KDOSullivan

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1103502" timestamp="1320352172"] Boy, it didn't take yall too long did it? [/quote] Blue Dove, your a bright man, you seriously didn't see this coming? There has been a build up for weeks....

Going to be on the actual campus, not a stadium, later this week....I am a grad and I'm sort of curious how much or how little has changed. ( It's been 7-8 yrs since I've been on campus.)

It is people in Indiana with too much time on their hands....It was on the news on Dallas radio this afternoon.

Interesting story. They are wanting to join the Southland Conf. [Hidden Content]

They could be at least giving us the score...

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1054216" timestamp="1315689950"] I can certainly relate to the issues Fox 4 is having in trying to get the game on air. Having been involved with the KFDM/CW live broadcasts these last two years, I understand their issues and I am quite sure they are working hard to get the game on the air. Hopefully they can get the game on air before too much of the game has been played. You can listen to the game at KLVI.com. [/quote] But, unfortunately, this is the type of stuff we have come to expect from Ch. 4 over the years.....at one time Channel 4 was THE station to watch. and I so hoped that it would come back as a contender, but it hasn't.

Well, typical, they can't get the game on......they're now showing a an infomercial for some hair deal.....

I can't get excited about it...we beat a school with 600 kids.

[quote name="tvc184" post="1046444" timestamp="1314929569"] It looks like a mid range TS with not a lot of rain on the west side of it. Unless it takes an unexpected hard turn the to the west, we might not get but a couple of showers and some wind gusts. [/quote] Yes, Lee has disappointed me. I was hoping for a good bit of rain.

Both will be in the HOF.....First Ballot, no, neither played in New York or Boston. Thome might get in before Jones because he played in Chicago for a while.....so much of the HOF is politics. Biggio will get in the HOF but it will be about 5-10 years after he is eligible. Once again, he played in Houston and the New York sportswriters could care less about anyone from Houston.

Here we go.....just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.... Could it be to get Houston in the AL West???? [Hidden Content]

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Does anyone know what in the world happened to Billy Bryant?

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I am upset with this trade maybe more than Pence....I could see Bourn in CF and lead-off for a number of yrs to come...But, it ain't gonna happen.... :(

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Got to looking at the standings of all Astro's minor league clubs.....From Rookie to AAA. They are all in last place in their leagues. ( The only one I could not figure out was the Dominican Rookie League. The one I saw online was in Spanish, and my high school Deutch does me no good there.) Is this something for us to look forwards too???? :-\

How don't know how it would work.....I voted for the show from one TV station and the host from a 2nd TV station... :-\

You know what the sad part is, there are idiots who are blaming him for Vince Young on the Chronicle comments.......That's like blaming me for my ex-students who are now in Huntsville.

I was informed that former Buna Head Coach and AD, now school board member Ted Bullard has passed away.

When he was in Houston, my wife or my brother and I always went and saw him pitch. ( I always went and saw Charlie Hough when I lived in Ft Worth, and Hough was with Texas. )Just something about knuckle-ball pitchers. [Hidden Content]

[quote name="GOP - Anti Intellectual, Science, and Women Since Forever" post="1017400" timestamp="1307639962"] Hey guys, seen there's a few special offers for some tractors right now. Figured I'd alert my fellow Texans in preparation for the new harvesting season [Hidden Content] ;D [/quote] You know, one of my neighbors actually is in an agricultural businessman( AKA Farmer and Rancher). Might be the brightest man I have ever met. He hates John Deere equipment. Talked me into a Kubota, and so far, I've been please.

I am familiar with Nederland ISD, and they are going to soon rather than later need to pass a bond. There are buildings in pretty poor shape in the district. I know Smitty thinks this isn't so, but I have been to meetings in some of their schools in recent years and they need some work. Look, I taught for years at a school that had a light pole between the visitor's side and the football field at the 50 yard line. Heck, they were proud of it being there. Will they eventually need a new football field? Sure. But right now, the light pole stays. The high school I taught in has parts built during the Truman  Administration. The district is going to have to look seriously at either a new school or a total refurbishment. It's coming. Everyone knows it, they are just waiting until the economy gets better. ( And the way it looks it might be a bit longer than expected.) Look Smitty, no one wants to pay more taxes, but eventually NISD will need a bond or you can do what old Orange ISD did, declare yourself broke and let PAISD or BISD take over.

