The manual way
Paper, spreadsheets and four different books
Most of this work is already being done. It is being done in places that do not talk to each other, and every question costs somebody an afternoon.
- A pupil's record lives in a file, a register and somebody's phone
- Fees are reconciled by hand, and the receipt book is the only copy
- Marks are collected on paper, then typed again to make a bulletin
- Parents ring the office because there is nowhere else to ask
The same work, done three times over.