Ugh, on the rare occasion when my boys' school contacts me to do something, like consent to them taking part in a field trip, I'm usually presented with some hokey proprietary webservice from a 'plucky' NZ company. It's invariably hosted in the US, behind CloudFlare, with endless Google, Facebook, and other iffy offshore dependencies (looking at my uMatrix extension). Why can't they just be local, libre solutions funded by the Ministry of Ed, hosted by some NZ company here?