My ex step kids were in Spring Branh, my kid also until 8th grade. Im familiar with their quality It does have low performing schools however
The Heights is really a strange place , a large percentage of those people are single / young professionals with no kids or older people who's kids have already flown the coop. I've done a lot of work in that area over the years and its very rare (since the gentrification) to see a "family unit".
If they had a buncha kids , they damn sure couldn't afford to live there .... that's a high rent area now. Most of those places don't have a yard either .... developers would buy 2 lots and build 4 homes on them with no space to spare. Rice Military (Washington Ave) is much the same way .... that place was a ghetto a decade ago , now its full of pricey homes with no yard and the houses have zero clearance between them. Now they are doing the same thing in the Northside Village area along Irvington / Fulton / Hardy / Elysian / Jensen inside 610. That area was dirt poor for decades.
The hybrid in-class/online system for teachers SUCKS and being ignored is across the board. The online classes need dedicated teachers. CCISD has this, and my 15yo son is doing pretty well. We just have to stay engaged with him, which is something we've always done anyway. This isn't rocket chemistry. Colleges have had online classes for 15+ years. Learn from them.
I wonder what that percentage are Asians. Pretty hard to fail a class if you know you'll get 50 lashings per F. White people love their sports and not looking like a square a little too much. Enoug are passing down the wrong values for "41%" to happen. If you live in the wrong hood, maybe having a sense of better school work ethic will make you look like an "elitist" in front of the peanut gallery. Just my random thoughts on why a growing majority of the nation is starting to turn against "science" and hard "facts".
Believe im familiar with all these areas. Near northside in the Northside HS area is a long away. Where i live in fifth ward off of lyons back down towards Wheatley HS is much further along
Talk about no interaction. It's much different paying for something and something that is free, not a great comparison and a lot of people struggle with online college courses as well, takes self discipline.
I'm all for dedicated online teachers. But you can't compare elementary and middle school kids to college kids. High school kids maybe. You never see an elementary class with over 100 students. You see that regularly in college.
So are the gentrified folk going in the 3rd ward going to send their kids to Yates or are they just sending their kids to private school? I think that's what the majority of people do when they don't want their kids at HISD but want to live in the loop also thanks for being real sick of theses fake ass clutchfans from foreign countries joining to be on the D&D and not talk Rockets.
this feels like Clutchfans again, the REAL CLUTCHFANS not trolled up with fake fans who don't know Fifth Ward or Dave Ward or Montgomery Ward
I really don't know .... A large percentage of the people moving to these inner loop gentrified area's don't have kids at all. Those that do .... I would guess that those that can afford it send their kids to private schools - who wants to send their kids to a school with the reputation like many of the HISD schools if they have a choice ? I moved to my current location in Cy Fair so my kids didn't have to go to HISD ...
HISD has been a bad district for as long as I can remember .... even when I graduated nearly 40 years ago (Sam Houston). As for more recently , I really don't think its isolated to HISD .... everyone gets a trophy for participation and the standards have fallen in general and parents treat school as a babysitter in many instances and few parents are "involved".
