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thank you sequ i said the same thing
Yes...900 for the whole school.
They go to Northwood Elementary now... enrollment there is just a little over 300. I love that school, there's very heavy parent involvement & the PTA meetings are always SRO. Plus, there's a lot of money there so they get a lot of nice things for the classrooms and playground...
That's how ours is. Big PTA involvement and we make a ton of money! I should know since I'm the Treasurer!
We are about 99% sure we're going to buy a lot this week and will be in the Medina Valley school district. We probably won't build for a few years, but that area is growing like crazy so I'm sure they will be adding new schools.
thank you sequ i said the same thing
Is that where the development is that you posted the link and asked about the lcoation?
Yes, it is in Mico and is about 10 miles from 1604/Culebra.
back when i went to reagan i think it was only about 2300...that was the first two years...
Northside ISD is building another school at Kyle Seale and Bab .
I believe they revealed the name of the new high school either yesterday or the day before.
It was named after a judge from the early 1900's I believe.
Bat, I thought we talked about this back in the Quattro...I thought we agreed on no more rude remarks about Reagan...
, I helped open Reagan. 3rd graduating class baby, '02!!!
GO RATTLERS!!
By the way, I think my graduating class was 570 somethin. You shoulda seen Churchill my freshman year(98-99), I left that cuz it was so crowded, I could actually breathe in the hallways at Reagan, it was nice...
What year did you graduate?
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No joke.
I can remember going to Cornerstone as a kid and it being in the "boonies."
Now it looks like this.
I've been happy with the NEISD schools too. We've been really lucky...not only were the schools my kids attented good academically, keeping my kids challenged, but they had/have good music programs. (That's not consistent across all the schools)
You live in the same area as I do. My next door neighbor's daughter started out at Stone Oak for K-3rdd then they opened Hardy Oak so she was tranferred there for 4-6. Then her son went to Hardy Oak for K-2 and this year had to tranfer to the newly opened Wilderness Oak elementary. We were lucky and my daughter got to attend Hardy Oak the whole time we lived here while she was in elementary.
Last Night my husband, daughter and I went to the course fair and parent night for incoming freshman. That place was packed. They said enrollment next year will be around 3700. The school is supposed to house around 2500.
After the presentations about regular, pre-AP, AP and GT classes we went around to kiosks that were set up for all of the electives to pick up info. It was like being at a rock concert. Wall to wall people and you could barely breathe. You couldn't even get to the tables. It was ridiculous. With about nine hundred incoming freshman and their parents last night there were well over 2,000 people stuffed in that auditorium.
I'm not sure I'm ready for this. I remember registering her for kindergarten.
I hear ya. Judson had 5,000 when my daughter went through there. We now have Wagner, but both schools, might I say all three schools are tight. We have Judson Red, now only 12th grade, Judson Gray, 9-11 and Wagner, 9-11 with next year bringing their first senior class. Rumor has it that Judson will go back to Red, 11&12 and Gray, 9&10 next year as it's been for 15 years. We cannot open new schools fast enough for the growth in this city.
Ok, just found out the name of the new NISD high school
Louis D. Brandeis High School.
Named after a United States Supreme Court Justice.
Brandeis HS Locator Map
The new high school is being built close to Stinson MS ( Kyle Seale Parkway and Loop 1604) and the new Northside Natatorium, which is part of the Dub Farris Athletic Complex. Extensions to DeZavala and Kyle Seale roads are also being constructed for the new school.
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Well ... I'll be off to our Garner orientation in just a few minutes...
Awww...Have funWell ... I'll be off to our Garner orientation in just a few minutes...
So...? After-action report?
It was too weird & I felt old. Garner is across from my back yard, basically...and I drive by it pretty much every day. But I haven't actually been inside there since 8th grade basketball ... 20-something years ago.
Just wait until your now-6th grader is doing choice sheets for high school...
2Blonde- My dad teaches at SVHS. If your daughter continues in the AP track (which as a college admissions counselor, I loathe on principle), she'll take my dad for US History or Government her junior or senior year. Heh.
As for crowded schools, this may help put things in perspective- last year in Houston (well, The Woodlands, to be most accurate) The Woodlands High School had a graduating class of over 1100 students and 65 of them were tied for valedictorian.
Out of curiosity...why do you loathe the AP track?
Because most AP classes are crap. They teach to a test, and the students get credit, but are not adequately prepared for the next level. And AP English essays are not the same as freshmen level essays, at least in Honors (were I work). Dual credit is much the same. This isn't true of every AP class or teacher - in fact, history is generally well taught. For instance, when I was taking my freshmen history courses in college, I'd be studying for a test, and call my dad to ask about something specific (make sure I had the details right on the consequences of the War of 1812 and the burning of Washington) and he'd be in exactly the same place with his AP class.
We always sort of shudder when we see a lot of AP and Dual Credit, because the kids are in a hurry to get through and rarely well prepared to jump into the next higher class.
Well, in my oldest daughter's case, I advised her that even though she is taking AP Bio this year, that she would be wise to take the freshman level class anyway...seeing as how it is going to be her major. Her other classes, on the other hand...no.
I must say her English AP teacher seems to be running them pretty hard...
I am curious as well, Easjer? As far as continuing in the AP track, after a full year of all Pre AP & AP courses she is pretty tired. So in 9th grade she is going to take only AP geometry for a break. She is in her second year of Latin right now and it's killing her. She's got a tough course load for an 8th grader and it's burning her out. We are encouraging her to enjoy her freshman year and take courses she can make good grades in. She is pulling high a "B" average in her honors courses but she always stressed. It shouldn't be that way at 13/14 years old. That's BS
Yeah, my oldest is in all honors classes and he's doing well in them, but what irks me is that because he's in GT also, his reading teacher expects more from the kids that are.
A lot of people have told me to pull him out out of honors once he reaches high school. We'll see...
Be careful about pulling out of honors in high school. I'm not saying that there isn't more work involved in those classes, just that the quality of work produced by those classes is not equal to college coursework, despite what they may tell you, at least generally speaking. This is not true in all cases (my AP teacher worked us to the bone and everyone who took the test passed with flying colors).
Please note though that I deal with a specific subset of college applications, and that we are much more demanding of our students than a regular program would be. I've sat on our admissions committee for 3 years now and in that time, AP and Dual Credit is exploding, but our required essays have gotten worse and the people that we were edgy about putting into our premiere course (which is English, literature, philosophy, history rolled into one) but had to put in because of their previous English credit via AP/DC have not been doing well in the course because they are not adequately prepared. Of course there are lots of others who have AP credit and flourish.
I will add that lots of colleges seek an unweighted GPA, so they will discount Honors and other criteria in the GPA consideration, so that an A in regular English is better than a B in Honors. But that varies by school, so . . .
The main thing is to be sure that your child knows what a thesis is and can make strong supporting arguments. In theory, they would learn that in AP classes. If you get to know the teacher, you might get a better sense of what materials they cover and if they are actually teaching the basics (which should mean they'll do well on the test) or if they are only teaching about how to pass the test. If it's the latter, skip it.
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