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for history sake...did Jews consider themselves "white" when it only came to dealing with blacks or they differentiated themselves from all cultures in Houston? Considering their history, I would find it hard to believe they would look down on blacks since both suffered horrible fates at one time....

Tomball hasn't been traditionally strong in football....opening this school weakens them...

amazing how us blacks have gotten bad raps which has caused other races to develop that same mindset even though they were treated just as bad... Why would a Jew be prejudiced against a black when they were done wrong by someone with the same skin color who opposed their religion in early 1900s? sad part about it....this same story (white flight) I would like to see has been replayed all across Houston to the point to where whites are back to the farms

Now, all Cypress is alot of Waller and Hempstead natives who moved out that way....not much difference except the scenery Coles Crossing is nice but that proves that the Northern side of 290 is the better side to invest in as all the "mature" areas rest over there.... however, some areas concern me.....when those KB Hones begin to rot what exactly happens?

just buy in Waller...10 extra minutes = alot more space for less money... I ventured back to the NW this weekend...its jammed packed and not worth the drive if you got to work in downtown....its great if you work against the traffic like I did for 5 years..... Like football said....champions, anywhere off 249 and cypresswood, etc. were great buys as the areas are mature with trees and you have several options to go home.....I lived off 249 and 1960 and worked in Waller County....I could go home though Tomball on 2920 to 249 or cut through by Cy-fair High, etc....

I lived in the mall parking lot for 3 years....I felt pretty safe out there the outdoor concept is fine....but that's what I see coming to Cypress instead...

I guess I'm a dropout...lol.....Willowridge was majority white when it opened and Hightower now is going through what Willowridge went rhrough so your gambling whatsoever.... Willowridge has a smaller student-teacher ratio than all FBISD schools as opposed to being jam packed into Hightower...a new school will open in South Sienna Plantation in a few years but who knows what zones will be there as Willowridge's enrollment won't grow by leaps and bounds at that time..

don't know if it's a kiss-up thing on the sports side but they seem to live their lives though these "Houston" pro athletes.....before the steroids....Roger, Andy, whomever would get so much bogus coverage it was pitiful...prior to that, they continually dedicate bunches of space to pro sports which is boring and the love fest between them with A&M and UT is overly abundant while neglecting the locals.... but no competition breeds mediocrity...

considering the neighborhoods some of the schools are in....it shows you HISD looked after the early city leaders

That was a big thing when it hit Houston..I remember the commercials and the book covers.... The first time I went there every attraction was up and running and the entire food court was functional......I went back later and the ride where you rode around in the dark and shot at the ceiling was broke and never reopened to my knowledge...the food court was 90% closed except for one area and the rest was nothing but storage the bumper car area was too damn small and the mini-web had a height requirement where none of us could get on....you had to pay for all the arcades but I did enjoy the skating and bowling alleys... all of that was in the early 90s.....I went back there in 2001 and the place was a dump then as the place reflected the chanign area...I saw more fights there in my life and more single young moms than I've ever seen

2 pesos....way better than taco cabana.....first place I ever saw a double drive-thru... best timmy chan's ever was at hillcroft before beechnut...

I grew up near Hillcroft and Main Street..... I remember an ice cream place on Hillcroft before you got to Braeswood on the corner in the same parking lot Rice used to be in...before that right past St. Thomas More Church, there was a place called Jacks Yogurt Stop that was the first place I ever tried Frozen Yogurt that was right before the Frozen Yogurt craze of the 90s... at Hillcroft and 90....Pizza Inn used to be pretty successful and it was next to Burger King, Ron's Chicken and a Frenchy's that was just as good as the original....across the street was a BBQ stand in a red building that was pretty good too next to the diving school What I want to know, off of Chimney Rock and Airport (current used car lot) /Hiram Clarke and West Fuqua are old buildings that resemble a chinese temple...I vaguely remember going in there as a kid but where they chinese restaurants? some of the best sno-cones ever were off of West Fuqua and Hiram Clarke in a white stand

that's the trouble with the majority black areas....people always want to say we're problems but we're the areas that have been broken up to fill quotas....if left alone and provided the same resources such as other schools in the district, things would be way better...imagine if Carver never had to close and split up and was provided a brand new facility to foster school and neighborhood pride? When it was all said and one...the bussing was never needed as blacks ended up moving North to Spring anyway and Aldine ISD is majority hispanic now..... the model concept for blacks was Willowridge High as they were successsful across the board in Fort Bend ISD in the late 80s and early 90s once the area shifted to majority african american...they got too powerful in certain areas and FBISD started bussing kids two miles away to schools way across the district and broke it all up....

some of those restaurants are right down the street off 518 as I know Olive Garden just opened I think...I wonder how serious will they take the survey?

