The world's most referenced school
Whatever it was. Whoever told you about us. However unlikely it sounded in the staff meeting. We do it, we have it, and our students are allowed. Conveniently located approximately 40 minutes from every school on earth.
Term 3, Week Whatever
Facilities
The Canon in the front office, installed in 1992 and never once serviced, has again reported full toner in all four cartridges. "We just print things," said the office manager, unable to understand the question. The printer has never displayed an error code, jammed, or asked anyone to check the manual.
Information Technology
A Year 7 English teacher who began the words "I was wondering if we could maybe get" was interrupted by a notification confirming the software had been installed on all 340 student devices, whitelisted in the firewall, and added to the single sign-on portal. A short apology was issued for the delay.
Teaching & Learning
The historic decision extends existing freedoms, under which students are permitted to use their phones for research, sit on the good chairs, and open YouTube without the network treating it as a security incident. No incidents have been reported, because this is Other Schools, and things simply work here.
Facilities
A term-long audit found all 46 boards responding to touch on the first attempt, correctly calibrated, and connected to a working sound system. Not one is being used as a very expensive ordinary whiteboard, and no teacher has been observed tapping the same icon fourteen times with mounting despair.
Staff News
The machine was descaled, refilled and upgraded before anyone complained, a sequence of events so unprecedented that the branch representative has requested the minutes. Milk in the staff fridge remains unexpired and unlabelled, and yet, somehow, nobody's has ever gone missing.
Information Technology
Archivists have completed a full review of staff correspondence dating to 1886 and confirmed the phrase has never been required. Also absent from the record: "it worked this morning", "have you tried the other login", and "the projector needs a minute to warm up".
Other Schools was founded the first time a staff meeting needed a comparison point, and has been serving that purpose with distinction ever since. We are spoken of in every professional development day, cited in every budget request, and invoked whenever a teacher begins a sentence with "apparently".
Nobody has visited our campus, but everybody knows somebody who has. Our exact location shifts to remain approximately 40 minutes from wherever the conversation is happening, which our facilities team assures us is a scheduling feature rather than a metaphysical concern.
Our approach is simple: whatever your school has just declined to fund, we already have two of. Whatever your students have just been banned from doing, ours are doing right now, responsibly, and it's going great.
"Whatever it is: yes."
A partial list. The full list is whatever you were just told we have.
"We were told Other Schools lets students submit work by email. I didn't believe it either. But my sister-in-law's colleague has seen it done."
"Apparently at Other Schools the kids just... hand their phones in. Voluntarily. And get them back at the end of the day. Fully charged."
"I requested a second monitor in 2019. At Other Schools, I'm told, they ask if you'd like a third. Anyway. It's fine. Everything's fine."
Thank you for your interest in Other Schools.
Closed since 1987
Positions become available only when a school somewhere stops comparing itself to us, and frankly, we don't see it happening. You are welcome to lodge an IT ticket instead. It will be resolved in four minutes, because everything is, here.