Is Field magnet now? 4 years ago it was out backup as they had space available but not magnet program and we would have been fine with our kids there. Only downside for us was the location.htxag09 said:
I have family zoned to Love but did the lottery program to get into Field. It was stressful, pretty sure they just ended up going in person to get in. Their second is a couple years from kinder so kind of starting to stress about it again.
We moved to be zoned to OFE so we wouldn't have to worry about it, until middle school at least....
My coworkers here in Katy don't like how competitive 7 Lakes is and kids w/ comparable GPA to my daughter in Alvin are in the bottom 1/3 at 7 Lakes while my daughter is top 20%. I guess having involved parents that are high earners usually leads to better grades as the other kids are too poor to pay attention.Captain Winky said:
So you are saying a public school is more competitive than a private school with kids who have parents who are high enough earners to send their kids to private school? Wouldn't the average rich kid be smarter than your average public school kid?
Also, what is stressful about the lottery? Do you apply once and if you don't get your choice of school your kid is stuck at your crappy zoned school for good? Is it one and done or can you apply for the lottery every year?
Back when I was in a Katy ISD HS I remember a few kids switching over to private school after the first set of class rankings came out so that they could have a better chance at being in a higher percentile. There also were a fair amount who thought they should be starters on the varsity baseball team that went to private schools to get playing time.drumboy said:My coworkers here in Katy don't like how competitive 7 Lakes is and kids w/ comparable GPA to my daughter in Alvin are in the bottom 1/3 at 7 Lakes while my daughter is top 20%. I guess having involved parents that are high earners usually leads to better grades as the other kids are too poor to pay attention.Captain Winky said:
So you are saying a public school is more competitive than a private school with kids who have parents who are high enough earners to send their kids to private school? Wouldn't the average rich kid be smarter than your average public school kid?
Also, what is stressful about the lottery? Do you apply once and if you don't get your choice of school your kid is stuck at your crappy zoned school for good? Is it one and done or can you apply for the lottery every year?
You pick up to 10 schools and are given priority randomly and it takes several months to work your way down as kids select other schools. We were very high for all of our selections but went from over 30 to having a spot at Harvard quickly just before the deadline.
No kidding. CFISD had a total of 26 semifinalist across the entire district.Aggie71013 said:
That seven lakes number is wild.
1/3 Asian nowAggie71013 said:
That seven lakes number is wild.
YMMV but I think for most parents the downside of their kids being at a bad school and hanging out with the "wrong peer group" FAR outweighs the benefits of an easier path to top 10%.Diggity said:
Don't disagree with any of this.
Would still make a lot more sense to magnet into a less competitive public school than pay big $'s for a crappy private school.
I knew folks that did this year's ago. I'm sure it's still a thing.
I have a co-worker very seriously thinking about sending his daughter to Waltrip so she can dominate academicallySerotonin said:
Some public schools have Tiger mom parents and (let's be real) 1st or 2nd gen Asian kids who will outwork anyone on academics. All they do is study.
W said:I have a co-worker very seriously thinking about sending his daughter to Waltrip so she can dominate academicallySerotonin said:
Some public schools have Tiger mom parents and (let's be real) 1st or 2nd gen Asian kids who will outwork anyone on academics. All they do is study.
currently at Black
that's why you wait until the last year to move them over. Less chance of contamination.Serotonin said:YMMV but I think for most parents the downside of their kids being at a bad school and hanging out with the "wrong peer group" FAR outweighs the benefits of an easier path to top 10%.Diggity said:
Don't disagree with any of this.
Would still make a lot more sense to magnet into a less competitive public school than pay big $'s for a crappy private school.
I knew folks that did this year's ago. I'm sure it's still a thing.
They are not.Quote:
not sure if other private schools are as crazy rigorous
this is a huge difference maker. The PTO can fill in a lot of the budget gaps that the schools have.TAMUAG07 said:
We have a 3rd and 1st grader at Sinclair and we have been very happy with it so far. Our kids' teachers have been great every year. We are actively involved in PTO and volunteer to help out at the school as much as we can. There is a lot of parent support which makes a big difference. We plan to go to Black Middle School but can't commit to Waltrip unless it changes drastically.
All of this changes though if we start to see a teacher exodus from Sinclair due to the new HISD policies and procedures.
Our school also has a separate "Foundation" that raises a bunch of money independently of the school and PTO. It's a huge help.Quote:
this is a huge difference maker. The PTO can fill in a lot of the budget gaps that the schools have.
yep - where I live there's an elementary school smack dab in the middle of the area and 2 private schoolsrilloaggie said:This partly describes my neighborhood. There are 4 elementary schools in the "super neighborhood" and they all look nothing like the neighborhood. The schools average out to 49% black, 35% hispanic, and 7.5% white. The neighborhood is 24% black, 20% hispanic, and 47% white. I'm obviously excluding the "other" ethnic categories for simplicity's sake. The schools also average 83% free/reduced lunch kids while the median income in the neighborhood is well above the numbers to qualify for that. From what I can tell from school signs in yards and talking with neighbors, folks in my hood either do private, homeschool, or move to Spring Branch ISD when it's time to put the kids in school. The only people who look to be sending the kids to HISD are the folks in apartments.southwestag said:
And in some cases you have schools sitting in a neighborhood where none of the students who live across the street will attend whatsoever cause the school mixes in with tons of folks coming from apartment complexes which skews demographics
Furlock Bones said:
Burb school things
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Aggie71013 said:
That seven lakes number is wild. TAMS is at UNT in Denton so not sure it belongs on this list.
