I will also continue to rebut ’shallow’ suggestions that our hometown schools are not worth the trouble and should simply be dismantled.

HPISD has 0 (zero) students who are economically disadvantaged. 0.8% of its students are Limited English Proficient.

83.9% of DISD students are economically disadvantaged and 31.2% are LEP.

I would say that these statistics have more to do with students’ reading abilities than whatever teaching methods are being used by each district.

Of the 150,000 kids you cite, only a small percentage will graduate from high school. For that matter, many will not be reading by the 8th grade.

The district doesn’t need to be subdivided. It needs to be dismantled. Large districts = more bureaucrats.

DISD is the only local operation that makes the City of Dallas look efficient.

At a Townhall meeting last night, Dr. Flores, Adam Medrano & Jerome Garza did a sales job on about 30 residents. Dr. Flores touted the scholarships some graduates are getting and the success of the magnet schools.

A lady in the room, said “That’s great, but you need to come back to our real world where kids aren’t graduating from high school.” Dr. Flores responded to stop worrying about high school graduation and focus on college acceptance. You know, set your standards higher – pull everybody up.

Just a bunch of baloney, and no one in the room bought it.

5. Perhaps the private schools have these above average faciliites due to their enormous fundraisers they hold every year. I was at a private school auction where a puppy sold for $27,000 and they raised over $1 million. As an active fundraiser I applaud them, it’s hard work I know. However we don’t have pockets like that, nor do we have the corporate support on a local school level. Many corporations do support our district on a district-wide level, for scholarship help, work study, tutoring help, etc. (Thank you, thank you, thank you).

1. Sure it doesn’t matter how many Lynacre campuses this creates, as long as it is in someone else’s district. Why don’t we take it one step farther and seperate the tax payments made by people in each mini-district? If someone is paying big bucks on their million dollar home, why should it go to some school down in South Dallas (note tongue in cheek).

2. DISD is not holding the audit back, the auditors are. How can DISD release something that they have not been given. Do you want it fast or do you want it right?

3. When Wick refers to “we” and “our” kids that are failing (note beginning of blog above), some of us see him as an outsider to Dallas schools considering he lives in HP. So in what reference is he referring to these kids? Our solutions are not going to come from an HP model of success. Not to mention that if we did raise the money to carpet our sports fields, the amount of shi* we would take for diverting those funds from educational purposes would be longer than this current blog.

4. Nope, not that Maverick, different one (which is why I didn’t say we have two Mavericks in our neighborhood), don’t know if he has kids but would welcome him into our schools.

5. Low blow, bad form, she’s entitled to her choices.

I’m glad that you can read just fine.

The percentage of children currently and formerly in DISD that cannot read is way too high. Whatever that number is needs to be compared to HPISD’s number which is ZERO.

We are not talking about DISD children from homes with well educated and involved parents. The school is these childrens only shot evidently and all that I am saying is that there is a system that seems to work regardless of the childs circumstance.

Something tells me that if they tried to take that system out of HPISD and replace it with one that has a 50% failure rate, the concerned parents would have something to say about it. The DISD parents deserve the same opportunity. They would have it with smaller districts.

2. VOTE NO – Until the DISD releases its audit and put forth a bond program to benefit all parts of the district and get rid of all portables VOTE NO!

3.Amy S. If you want carpets on your kids sports fields – then go out and raise the money from corporations or other individuals the same way HP does.

4. Amy S. As for the Maverick that lives in your neighborhood – if it is who I think it is, he has since moved to another neighborhood and will not send his kids to the DISD as he homes schools them.

5. I don’t care what anyone says, go tour the private schools and see what they have to offer compared to the public schools such as technology, facilities, etc…

6. The principal of Woodrow does not send her daughter to the DISD, and instead uses private school. That basically says it all for me.