Talk:Katy Independent School District

message: This page is a mess, completely. I think for it to function properly most of the timeline needs to be removed, as well as the list of schools. It is the district's responsibility to keep a full timeline, but Wikipedia should just provide a description  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.165.224.91 (talk) 04:56, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Collapse size

message: I have added the cleanup tag to flag for other editors to come help clean up the page. This page is mostly set up as a trivia page. The content should be in encyclopeadic post and not list form. I can help clean up some but will need more help. Lots of good information that I don't want to lose. Monkeytheboy (talk) 13:27, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: It was claimed that the open editing of Wikipedia is why the source is banned at KISD. However the assertion that the content is bad because it can be edited does not pass muster. As stated in the article most bad edits are quickly reverted and pages that get out of hand can be locked. --Claygate 20:04, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banning of Wikipedia at KISD 

message: From the interesting edits on the "current controversies" section of the KISD page it can be inferred that 205.196.188.13 and 67.15.100.210 are affiliated with KISD administration. Maybe I'm wrong but anyhow this is my question to you.
You (KISD) probably block Wikipedia for its lack of credibility (the 11-year-old argument) based on the edits I have seen. However, it is impossible to block all untrue information on the internet. Why did you choose to block Wikipedia but not other sites? And why did you wait until November of 2005 to block Wikipedia?
Also based on the history tab, 205.196.188.135 and 67.15.100.210 have been editing and using Wikipedia after the beginning of November when Wikipedia was blocked. If Wikipedia is such an untrue source why do you continue to use it? And how many 11-year-olds edit articles titled “Korean Romanization”?
-- andman8
As far as I know, nobody who has responded is an administrator. Someone showed a couple of groups of us the inaccurate and quite comical reason you had originally listed that the site was blocked. Personally, I would not have visited the site if it wasn’t for that reason. It did validate the reason the site was blocked, though. The bias of the special education blurb also adds to the lack of reliability of some of the articles.
Teachers are always reminding students that not everything on the Internet is true. We remind them that books (and online databases) have editors and information has been checked for reliability. In contrast, we teach them that anyone who can access the Internet can create a website, and nobody is checking these pages for accuracy. Wikipedia probably would not be blocked if it didn’t call itself an encyclopedia.
Let’s forget the 11 year old argument for a second. Any site that could let Pat Buchanan edit an “encyclopedia” article about the DNC or let someone from moveon.org edit an article about George Bush is going to have a few reliability issues.
Staff members can still access the site. Students are always encouraged to begin researching using the Katy ISD online databases. They are also encouraged to use more than one of the databases (which include more than just encyclopedias) in their work.
While it’s wonderful that Wikipedia gives suggestions to check the validity of the site. Anyone who has taught knows all too well that the average student (especially at the junior high and elementary school levels) will not take the time to do the additional research. Who can blame them when there are other proven routes to take? I would be curious to hear if you have ever taught students at this level.
What began as a good chuckle about why the site was blocked has begun to take up a bit of my time, so I bid you farewell. Thanks for the interesting discussion. Maybe a couple of other people who have responded will be able to add to your discussion.
-- 66.170.198.199
Well, thanks for your time. I'm sure that if you'd allow your students to access Wikipedia they would also be able to engage in direct feedback/questions with subject matter experts in a given field of study. I'm sure that it has already happened on some occasions in the past with KISD students. These students are likely smarter and more motivated than you seem to give credit.
--Claygate 21:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions to the KISD computer administrator or other KISD technology officers

message: Here's a question, is the KISD article accurate? It doesn't sound accurate - "sex with animals." --Timestopper 23:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It happened in 93 so there's not a lot on the Internet about it. This particular article mentions some of the details, but is no longer in "print".  --Claygate 03:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Accuracy

message: "The talk of the Katyisd theme park is high controversey due to the estimated price of the park to be around 13.5 million dollars." This claim is unverified, if whoever wrote this can find a reference i'll put it back on. Andman8 01:02, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: theme parks

message: There is currently a discussion of this article on the Wiki Project Schools talk page. --Hebisddave 14:14, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of this article at the WP Schools talk page 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Katy ISD.gif

message: According to "德州簡訊." by the Epoch Times, "Katy" is "科提" so the Chinese name would be "科提獨立學區." WhisperToMe (talk) 14:13, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese name

message: I saw [this press release] from the National Autism Association. Has there been coverage of this in reliable sources? If so, perhaps it should be mentioned in the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:42, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autistic students at Exley Elementary 

message: * http://www.katyisd.org/esl/Documents/Parent%20Center%20Brochure.pdf
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thread_title: Spanish documents

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message: * Katy ISD Elementary School 16 at Fry Road @ Misty Cove Drive (this makes it Polly Ann McRoberts Elementary School) - http://books.tax.hctx.net/BlockBooksPDF/v118/AE1997_118-5_0276.pdf and http://books.tax.hctx.net/v118/AE1997_118-5_0276.jpg
WhisperToMe (talk) 02:49, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  County block book maps 

message: Archive of former KISD superintendent Lance Hindt's thesis at http://web.archive.org/web/20191119223922/https://uh-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/10657/662/HINDT-DISSERTATION-2012.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
His dissertation was removed from the UH website https://www.fox26houston.com/news/former-katy-isd-superintendent-dissertation-removed-from-uh-after-plagiarism-probe and the article says "Citing student privacy protections, the university would neither confirm sanctions against Hindt nor offer a public exoneration."
WhisperToMe (talk) 09:15, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindt dissertation 

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