I believe I have now visited over 1500 primary schools in the last decade and the problems you outline above I have seen more times that I care to remember. In fact, there are times when I think it is the norm rather than the exception!

At Classroom Monitor, we’ve moved the vast majority of our internla infrastructure onto the cloud and are planning on moving the rest over the summer. Our cloud partner is beginning to approach primary (and secondary) schools now, this isn’t really in my field of teacher MIS/ assessment/ management tools, but I’d be interested to hear your thoughts (or others) on the ‘cloud’ in education.
Chris
@chrisscarth
PS – I wonder if the phrase ‘cloud’ will soon become as annoying as ’21st century learning’ which I completely agree makes my skin crawl!