These were responsible citizens who have the good sense to realize that there is something wrong with our KISD schools, especially when their leadership wants to spend money on grandiose stadiums for ONE football team, when they take buses away from little children so they can have more money to give their vendor pimp friends, when they ignore the overcrowded schools that children in junior high and high school are enduring [only because the school board will not rezone], and when there appears to be a vacuum of leadership by an out of control superintendent and a board that is peopled by mostly ignorant hangers on that haven't done anything of note in their lives themselves, but who find self-importance by being on a local school board.

Bill Proctor is the exception, and they ignore everything he says. [And sometimes even Mr. Proctor doesn't vote "no" when he should.]

The clear message of a soundly defeated bond is that some things need to change.  The superintendent who is so full of himself but can't get a bond passed, needs to find a job somewhere else, but while he's still here, he needs to stay in Katy and tend to school matters instead of gallivanting all over the country being on every pseudo-educational board he can find. The board needs to pay attention to the academics of our students and to their general welfare--i.e., not putting them in danger by making them walk to school on busy streets and through ditches when there is plenty of money to fund school buses (we all moved here because KISD DID bus their students to school).  These are the major changes that are necessary.

But in addition to those things, we need leadership that deals fairly with all school populations and in all areas. 

The curriculum management that is in place needs to go, and teachers, who have been trained to be teachers, need to be left alone to teach their students as they see fit.  Teachers don't need some person or persons at the administration office telling them how to do their job.  Get rid of the CSCOPE-like tool that is ruining the education of children, (and just because KISD doesn't have CSCOPE doesn't mean they don't have something that's just the same with another name), get rid of most of the administrators that deal with curriculum, get rid of in-service training--teachers are either teachers or they're not--they don't need someone to hold their hand, and they sure don't need someone with no more experience than they have, telling them HOW to teach!

Put good literature back in our libraries, quit sending all our good library books to Africa, and stop trying to manipulate and alter the beliefs of children through their library books. The public schools should leave the teaching of political beliefs to the parents of the students. 

ALL of our high schools need to have the best coaches available.  I don't need to say any more than that. (And don't come after me about the coaches, or I will tell you a story about the coach Taylor High School got after they went further in the football play-offs than Katy High School did in the 1980's. This is a decades old problem.)

The vendor pimps that are lined up at the door of KISD need to be culled. Everyone who has their hand in KISD's pockets needs to be scrutinized.  That includes, but is not limited to, the demographer who is on retainer, the two architectural firms that have built every school or facility since 1999, the guy who gets to represent the insurance companies as an unnecessary middle man, the guy who brings land deals to the board table without public scrutiny, the guy who sells unnecessary electronic signs to every school, the Katy Chamber of Commerce, whose national agenda is to "reform public education" and whose local branch lends a hand to efforts to sway public opinion toward the liberal view and who wholeheartedly endorses everything Alton Frailey wants to do without question,  --I could go on, but the picture of the problem is clear.  Those feeding at the public trough need to stop it or be stopped. Go look at the check registers if you think there's not a problem.  (http://www.katyisd.org/dept/bf/Pages/default.aspx)

Make no mistake, KISD will double down, just like they did when we defeated their bond in 2006, and they'll come back with another bond that's bigger.  They will wear down the citizens who opposed them with rhetoric and partisanship.  Don't let them do that.  Stick to the cause. Those of you who were absent this time need to help out next time--with your time AND your money. Make sure KISD takes care of the things that matter to the people.

Those of you with children in the schools need to find suitable people to run for the school board next May.  These need to be people who didn't major in underwater basket weaving.  They need to be smart people.  They need to be competent in their field of work.  You get the picture. Henry Dibrell and Terry Huckaby need to be replaced next May with more competent board members.  Those of you who would elect someone to protect your football team need to rethink your priorities and think about your childrens' academic educations instead. Those of you who blindly vote for Joe Adams every time he runs, need to think about voting for someone more competent than Joe.  Same thing goes for Rebecca Fox. 

Above all please keep in mind all those aging folks who took it upon themselves to go vote to stop the nonsense.  They deserve your attention and respect for what they are trying to tell all of us.