What are the best and worst public school Districts in Texas? Please share any associated stories....

I've heard some very concerning stories about things going on in Methrape ISD.

CSISD is one of the best. And given my location Hearne ISD is worse.

Beer Baron said:

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I've heard some very concerning stories about things going on in Methrape ISD

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They do have one hell of a track team, though.

Good rule of thumb: Avoid [City Name] ISD. [Directional City Name] ISD is probably fine, but still not great. And of course [Suburb With Newish Neighborhoods] ISD will be really good but [Suburb With A Lot Of Apartments In It] ISD will be rapidly descending to the quality [Directional City Name] ISD.

In which case, move farther out.

What about [used to be a farming town in the 90's but now it has 37, 5A high schools] ISD? I've heard good things about them.

Oh, stories...I was born, raised, and taught in CSISD. I am still friends with some of my teachers and my Minnie was also taught by the same teachers. I fed into what TAMU prepared me for, which was 24 hours of school between TAMU & Blinn. CSISD prepared me for the heavy load. (ib4 phrasing).

Hearne kids stay in Hearne.

No, no, no. You want to send your children to the similar community right next door that has one 6A high school with 38,000 students.

Beer Baron said:

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What about [used to be a farming town in the 90's but now it has 37, 5A high schools] ISD? I've heard good things about them.

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The schools are great(tm), although in a few years [junior] maybe has to visit that Sylvan Learning Center in the really nice shopping center because he couldn't quite get the hang of reading for reasons completely unrelated to the way the great school taught reading.

It's important that you keep saying the schools are great.

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What about [used to be a farming town in the 90's but now it has 37, 5A high schools] ISD? I've heard good things about them.

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Everyone heard good things about them and they grew faster than they could keep up with. Too many new schools needed administrators to keep up with the experience level.

We left after our oldest finished kinder and glad we did. They're overrated and we're happier that our kids are where they are now.

You're all wrong. I send my kids to [religion-affiliated] private school. The teachers there are better, and don't try to indoctrinate my kids with SJW thinking. Also, our sports teams are highly ranked, and our polo team has some of the finest horse trainers in the southern US.

I home school because I know my child's learning style. That is something that is not taught by today's standard. Mastery is not learned in school.

Humorous Username said:

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You're all wrong. I send my kids to [religion-affiliated] private school. The teachers there are better, and don't try to indoctrinate my kids with SJW thinking. Also, our sports teams are highly ranked, and our polo team has some of the finest horse trainers in the southern US.

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Consider me intrigued...how's the lacrosse program?

This is a helpful tool:

https://www.schooldigger.com/

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Humorous Username said:

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You're all wrong. I send my kids to [religion-affiliated] private school. The teachers there are better, and don't try to indoctrinate my kids with SJW thinking. Also, our sports teams are highly ranked, and our polo team has some of the finest horse trainers in the southern US.

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Consider me intrigued...how's the lacrosse program?

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the lacrosse program is excellent with top notch coaching and training staff. They have an unspoken rivalry for the number of players they put on the field at Princeton against the number of crew members the rowing team places. The field hockey program at [school name]'s all girl sister school, St. [Female saint] academy won state last year and places over 50% of its members at a seven sisters college on an annual basis.

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I home school because I know my child's learning style. That is something that is not taught by today's standard. Mastery is not learned in school.

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Fyi, learning styles are myth.

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PseudonymK said:

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I home school because I know my child's learning style. That is something that is not taught by today's standard. Mastery is not learned in school.

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Fyi, learning styles are myth.

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Aesthetic, Kinesthetic, Aural, Logical

Really.

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nai06 said:

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PseudonymK said:

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I home school because I know my child's learning style. That is something that is not taught by today's standard. Mastery is not learned in school.

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Fyi, learning styles are myth.

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Aesthetic, Kinesthetic, Aural, Logical

Really.

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Yes, those are all fake and don't really exist. Learning styles in general are a corruption of Gardner's multiple intelligences. But don't feel bad or anything, plenty of teachers and school districts still buy into it. Ultimately there's no scientific proof or data that support learning styles.

You keep thinking that, babe.

Yup, the learning styles thing is as fake as the rigor in Ed schools.

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You keep thing that, babe.

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http://www.pbs.org/parents/expert-tips-advice/2016/03/letting-go-learning-styles/

http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2017/5/25-1

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/need-know-learning-styles-myth-two-minutes/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/13/teachers-neuromyth-learning-styles-scientists-neuroscience-education

Fake news.

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Fake news.

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It's right up there with other myths like left brained vs. right brained.

I can give you more articles and research if you like. Again it's understandable because it's so prevalent in education. There are teachers at my own school that still believe it. Unfortunately it just isn't true

When you can get PBS, Wired, and The Guardian to call BS on an educational fad, it's been nuked into a lovely glass plain. Usually that kind of grumbling is just written off as "critics complain that..."

