Every student, one record, typed once

Most school software was written for countries with family surnames, and Ethiopian schools pay for that every day: a system with a mandatory "last name" field forces the father's name into the wrong box, breaks alphabetical order, and makes half the register unfindable. Temari's student record stores the student's own name, the father's name, the grandfather's name and the mother's name as separate first-class fields, in Ethiopic or Latin spelling.

Search works the way the school office actually asks for a child: any word of the full name, in any order, with partial matches. "Abdi Gemeda" finds Abdi Fikre Gemeda even though no single field contains both words. Every student also carries a permanent Temari ID (like TMR-24107) printed on their ID card, so a registrar can pull a file from a queue of parents in seconds without spelling debates.

National identity is handled with care: where a family provides a Fayda digital ID, the number is stored hashed. That is enough to stop duplicate registrations and to support verification later, and the school database never holds a raw national ID it would then have to protect.

A student record is also the anchor for the enrollment lifecycle. Each school year, the student holds one enrollment per year: their grade, section, program and status. New enrollments can be gated on the registration fee, so a child is not sitting in a class list the office thinks is unpaid; payment or an approved scholarship activates the seat automatically.

Large intakes get tools instead of index cards: bulk section assignment balances hundreds of new students across parallel sections by size, with the registrar overriding freely before committing. At year end, the promotion board records a decision per child (promoted, repeated, transferred out) and the rollover executes those decisions into next year's enrollments one student at a time, so a failure on row 312 never corrupts rows 1 to 311.

Because every mark, absence, invoice and document hangs off the student rather than the section, all of this movement is safe. A student moved from 7B to 7C keeps every score already earned; the system carries the marks into the receiving class's sheets automatically.

An Ethiopian household is rarely one parent with one phone. Temari models guardianship as explicit links: a student can have a mother, a father, an uncle who pays fees and a grandmother who collects report cards, each with their own account and their own permissions. Per link, the school controls who may see grades, who may see attendance, and who may pay. A non-custodial relative can pay fees without reading report cards, if that is what the family arranged.

The privacy boundary is built into the structure, so nobody has to remember to switch it on. Staff see students of their own school and branch only, within their role; a teacher sees their own classes. Parents reach their children through a separate family portal that physically cannot query other students. When a student transfers to another school on Temari, the former school keeps a frozen archive of its own era, and never sees a single record the new school adds afterwards.

Deleting is equally careful: student records with history are deactivated and archived rather than destroyed, because a transfer certificate request can arrive years later, and a school must be able to answer it.