I don’t mind your knowing who I am when I post. 99.9% of the readers could not care less who “we” are, I must keep my I. D. away from a few select others. Some of us do business with the district and are venders and we are sick at what we see. Some of us have family members working for the district, and they won’t let us speak freely because they are concerned about blow back.

If I had to post under my name me the comments would have to be sanitized and more than likely worthless.

Why not relax your rules for a trial period and see what happens?

There is a new game in town, the Katy Dispatch and they welcome comments, but looking at the names of some who work there and/or own a part of it, I don’t trust them not to look up my name and track me down.

As soon as I am clear of the district other than being just a taxpayer, I will take you up on your offer, until then to do otherwise, would be proof that I had “lost my mind.”

Sad indeed are the developments at INK.

Of course, my website offers virtually unlimited opportunity for discourse of public issues including public education for those who will just sign their name.

Sure wish you and a few other of the great commentators would take off the cloak and start posting at my site. INK is dead; it is never coming back to what it was; no other internet medium in town offers such serious opportunity for exchanges on serious issues; but, I have become even more hardcore that names – with few exceptions – are required.

Why don’t you start the ball rolling, and let’s re-create what INK once offered but with names this time?

Ditto, ditto, and another ditto.

See you at the debates?

As for Dolcefino: never met him, know only of a handful that have ever met him, can’t really form an opinion on his candidacy. I do know that he dug up more dirt on more folks over the years and lived to report about it than others. He APPEARS to be a really confident guy – at least on TV – but whether that will make a difference or not in this race remains to be seen.

As for Joe: we all know what we’re getting from him. Anyone who doesn’t probably shouldn’t vote at all (though that’s already 95-97% of KISD constituents in most elections). Name a new sidewalk after him and move on…

Candidate #3? Still have lots of time for information to come out about him. A true unknown at this point to most voters.

In Joe’s case I suspect it will be the same thing he has said for 20+ years. “This is not the right time to bring new people onto the board. The world will likely end and therefore I have elected not to die and will live forever on the Board. This is the best possible outcome for Katy ISD and I am willing to sit on the BOT and do nothing for as long as it takes.”

Someone tell me what Joe has done, what Joe can point to with pride and say, “That’s mine!” in all the years he has been holding down a cushion on the chair. He does more things away from Katy at regional and state wide events, which he can’t attend if he does not have a BOT slot of his own.

Let’s thank him for his service, name something after him, and let the good times roll.

But to be fair, let’s give all three a shot at wowing us in the coming weeks.

second, lets find out what Wayne has to say? all i know is that he has a reputation for uncovering corruption and wants small government entities to be more transparent? whats wrong with that?

obviously he’s already rattling cages.

The cell phone numbers of families are on file with KatyISD for emergency purposes, I thougth the District would respect this private information and not use it to promote their agenda.

The point I believe that JW2 was trying to make was that serious incidents – this incidents as an example – rarely make the light of day in the public eye. ANYTIME an incident like this occurs in our district or anywhere it should be made public almost immediately; to blatantly and intentionally hide/leave unreported incidents like creates a distrustful and potentially ongoing unsafe situation. The district has no problem whatsoever with PR and media blitzes when they “need” hundreds of millions of bond monies and/or to celebrate awards that no one’s heard of (but WE WON THEM!) yet somehow they seem “clueless” as to how to always keep the community abreast of all the serious incidents that DO occur on our campuses more than most could fathom.

We have raised a generation of “its not my fault.” Maybe it isn’t, but someone has got to pay and sometimes you just happen to be near the front of the line. This kid is in trouble. We can have him pay the price now, or simply let him skate and in a few years see him attending classes INSIDE Huntsville U. wearing state issued clothing.

What did he do to get to “A” school in the first place? How many times has he been kicked out of class? Are we to believe he was doing okay and then just snapped? Somehow I doubt this is his first or second offense.

Now, not to say that Just Wondering2 doesn’t have good points, I don’t agree with placing blame on an object that was given to the child as an option from the parent; TV, video games, movies, music, etc.

Parents need to take responsibility for their kids. YES YES, I can hear it now, “but its all so easily accessible.” No, its not. When did ground rules and punishment not stop previous generations? If you don’t stand by your word then why would your child not push back and test the boundaries? There is also something called CHILD LOCK on TVs, you can block certain websites with and without the appropriate software, you don’t have to buy your kid the most violent game so that he’s cool and in with the crowd.

Maybe the laws should reflect that if the child does something wrong, the parent is punished. Maybe parents would start paying attention then to their children then. BETTER YET! Stop procreating.