You are seriously telling me that you could tell me an oven is hot just by a picture versus touching an oven.

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Humorous Username said:

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You're all wrong. I send my kids to [religion-affiliated] private school. The teachers there are better, and don't try to indoctrinate my kids with SJW thinking. Also, our sports teams are highly ranked, and our polo team has some of the finest horse trainers in the southern US.

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Consider me intrigued...how's the lacrosse program?

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the lacrosse program is excellent with top notch coaching and training staff. They have an unspoken rivalry for the number of players they put on the field at Princeton against the number of crew members the rowing team places. The field hockey program at [school name]'s all girl sister school, St. [Female saint] academy won state last year and places over 50% of its members at a seven sisters college on an annual basis.

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I see we have a fellow [religion-affiliated] private school parent. Did you see that the new headmaster, Professor [British Name] the 3rd, got his doctorate from UConn?

We'll be launching a full-scale investigation into why a low-class educator was hired here at [religion-affiliated] private school. My guess is that it was to convince [20-something tech billionaire] that we aren't stuffy in order to get his [totally not gestated within a surrogate mother] future children to enroll here.

Go Crusaders!

Wait, who is that false choice for? Me or that nai06 guy/girl?

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Humorous Username said:

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You're all wrong. I send my kids to [religion-affiliated] private school. The teachers there are better, and don't try to indoctrinate my kids with SJW thinking. Also, our sports teams are highly ranked, and our polo team has some of the finest horse trainers in the southern US.

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Consider me intrigued...how's the lacrosse program?

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the lacrosse program is excellent with top notch coaching and training staff. They have an unspoken rivalry for the number of players they put on the field at Princeton against the number of crew members the rowing team places. The field hockey program at [school name]'s all girl sister school, St. [Female saint] academy won state last year and places over 50% of its members at a seven sisters college on an annual basis.

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I see we have a fellow [religion-affiliated] private school parent. Did you see that the new headmaster, Professor [British Name] the 3rd, got his doctorate from UConn?

We'll be launching a full-scale investigation into why a low-class educator was hired here at [religion-affiliated] private school. My guess is that it was to convince [20-something tech billionaire] that we aren't stuffy in order to get his [totally not gestated within a surrogate mother] future children to enroll here.

Go Crusaders!

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It won't be as big of an issue as you think. [religion-affiliated] school hired an instructor in the maths department 3 or 4 years ago that had his A.B. from Haverford College (acceptable) but his M.A. was from Bennington (big LOL on that one). I think the board of visitors had him "placed" at [local public magnet school that is highly rated but really just for smart minority kids]. This will work out the same way

Let me go farther.

I'm going to describe a figure with 5 points. One is at the top right, one vertex is at the bottom left, and I have no clue how to describe the rest. What does it resemble?

Isn't it obvious that people learn differently?

I'm not going to proclaim exactly how they learn differently, and pay attention to those differences provided your "scientific evidence". I don't learn that way.

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Isn't it obvious that people learn differently?

I'm not going to proclaim exactly how they learn differently, and pay attention to those differences provided your "scientific evidence". I don't learn that way.

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no not really. At the most basic level, learning is making new neural connections. How you do that doesnt really change from person to person. The idea for learning styles is that if we match the way we teach a topic to the style of learning that you prefer, you will achieve a greater mastery of said topic and do so in a more efficient manner. Unfortunately the research doesn't support that at all. If you are an auditory learner, you should always learn better when information is presented in an audio format. That falls apart when you want to learn about something like color or describe the location of a country.

Heres a good video that breaks it down



And here are some resources debunking the myth of learning styles.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3.pdf

https://theeffortfuleducator.com/2017/07/17/learning-myths-vs-learning-facts



http://psychlearningcurve.org/learning-styles/?utm_source=Psych%2BLearning%2BCurve&utm_campaign=2adffa8b74-myth_vs_facts_july_19_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ff6044c3a5-2adffa8b74-165585873

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0098628315589505

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00461520.2013.804395#.VqGoGDYwNSw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/09/05/most-teachers-believe-that-kids-have-different-learning-styles-heres-why-they-are-wrong/?utm_term=.4989455ba7b0#comments

http://www.danielwillingham.com/learning-styles-faq.html

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/learning-styles-debunked-there-is-no-evidence-supporting-auditory-and-visual-learning-psychologists-say.html

The people yacking about learning styles on this thread are really killing the fun.

blindey said:

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The people yacking about learning styles on this thread are really killing the fun.

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But someone is wrong on the internet

Meh. Bryan ISD kicked me out because I was always mistaken for a student. Kids are big.

If you live in a rich area, you're isd is probably good. If it's poor, probably not. Rule of thumb to live by. Also, if Asians or Indians make up a large percentage, probably good but you won't work as hard as them. It's a proven fact.