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To: Google For Education Team
STOP THE G-SUITE ENTERPRISE COST INCREASE & EXAM CHANGES
The members of the New York Technology Educators Network, (comprised of technology leaders in the Lower Hudson Valley of New York) ask all G-Suite educational institutions, administrators, and teachers and to support this petition:
Please stop the Google for Education Team from making insensitive and short-sighted changes that affect the school districts that heavily rely on them.
1. Stop the increase of Google Enterprise!
Google for Education has decided to double the cost of the G-Suite enterprise by the end of October. Taking such action during a global pandemic COVID-19 is insensitive to educational institutions' needs everywhere during a very vulnerable time. It's also contrary to Google's collaborative nature many of us technology leaders have espoused our districts.
2. Do not retire the Google Level 1 & 2 Proficiency exams!
Additionally, Google has just announced that the Certification Exams are being retired at the end of December. Once again, technology leaders worldwide have invested in Level 1, Level 2 training exams. We have spent thousands with slender pockets getting teachers to take these exams, and now they will be obsolete? We must now tell our teachers that all the work they have done to obtain them will mean nothing after December, but wait, now there are new badges? By all means, add to your badges or update the outdated tests, but do not nullify all the work and good-faith placed in the former exams.
Please stop the Google for Education Team from making insensitive and short-sighted changes that affect the school districts that heavily rely on them.
1. Stop the increase of Google Enterprise!
Google for Education has decided to double the cost of the G-Suite enterprise by the end of October. Taking such action during a global pandemic COVID-19 is insensitive to educational institutions' needs everywhere during a very vulnerable time. It's also contrary to Google's collaborative nature many of us technology leaders have espoused our districts.
2. Do not retire the Google Level 1 & 2 Proficiency exams!
Additionally, Google has just announced that the Certification Exams are being retired at the end of December. Once again, technology leaders worldwide have invested in Level 1, Level 2 training exams. We have spent thousands with slender pockets getting teachers to take these exams, and now they will be obsolete? We must now tell our teachers that all the work they have done to obtain them will mean nothing after December, but wait, now there are new badges? By all means, add to your badges or update the outdated tests, but do not nullify all the work and good-faith placed in the former exams.
Why is this important?
Google for Education team is being incredibly short-sighted in some of its actions and is not taking into consideration the impact these decisions will have on the school districts and technology leaders that advocated for them world-wide. One of the primary concerns that Technology leaders had before leaping to the Google band-wagon is that Google would eventually rip out the proverbial rug and require a G-Suite Edu fee. While that has not happened yet, these most recent actions on Google's part undermine our confidence in that promise.
1. Now is not the time to change pricing on a vital tool that many educational institutions rushed purchase, and certainly not at such a drastic cost. We are in a global pandemic. Be respectful, and don't price gouge.
2. Now is not the time to invalidate the work that many educational institutions strived for in proficiency by pushing teachers to obtain Level 1 and Level 2 and have spent thousands on.
1. Now is not the time to change pricing on a vital tool that many educational institutions rushed purchase, and certainly not at such a drastic cost. We are in a global pandemic. Be respectful, and don't price gouge.
2. Now is not the time to invalidate the work that many educational institutions strived for in proficiency by pushing teachers to obtain Level 1 and Level 2 and have spent thousands on.