Eric Gray, QB of the 1990 National Title team, lived back there...he got shot back there one night How could Acres Home be zoned to MacArthur and Nimitz? That's a 20 minute ride......simply pitiful how they broke that area to fill a dang quota..

real simple answer as for Acres Home getting split up....Klein ISD needed blacks for the district and Acres Homes was the closest area with the largest concentration of blacks at the time.....their boundaries look like a lollipop... they were sent to Klein before Klein Forest was built.... still, the move made no sense as eventually, blacks have made their way way past the original boundaries and the same folks who authorized the move have tucked and ran away years ago... as for Aldine football...it's been told to me that Aldine didn't become a power until a powerful zoning change on West Montgomery that sent alot of Acres Homes to the school in the late 70s or early 80s....I believe that to be true as I knew quite a few folks who lived closer to Booker T. Washington were zoned to Aldine...Greenspoint changed alot also and the apartments became football factories for Aldine as some major talent came out of there.....mix those two elements together you have success (Westfield High) I can see that happening as Aldine grew into a power from the 80s to the late 90s before fizzling out to what they are now due to people moving to Spring ISD....Westfield's emergence in football has been due to families from AISD and HISD moving out there. Trace the names of alot of kids and they had success in those districts... my beef with Bill Smith was that he ran that tired offense until he retired and never diversified it......when the demographics changed, he acquired more skill players with speed but he kept on running that damn offense that featured the run and he never passed the ball which hurt alot of kids playing receiver....coaches like that looked great when it works but when the talent declines and the offense fails to change, it looks horrible. I saw his last game against Port Arthur Memorial.....he blew a 30-point lead

what's odd.....Willowridge opened as a majority white school (like alot of HISD schools) so alot of folks who moved into Sugar Land over the past two decades may have ties there but tend to "forget" where they came from....when blacks moved into the area, they fled like roaches when lights come on but the school was one of the few who made a successful transition from majority white to majority black in the 80s as the school actually became well-known and feared across Texas. What FBISD hated most was when Willowridge received all of the athletic recognition, fine arts recognition and then they surpassed Kempner in math TEAMS score one year.....in typical fashion, they rally a small group of parents in the area with a pipe deam that ultimately became Thurgoood Marshall but those parents never reaped those benefits.... however, FBISD constantly rezoned areas right by Willowridge three times in 8 years and as the enrollment dropped and they never made the difference up. If FBISD invested in 9th grade centers to balance enrollment out...all of this overbuilding isn't needed

if FBISD would have the guts and rezone right...not a big need right now.....you got one school, Willowridge, with enough space to accomodate 1,500 more students which would alleviate overcrowding at Hightower. It didn't take long for FBISD to break Willowridge up but they sure haven't come back with a way to bring it back either... FBISD also builds small high schools which creates this mess...I drove by Travis one day and Seven Lakes in Katy ISD a few minutes later......why is Travis so small when Seven Lakes is so massive and they are less than 10 minutes from each other? In another 5 years, FBISD taxpayers will be on the board once again doing another high school

HBCU's were designed to serve a purpose and that purpose is still needed in my opinion....blacks technically weren't attractive to the big state schools until they found a way to exploit us through athletic endeavors and that holds true to this day. If you can run the ball, pass the minimum NCAA standards (way lower than the standard admission) you have a free ticket to A&M and UT while the kid who bust his butt with a GPA not high enough to gain an academic 'ship is left in the cold. To make matters worse, UT and A&M have majors designed for athletes to keep them eligible which doesn't even belong in some schools. If those schools were admitting blacks in by those standards who can't run the ball then I have no problem and will say maybe some HBCUs could change missions. However, that's not happening

Richard...keep spoiling your kids and send them to schools where reality isn't the norm....I just hope you aren't black... TSU provided my father with an education, he owns a successful business nearing the 30-year mark and my mom and I received an HBCU education and are doing just fine... Problem with TSU is they use the buddy system in hiring and that's what got them in trouble....whites still have an influence in their board selections and created the mess they are in now. You get what you pay for...

HISD bent the rules and counted hispanics as whites during integration...their no better... The NF we see now isn't the NF of old...I know some successful folks who came out the district...but they had pride then...if your school/district has pride, nine times out of 10 things change

as to who gets the kids is the question...some districts might not want the extra burden and you got to also think you have people who will lose jobs as a result of the merger... as funny as it sounds, blacks have suffered as a result of integration as the better black schools were forced to close and merged in with white schools and the better teachers were split up all over the place. I'm not advocating segragation but looking at the results of it blacks haven't benefited as much as some would think. Areas that were strong weakened overnight and you look at growth patterns now whites still are isolated in large concentrations outside the city...

it's North Forest..what do you expect? The whites left NFISD years ago, the blacks who could leave checked out after that and migrated to Humble and your left with a different type of parent/student now.

MLK High....we don't have one in the Houston area..lol

Watkins' clinic was/is off of South Post Oak by Windsor Village...he also had healthcare products in a factory that adjoins the site...Watkins also owned UW Entertainment Center off of Almeda But his first house was in Briargate behind me and it was a regular house but he added on to it and it had flourescent lighting in it... didn't know he splurged like that.......