Writeacher

Good post. I've heard others in the area say that they do not care to spend upwards of $150 million to re-build Klein High at this time, but they are entertaining the idea of a "Berry Center" type stadium to be built with bond money.

BTW, I drove out to Portofino Center and checked out the new Woodlands area stadium about a month ago. The huge building being built next door to the football stadium is not a basketball stadium, but a natatorium instead. The Woodlands area has a very big following when it comes to swimming, I would imagine.

But, yeah, if the bond committee doesn't pull the Klein High re-build out of the proposal, I will vote no to the whole thing.

I agree. The original plan looks OK, but if they put this revised plan on a ballot, I'll be voting no and encouraging everyone I know to do the same. The overcrowding at Klein Oak HS and Klein Collins HS are not addressed (adequately or at all!) in the revised plan. Do the board and central administration think they have only one high school that really matters in the whole district?

And, as someone else said above, in this economy, why is this board asking for money that won't solve the problems they already have, now or in the future. Check out the Overcrowding section at http://www.kleinforall.com.

Also - the whole idea of putting laptops in the hands of all high school students is awful. The laptops themselves will end up being the least of their problems. Think of all the firewall and filter problems, the hardware issues that will arise in the central server, the parents who will have to pay for repairs that aren't always caused by their own student(s), and on and on. These two articles are very interesting and should be read closely by all decision makers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/educatio...amp;oref=slogin

and

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0803271_pf.html

It would be much better to make data available to parents by means of the data management program (attendance, grades, etc.) which the district already has. I think it's called Chancery. This would be similar to the program(s) that Cy-Fair ISD, Humble ISD, Tomball ISD, and Spring ISD have -- enabling parents to keep better track of their children's/students' attendance and grades as often as they wish instead of having to wait around for progress reports and report cards.

Passing the bond as currently revised would make as much sense as our taxes that go to METRO to pay for buses and trains we cannot make use of.

I'll be voting NO!

bond issue discussed in Chronicle story today

bond issue being discussed on bloghouston.net also

I have already written to bond08@kleinisd.net, Dr. Cain, and all board members that I will be voting NO on this bond proposal unless the district goes back to the original proposal - building high schools #5 and #6 and a major remodel (not a raze and rebuild) of Klein High School. I know many others who are writing emails stating the same thing.

We'll need to watch this thing closely!