Comments on: KISD Documents Suggest ‘Board Policy Manual’ Never Legally Adopted By Trustees http://instantnewskaty.com/2009/06/25/6012 Your News Now for Katy, TX, Surrounding Areas Sat, 19 May 2012 16:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ross Raymond http://instantnewskaty.com/2009/06/25/6012/comment-page-1#comment-97 Ross Raymond Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:13:53 +0000 http://instantnewskaty.com/?p=6012#comment-97 Voters would never tolerate or knowingly send a person from our community to serve as a school board trustee and expect them to tolerate the rules you cite. Board members can't speak to the public about Board action, trustees are limited in work study meetings (where they are supposed to ask the tough questions before spending our money) to two questions and/or five minutes; at open meetings elected trustees are given one minute for a question and response and if lucky get a second bite at the apple, and then they vote to spend millions and millions of our tax dollars. Then you tell us these "rules" might not be binding articles at all, just something the president and/or superintendent agreed to which limits the free speech of elected officials. Was this lifted right out of a script for a Saturday morning cartoon? If for no other reason than what you cite in this article I have to ask the question. If a person will take a Board seat and accept these ridiculous rules for their behavior based only on the strength of "someone told them they needed to" without force of actual policy or procedure, how in the world can they be the type of person we need sitting on such a powerful elected body controlling our money and our children's lives? Obviously they will never ask the probing questions we need answered. If these rules were accepted by a previous Board then we need someone to stand up and suggest we take a new approach and change them. Either way, this cannot be allowed to stand. With each article the situation is more ludicrous and the fascination we have with how far afield of "normal and customary" the Board's behavior has strayed continues to grow. Voters would never tolerate or knowingly send a person from our community to serve as a school board trustee and expect them to tolerate the rules you cite. Board members can’t speak to the public about Board action, trustees are limited in work study meetings (where they are supposed to ask the tough questions before spending our money) to two questions and/or five minutes; at open meetings elected trustees are given one minute for a question and response and if lucky get a second bite at the apple, and then they vote to spend millions and millions of our tax dollars.

Then you tell us these “rules” might not be binding articles at all, just something the president and/or superintendent agreed to which limits the free speech of elected officials. Was this lifted right out of a script for a Saturday morning cartoon?

If for no other reason than what you cite in this article I have to ask the question. If a person will take a Board seat and accept these ridiculous rules for their behavior based only on the strength of “someone told them they needed to” without force of actual policy or procedure, how in the world can they be the type of person we need sitting on such a powerful elected body controlling our money and our children’s lives? Obviously they will never ask the probing questions we need answered. If these rules were accepted by a previous Board then we need someone to stand up and suggest we take a new approach and change them. Either way, this cannot be allowed to stand.

With each article the situation is more ludicrous and the fascination we have with how far afield of “normal and customary” the Board’s behavior has strayed continues to grow.

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