buschlen

Jungle Jims

My children went to Valley Oaks, SBMS and Memorial. We live on the north side of the freeway in a neighborhood that adjoins Spring Valley, it is in the city of Houston. I have a freshman at LSU, a freshman at memorial and a 7th grader at SBMS. We don't make a lot of money and the kids were never treated differently and they got a great education. There is some snobbiness there as there is in any school. For the most part it wasn't/isn't an issue. The kids mostly hang out with the kids in the activities that they do, my son played football he hung out with the football kids, the girls are in orchestra and they hang out with the band/orchestra kids. The only issue at Memorial for us was with the top 10% rule. My son grauduated with a 6.5 GPA and was in the second quarter of his class.