COMPUTERS FOR BOARD MEMBERS:

In the 1990's when Hugh Hayes was the superintendent (and you can look elsewhere on this web site to see who the other board members were), I asked that the Board and the superintendent use computers to communicate.

Think about it--we're in to the 1990's!  There are classroom sets of Apple IIC's in our junior highs that have been there since the mid 1980's. Most everyone in America has a computer at home--and the Katy ISD school board and the superintendent are still communicating with each other with a stand alone heat transfer fax machine located in each member's home.  No emails, only phone calls and fax machines!

Computer technology has put the bread and butter on my table since 1973 when my husband got his MEE from Rice and went to work for Texas Instruments. I watched as silicon came into prominence. I had color monitors and voice recognition devices in my living room before they were on the market. My children thought they were great toys.

I had a lap top of my own when I asked that the School District purchase computers with which the Board and the Superintendent could communicate. They ordered them, but when they came, I was the only one who could use one!  I was astonished.  So I gave mine back and told them to give it to a teacher who could use it.

Who knows how long it was before they all got one and were able to use them.  I didn't see them at board meetings until the 2000's.  I know that Leonard Merrell couldn't work one either at first (he came in 1995)--and he had written his doctoral thesis (as had Hugh Hayes) on "computer aided instruction" way back in the early 1980's.  You have to wonder about that, and I do.

This is one of those "I tried" moments.  But I get credit for trying. It wasn't my fault that seven people other than me were computer illiterate!