Northwest Indiana Discussion

Here are the highlights of the quick meeting;

All board members were present.

No speakers at either Public Expression Sessions.

Unfinished Business:

The School City Logo has now been trademarked.

Calender:

Special Board Meeting for the SCH budget Tuesday July 30,2013 5:30pm 41 Williams Street. Public Work Session will follow at 6pm for NEOLA.

Regular Board Meeting Monday August 12, 2013 5:30pm 41 Williams Street.

New Business:

The School Board will be going paperless for the board members. There is a program that will be implemented this Fall, where all the meeting information will be either on an IPAD or a laptop for quick accessibility for the board members. Also, all SCH information would be accessible very quickly. Ms. White said she has both devices. There is a question of compatibility with various devices. It is possible that all board members might be receiving a uniform device, according to Mr. Boone.

My take:

How much is this new technology going to cost the taxpayers? Will the agenda's still be printed up for the public?

Thank you for the updates and much appreciated!

No problem. The jobs shuffle for the school year has started again, also. I expect to see a lot more names on the personnel reports at the next regular board meeting. Virni Webb has been terminated from her job as Social Worker at HHS. William Paskis has been transferred from Assistant Principal at O'Bannon, to Social Studies Teacher at Scott.

Ipads retail for $499. Apple does give educational discounts to students and has donated their laptops and Ipads to schools. We are educating our children to compete in a global economy so I think that making school board agendas available digitally is a great idea. At $500 retail, the cost to provide 5 school board members with iPads is minimal. It's exactly the kind of investment that successful organizations make to become more efficient. If the agenda is available online in a PDF form and a printed copy is available to view at the meetings, making additional copies is a waste of taxpayer's money and is bad for the environment.Schools should be leading the way in increasing energy efficiency and reducing paper waste.Parents can print the agenda at home at their own expense if they choose to.

Educating your children to compete in a global economy? You cannot even educate them to work in your own mills and refineries.

If $2,500 retail is so minimal, why don't you "donate" some of "your" College Bound bribe money so that all of Hammond can benefit from a small portion of what you have pilfered from them?

Didn't the East Chicago School System require each and every one of its underachieving students to have a laptop? Didn't a significant number of these laptops turn up "lost" or "stolen"?

You, Sparks Hein, are a Maximum Moron.

Not investing in the latest technology is costly to taxpayers. It's costly to you. I bet your daughter can't even do homework at the house with your dial up internet service.

Sparky wins this round

If Sparky "wins" this round, than than parents of any academically backward Hammond kid wins by jamming local taxpayers with the costs of that kid's college schooling. If (and that's a big "if") any of these Hammond kids graduate from college, odds are that they come back and sell their eye teeth trying to get come government job or end up stuffing car seats on a dreary production line.

The LOSER is feeding at the public trough for his kids college costs. My daughter earned hers.

Typical. Once again, I embarrass Tiger1 and she launches an ad hominem attack. Anyone want to wager her kid isn't even allowed to have a smart phone to help her compete in college?

Does it really matter in what form the agenda is presented? Will buying 5 IPads for the board boost the 68.4% graduation rate for Hammond schools?

How does a smart phone help anyone compete anywhere? The President has made it easy for illiterates in Hammond/Gary/East Chicago/Whiting to get their hands on them and these primitives are as backward as they ever have been.

An FYI for the knuckle dragging union thug who is leeching off the government dole/taxpayers money for his kids college. My daughter has a 4.0 at Purdue, made Deans List for both semesters,and was given semester honors for both semesters in her first year. She is majoring in accounting. She has earned, and is continuing to earn her college, WITHOUT College Bound or loans. She got the Chancellors Scholarship, which is paying for EVERYTHING.
As for the electronics, except for what is needed for her major/studies, she is not interested. She absolutely has no use for a smart phone. She can get one if she wants to, but the cell phone she bought 4 years ago, is adequate enough for her.