New School Bond Proposal in the Spring Independent School District

Spring ISD is proposing a humongous bond in a district that already spends more per student than Klein or Cy Fair. I think that this spending proposal includes providing lap top computers for each high school student and maybe PDA's for lower grade students. To paraphrase what singer Dierks Bentley says, "I know what they are feeling, but what are they thinking?" The pawn shops would all of a sudden be flooded with lap tops and PDA's. Our tax dollars would also be wasted on paying people to keep track of these laptops and PDA's and maybe further burden teachers time with unnecessary requirements. "What ARE THEY thinking?" The whole school district, and many others, have gone bonkers with unaccountable spending....of our money. It is too easy for the schools to get money and they are too little like a business where spending accountability and the need to get a return on your investment means something. We are spending the money, but the education is not coming through.

Heaven knows the teachers need to be better paid..and also held accountable for poor performance if it is within their control..of course that opens up a whole new topic of what they can do and what they cannot do. However, the school districts are sooooo top heavy that most of the school tax dollar goes to the administration and not to the teachers who do the teaching.

I have also heard that the tax dollars for Spring ISD has purchased a box at Minute Maid Park, I think, for about $1.7 million dollars. If that is true, it is unconscionable that tax money would be spent on something like that.

Does anyone know if other school districts are doing the same thing?

I think "Enough is Enough!"...."WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?"

Gary S. Bailey