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I work in K-12 EdTech and this hurts to read. Every sprint spent working on a "check the box feature" that administrators want to see is time not spent improving the effectiveness and usability of the product for teachers and students. Worse, sometimes the features or changes administrators think they want actively work against the interests of the users.

Edit: And god forbid you end up working on a core curriculum product that needs to be reviewed by each state's board of education. In that case you end up building a product that appeals to state-level bureaucrats, just to get get the privilege of selling to administrators, with little thought left for the actual students.