 pm)

How is the HSD going to deal with the competitive disadvantage this is causing due to missed practices, especially team sports?

Colby September 9, 2024 (7:56 pm)

That’s a really weird thing to be concerned about. How about missed days of learning.
- bill September 9, 2024 (10:37 pm)
  
  Actually it’s quite a sensible concern. The highest paid public employee in almost all states is a college sports director or coach, not a physics professor. Career goals, man, career goals.
  - Colby September 10, 2024 (2:28 pm)
    
    I think you are confusing sports practice vs. academics.

RX September 9, 2024 (7:16 pm)

Since their previous announcement mentioned that they’re working with “federal partners”, my money is (purely speculatively) on a ransomware attack that they’re ill equipped to handle and trying to avoid announcing, much like the library recently experienced. I wouldn’t be surprised if this takes a bit of time to resolve.

Kyle September 9, 2024 (8:42 pm)

Agreed, they’re going to need an interim plan to open schools while systems recover. Hopefully quickly.

Admiral-2009 September 9, 2024 (10:08 pm)

Colby – missed days of school can be made up, missing team sport practices cannot be especially when competing with other teams not being handicapped with missing practice.

k September 10, 2024 (3:40 pm)

But is losing a game due to missing a practice really more of a crisis than missing a week of reading, math, science, etc.? If the players are that bad that missing one practice is going to make them lose all season, they probably weren’t going to be paying for college with athletic scholarships anyway.

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