[schooltool] Demographics Rough Draft

[Tom Hoffman]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Gregor Jacobs <gregor.jacobs at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi Tom and the others,
> this sounds nice... Let me write a few lines...
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> Tom Hoffman schrieb:
>> Demographics
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>> ID #
>> Gender*
>> Birthday*
>> Ethnicity*
>> Native language
>> Place of birth
>> Citizenship
>> Photo
> Two suggestions for adding:
> 1. Date on which student entered this school
> 2. School the student was on before

Yes, those are two good ones.

> Thinking of my school, I think we needn't use Ethnicity. However, if
> there is a default value set (which can be set in the school's global
> settings) it will work fine. This could also apply to "native
> language" so that the most common one can be set as default, and the
> field reads then "Native language (if other then
> $DEFALUT_NATIVE_LANGUAGE)" or whatever that variable is.
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> At least, I think ethnicity does not need to be an obligatory setting,
> as there are countries which do not officially record such data and
> thus nobody would complain if this piece of information lacked.

In any event, just about everything will be optional, particularly
since SchoolTool has uses other than a full student information
system.

--Tom