I am not an educator but have friends who are. They have shared some of the problems concerning the last bond issue. A tremendous amount of money has been wasted on unnecessary technology. Many of the already obsolete laptops provided to each teacher are used to take attendance only. I have heard the gradebook is not user-friendly, is time consuming and is down much of the time anyway.
Teachers are willing to use technology as long as it works.
In my opinion, D-11's priorities are all wrong. We are a growing community, and more families are moving here from out of state. This city's economy is diverse enough now that the odds of seeing a population decrease as in 1989 is unlikely. That was due to a deep recession. New teachers should be hired to reduce class size.