The Courier of Montgomery County reports that there is a lack of fair continuity when it comes to Chromebooks on Conroe ISD campuses. District trustees are looking to solve the issue of some schools lacking technology devices while some have many.
Compounding the issues is Conroe ISD’s recently engaged strict cell phone policy. Access to devices during the school day is limited. Student’s devices and their cell phones have been used by teachers as a way to complete and hand in their work.
Member of the district’s Student Health Advisory Council and the parent of a student going to a Conroe school, Marianne Horton, spoke during the public comment section of the March 19th school board meeting about Chromebook “disparity” between CISD schools.
Data presented by Ms. Horton, which acknowledges working and non-working devices show 2,169 students attending McCullough Junior High. However, there are only 1,970 Chromebooks available. Yet, York Junior High’s 1,973 students have 2,169 Chromebooks available.
Also her data reveals the students at Conroe High School and The Woodlands College Park have most of the devices available. Conroe possesses 4,024 Chromebooks for their 3,823 students, while students at College Park have 4,424 available Chromebooks, which is actually 1,000 more than the number of students.
Superintendent Null said the number of Chromebook differences among campuses is due to how the allocated budgets of the principals were spent. Since each school utilizes their own budget money, Chromebooks can’t be transferred among campuses.
Null said, “It’s an adjustment, we will have to look at a way to see if we can support them.”
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