satriela

I would be surprised if they accepted 2 year olds

3-6-9 chinese food is THE BEST. And they deliver. If you eat inside, its white linen service for a cheeseburger price. Everytime we go we wonder why its not packed.

So what are you saying? If many different things can't be fixed at once, we should leave the whole thing alone? I think the public education system needs an entire overhaul, but barring that, I see nothing wrong with doing something quite easy and quantifiable quickly--like taking out high stakes testing quickly--while in the process of making some of the other changes that need to be made (like stricter standards for teachers and curricula).

I agree that the reasons are complex; I just think high stakes testing is one thing that lowers the bar and is easily fixed.

You can blame high stakes testing for that. I work in an HISD school that feeds directly to Lee and what proponents of high stakes testing either don't realize or don't care about is that kids have to be taught how to take a multiple choice test. It is not something inherently learned in any academic area. Sure, great teaching will lead to at least okay test scores, but great test scores come from teaching the test...and great money comes from great test scores... Just my two cents.

I heard that toll roads usually never get "untolled" that is, even after they are supposed to become free, they stay toll roads.

I've never posted here (I'm a lurker) but I just want to say that I don't mind the kids hanging out at all. I've lived in Montrose (On Dunlavy) for some years now and I hope the street funk doesn't go away. Clean and sanitized is not how I want my neighborhood. I actually enjoy the live entertainment at the intersection of Montrose and Westheimer and occasionally I fill my car up at that gas station (Valero?) just because I never know what I'm gonna see. Runaway kids will always go SOMEPLACE. Why not the Montrose? 30 years from now when all Montrose has is McMansions there won't be any runaway kids to worry about, anyway.