You are right in saying that I’ve never dealt with school districts because as I’ve mentioned before in this thread I live in Australia where at least in my state we don’t have school districts and decisions like that are up to the individual school.
Having different keys is good but depending on how many different ones you’ve got then i would imagine it would start getting annoying, for our
PAC we have 3 levels of key; Master, PA1 and PA2. Master obviously unlocks everything in the building then PA1 is restricted to the main
theatre, classrooms, cupboards and doesn’t include anything like the cleaners cupboard then PA2 only allows access to the main
theatre and classrooms in the building and might allow access into some other area but takes away access from our BioBox/Booth and our tech cupboard.
While they may specialise in certain pieces of equipment in different PACs they should in theory still understand the overarching theory behind things that you can potentially get help with. When it comes to sound some who is able to mix on a different
console to what you have is still going to be able to mix on your
console they may just not quite know their way around and may need to sit down for an hour or so and just go through it to get to grips with it. Same sort of goes for lighting any technician is going to know the top
level non
console idea of what they are wanting to do, it’s probably a
bit harder when it comes to lighting because consoles have different syntax’s in which you use the
desk.