Plug and Pray
A book for the people quietly keeping school systems alive
Most school networks are not run by IT professionals.
They are run by teachers and staff who inherited systems they didn’t design and are expected to keep them working anyway.
Plug and Pray is written for them.
Plug and Pray documents what actually happens inside schools when responsibility outpaces training.
It’s for the science teacher who became “the IT person.”
For the administrator managing infrastructure by habit rather than design.
For anyone who spends their day resetting passwords, coaxing printers, and absorbing system failures so teaching can continue.
This is not a technical manual.
It’s a clear-eyed account of how fragile systems persist through individual effort, and the cost of relying on goodwill instead of structure.
The book draws on lived experience running real school networks under real constraints, and gives language to a role that is rarely acknowledged but widely relied upon.
What this book is
- Observational, not theoretical
- Grounded in schools, not vendor rhetoric
- Written in plain language
- Focused on responsibility, not blame
What this book is not
- A certification guide
- A how-to manual
- A product pitch