You say that now, before you know what the administrative backend looks like. ;) Does it communicate anything if I tell you that the nickname the schools directory administrative team gave themselves on LJ was "Team Leaky Canoe"? (As in: no matter how fast you bail it out, it keeps sinking anyway...)

The problem was never a lack of person-hours, really -- there are always people willing to pick up the task if you crowdsource it -- but the amount of research it entails, to verify that schools exist/figure out the real name of the school/etc. (Things like having twenty entries for the same school, with something like, "St Mark's", "Saint Mark's", "Saint Mark's Academy", "St. Marks", etc, etc, ad nauseam.) Not to mention having to become an expert in the geography and regional subdivisions (states/territories/regions/etc) of pretty much every country the site has users from, in order to standardize names and locations. It's pretty gnarly. The idea we have to fix it up involves removing a lot of the need for oversight.