Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.
On the other hand, look at the massive amounts of high-quality data in something like Open Streetmap. It should be possible to do this.
They existed, they just didn't get adopted really. E.g. https://moodle.org/
There's so many ways of justifying not open source. Heck it's so easy to create FUD around open source projects.
Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.