If I want to put up a nice little site for me then Google sites is great. I did exactly that. I used it to show some of my students how to create a site. Most of them weren't all that interested because they have Face Book or whatever.
For a school it is seriously lame. I think the limit is 11 meg.
On the other hand very few of the teachers I know want anything what so ever to do with Joomla. It is hard to get people to invest the time/work and unless you are good you are not going to be able to be all that flexible. You are pretty much stuck with the template you are given.
There are much easier software packages to work with. Heck Front Page beats the crape out of Joomla for most users and it's discontinued.
Many sites have their own software and for a modest fee or even free for some sites as long as your site is small you can use their software.
What users want is something a lot more like MS office where they get to just build the thing and see it as they go.
What they don't won't to deal with is a back end like Joomla.
It works but you need to know a lot and you need to be willing to invest a lot of your time. Will your skills transfer to something else? I doubt it.
One of the reasons I'm working on our school board site is I see the skills I already have with Joomla and the skills I will gain as being nothing the younger teachers will need to know.
We now have two sites. One on Joomla and one on Front Page and both are being run by senior citizens.
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