Ninety-nine million dollars is what is on Alton Frailey's bond money wish list for technology!  That is an outrageous amount of money on it's face.  However, what most of the parents and taxpayers do not understand is what "technology" expenditures are really all about.

I urge you to read this article by Michelle Malkin concerning intent. And don't say KISD is not "in to" Common Core.  Common Core probably started in Katy ISD with KMAC.  All one has to do is follow the bouncing bunny, so to speak. Common Core and CSCOPE have been outlawed in Texas, but who is going to monitor every classroom in Texas to make sure it's not there?  These curriculum/teacher management systems are insidious and pervasive. KISD HAS a curriculum/teacher management system, and it's no different than Common Core or CSCOPE. 

But Common Core aside, parents should be as concerned if not more concerned with the data mining of their children that will transpire. If you as a parent don't know what "data mining" is, you'd better find out!

Parents should also be concerned that digital learning is going to replace that good old teacher who has always been the rock of public education.  A computer CAN NOT teach your child what he needs to know. 

I certainly hope there was someone on the Bond Committee who was smart enough to ask just what all this money would buy and IF we need it.  I can't imagine that we do.  Ninety nine million dollars worth of technology cannot be explained as far as I am concerned!

I'm not sure Alton Frailey (he with a degree in teaching reading to first graders) is smart enough to know what he is doing, but parents should not trust him on this matter regardless of his naivete'. You do not want an iPad on every KISD kid's desk that's loaded with Microsoft/Pearson/Google/Apple/Amplify Common Core related materials.

http://michellemalkin.com/2014/01/08/common-core-and-the-edutech-abyss/