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  1. I see that the one Klein Intermediate school that some folks love to denigrate is on there, too. Way to go, Wunderlich.
  2. Did anyone attend last night? What happened?
  3. There was a guy who kept pointing out that PASA was wrong, wrong, wrong on the data for the 2004 Bond. The people in the Central office and most of the Board treated him like a child molester. Why didn't they hire those guys at Rice. Is anybody at PASA a demographer? DH was a soothsayer for a Fortune 100 co. before he retired. Many things can be determined 20 years out. Some can not. His work group would never go out more than 5 years on any demographic data. That is why I never trusted the PASA numbers. Couple that with trying to determine population growth in an area where, until recently, any fool with funding could stick a pipe in the ground for water and build a subdivision. Kinda hard to prognosticate growth. The 2nd. time Forest missed their AYP I asked Dr. Cain and the Board how it helped Forest to not be a Title 1 school? He said the district would rather handle the needs of Forest. That said to me, that if Forest missed AYP, Dr. Cain did not have to let Forest students into the other 3 high schools. They could apply for Title 1 funding. They do not want to. Hope I saved his letter. You should have been in the Board room the night all those parents showed up to plead with the Board not to put all of those kids from Klein Intermediate into their school. "Please split them up" was the cry. As far as the reduced and free lunch goes. I'm not sure we have that much more needy population as much as people who now know how to work the system.
  4. Hell will freeze over before the area south of the creek of Cypress Creek and north of 1960 get rezoned. The people I know who attend Wunderlich and Forest love their schools. The problem is the perception that they are in some way inferior. That myth is circulated by people who are employed by the District. Several are my neighbors work at Mittlestadt in order to get their kids into Kleb. One even sells herself out as a childcare provider to get her friends kids into Kleb. Some of these people go so far as to think that any parent who allows their kid to go to Wunderlich is a bad parent. So much for ignorance and bigotry. Not much can be done on that issue. My problem is real estate values. We recently had a sale in Woods 2. The appraiser for the loan valued the house at 500K. They sold for 400K just to move. Most of us intend to leave here in a hearse, so value does not matter. Those of us who are transferred have a small problem, but most of the time, the company will come to the party. Those of us who are retired and have to move for family reasons are getting hosed. One of the question I have is when does the district close a school due to declining enrollment? Some of that PASA information had Kleb at 70% capacity. At 1 million a year to operate, when do they send those kids someplace and shut it down? We lived in Webster Groves, Mo. 10 years after the birth control pill came onto the market. They were selling elementary schools to be converted into condos.
  5. There was a Supreme Court ruling several years ago that pretty much let school district off the hook regarding integration. Dr. Cain stated at one of the recent bond meetings that they did not use socioeconomics as an indicator when deciding zones, only geography. A Harvard study several years ago found Klein to be one of the top 10 segregated districts in the nation. That was before the big changes at Forest. Wonder what they would find now? If geography was the only criteria, why are kids in my neighborhood bussed twice as far across one of the most dangerous highways in the state? We are 2 miles from Kleb and Klein and 4 miles from Forest and Wunderlich. The kids are split upon leaving Mittlestadt. There are 2 kids from here going to Wunderlich. Everybody they know and went to school with for 6 years goes to Kleb.
  6. Check the KISD website. My neighbor informs me that a parent committee has been formed. They are to provide their wishes to the district. The results of these 2 meetings will go to the Board. A public meeting will be held on January 7. The board will vote on the attendance zones at their February meeting. The PASA 2008 Bond report provides new Intermediate zones. Here's hoping the district uses them.
  7. A school district is only as good as the teacher in my kids classroom. That is the way of the world. My children were in the Bammel band when Fred Schroeder was the director. He was one great role model. I wish Stelle Claughton could be cloned and sent around the world to teach how to be a principal. Forest, please don't fall into the trap of vilifying people who have a different opinion than you. We also have a different experience. District employees in the Central office have told several people that my husband and I have a negative opinion about Klein. That is just plain not true. Because of our experience, we do have a negative opinion of some of them. I first became aware of the impending population explosion and changing demographic for Texas in 1964. Anybody who looked could see it coming. Forest, for you to state that people who disagree with Klein do so because they are somehow disgruntled due to changing demographics in their neighborhood is trivializing the problem, and you just called me a racist. The disgruntled continue to move north. Most homeowners south of Cypress Creek are here because with love our neighborhood and we want to be here. We also expect the schools to be competent. Four principals at Forest in ten years renders that a difficult task. Three of the Board members from south of the creek are married to current or retired Klein administrators. One owes his job to people at Klein. Do you believe any serious disagreement or even animated discussion is happening there? When school success eludes the majority of kids in the south end of the district, everybody blames the students and their worthless parents. Coming from a very long line of abolitionist it is my contention that it is the school who is failing the kids. The educrats in the Central office have had years to get ready. They were ready for June and Wards kids. Tell me how you would design a music program for a student population that is 50% reduced and free lunch? Would your program require kids to come up with an average additional $500.00 per year for band trips? Many of the kids are already working plus trying to be regular suburban students. How could you perform in Carnegie Hall if half your students couldn't pay for the trip? Would you get the kids all hyped up about a band trip, then loan them the money to go in October, with the understanding that they could not graduate until it is paid back. Having to pay for a lost book is one thing. Expecting a 17 year old kid and his immigrant parents to understand the economics of predatory lending enough to come up $1200.00 IMO borders on malevolent. Some people say that if a kid can't afford extra curricular things, they should just not participate. I'm just communist enough to think that public schools should not promote any activity that is not available to ALL STUDENTS. All over the district. Whatever activity is accessible to one, should be available to any who want to participate. How could a kid in Inwood partake of the IB program at Oak if they could not come up with the funds to do a daily 50 mile round trip commute? This is the same old Jim Crow crap that has been going on since my toddler drank the colored water at Weingarten's Grocery Store 45 years ago. And that is why I continue to stay ticked off at the Klein School District.
  8. Many of us take Section 25 of the Texas Education code seriously. We are also law abiding, ethical people. Some of us are not. See tcklme's 1st entry. Some districts check, some don't. One would need to follow every kid, every day. You could live in one attendence zone and work in another and give the school your office address. One could live in Spring buy a very cheap lot in Oak attendance zone. Tell the district that you are building. You are a property owner in the district. It's cheaper than tuition at Northland. Will the KISD person who counts cars in driveways ever verify a house is built?I wonder why we even have attendance zones and shool districts, given the court ruling in Robertson County a few years ago. If district B can send busses to pick up kids in district A what's the point of having a school district?NYC has open enrollment for HS kids.
  9. The State of Texas permits transferring from one district to another. All one needs to do is sign an affidavit stating that you reside somewhere other than with your parents 24/7. The district receives the alloted state funds and the presumed school tax money from the house where the student now lives. Several years ago it was discussed at a board meeting. At that time I was aware of 3-5 hundred affidavit students at Forest from others districts. Dr. Cain stated that they did not check. The next morning, I called Cy Fair to inquire if they checked. I was told they indeed did as there was a big problem at Jersey Village H S. To my knowledge the only checking regarding residency was in relation to the elected at Kleb future Klein cheerleaders who were kicked off the squad because they lived in the Forest zone. One lived in Forest zone, the others mom lived in Forest, but the dad lived a few blocks form Klein.
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