>Sure makes report cards easy. I store lots of memo field teacher comment stuff that way as well. See my reply to AS. I'm finding schools really are their own animal, given the transient nature of students and the quarter/trimester/semester issues. Kind of fun actually.
I worked with a system to store university grades. Once a colleague wanted to automate the class scheduling, you know, avoiding some conflicts, mainly: the same teacher teaching two courses at the same time, two courses being scheduled in the same room at the same time. I kind of gave up on that, as it seemed too complicated.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)