On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Gregor Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Tom and the others, > this sounds nice... Let me write a few lines... > > Tom Hoffman schrieb: >> Demographics >> ------------ >> >> 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. > > 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 _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