[quote name="dawgnut" post="1016714" timestamp="1307367611"] Lol, not in America. We don't put up with politics in our schools. [/quote] Esp. with kids concerned getting into NHS, there shouldn't be, but as you said, there is....The other school politics is well, a given.... ::) ::)

[quote name="dawgnut" post="1016670" timestamp="1307326618"] [quote author=PN-G bandkid link=topic=84302.msg1016434#msg1016434 date=1307230685] [quote author=smitty link=topic=84302.msg1016425#msg1016425 date=1307225483] Maybe, like ol' Smitty has been saying, too much emphasis has been put on non-priority things!  I remember a couple of years ago we gave the HC a 17,000 dollar raise because he threaten to go to LaMarque.  We didn't really have the money but it was given anyway.  Foolish decision!  Would they have done the same for a teacher that threatens to leave?  I think not!   So, if KDOSullivan is right, the people with blinders on, like NHS and Penny -- you'll become a dollar one day! -- will understand that what they believe is causing NISD to become just mediocre academically!   [quote author=KDOSullivan link=topic=84302.msg1016315#msg1016315 date=1307194088] [quote author=James Mosley link=topic=84302.msg1016084#msg1016084 date=1307094689] Penny is dead on right with everything. Sad to say but I tell young men we hire who are moving into our area with family to raise their kids somewhere besides Nederland. Currently Nederland does not understand how to prepare for the future. Very sad. [/quote] This is just from the few kids we see transfer to my "former" rural district. About 5 years ago now, we had a small influx of kids transfer from Nederland to the district. The district I was in was 2A, in a rural setting. It has an "open" enrollment, and there is no out of district tuition charged. The kids generally lived with a relative or even drove to the school. Most would say " We had to get out of there." I was surprised at how far behind the kids were academically. I don't know what is going on there, but a kid who transferred from Nederland with A's and B's, would make B's and C's in our district. The kids would even make comments at how "hard" we were. I don't know what is going on there, I had always thought of Nederland ISD as good district, but in the last 5 years, I have changed my mind. It makes me wonder????? [/quote] [/quote] No, the extracurricular budget doesn't have anything to do with it. Nederland is hurting academically because, frankly, Nederland's policies allow it. For instance, exemption policies at Nederland allow students to exempt a mid-term or final with as low as a 70 average and I believe all Nederland students, underclassmen included, are allowed to exempt all classes all of the time as long as that requirement is met. PN-G, on the other hand, only allows underclassmen to exempt three classes per semester without repeating an exemption in a class for the second semester (with special circumstances applying to math and science classes based on TAKS scores) and only allows students to exempt classes in which their averages are at 80 or above. Another difference between NISD and other districts is the condition of facilities. Students tend to focus better and give more effort in clean, well-kept environments. As has been said a dozen or so times in this thread alone, Nederland's schools are in bad shape. That has an effect on student morale and focus. Examples of this concept can be found by comparing NISD with districts that have kept their facilities in good shape over the years and even within NISD itself; Nederland's academics have fallen behind while NISD's band and theatre groups have excelled in their new facilities. Another factor in academic success is extracurricular participation. Studies have shown that students who participate in extracurricular activities have better grades, better conduct, and a higher level of focus than students who do not. Although NISD does have some award-winning extracurricular programs, such as the band and Westernaires, NISD's extracurricular groups are not as big or as numerous as those of many other schools of similar size. I would argue (and bear in mind that this is an outside perspective) that about half of NHS students participate in at least one extracurricular activity - a portion which could be much larger if the right steps were taken. Standards and curriculum difficulty also come into play. [color=red]I know that Nederland's chapter of the National Honors Society grants automatic membership to anyone with a 3.75 GPA or higher[/color]. Other schools typically add in an application process of some sort that requires a demonstration of leadership, community service, and success in areas outside of academics; special considerations are also normally given to students in honors classes. Curriculum comes into play in that it appears (again, outside perspective) that NISD has settled for the minimum state requirements. The student that transferred into PN-G that I mentioned earlier talked about how he had never seen many of the things in our reviews and even said at one point that he had written more in our English classes in the two months he was here than he had the whole previous year at Nederland; considering what we had done in those classes up to that point, I feel certain that Nederland is settling for the state minimum providing that he was a good example of Nederland's average honors student. Typically, schools establish a district curriculum that exceeds the state requirements, and they also normally provide extra curriculum resources (NISD may or may not provide them, I'm not sure). Another factor is teacher participation. NHS teachers, for one reason or another, do not seem to sponsor as much outside of the classroom as they could. I remember a conversation with a now retired PN-G teacher in which I asked why Nederland didn't bring as many students to academic competitions as other local schools and his reply was that there just weren't enough Nederland teachers willing to sponsor the different academic events. That shocked me. I was amazed at the fact that Nederland couldn't get enough teachers to volunteer as most of the other schools in our district. I mean no offense to any Nederland faculty members because there are several good, dedicated teachers in NISD, but that, in my opinion, is deplorable. When the teachers won't participate, the problem isn't funding. A simple modification to the teacher contracts could fix that. And for the record, Nederland's revenues may not be as high as PN-G's, but we're a Chapter 41 district. After the state takes our money away each year, we actually have less to work with than NISD. [/quote] You need to check your facts on this one Band Kid, my daughter had a higher GPA than that and she couldn't get in :o [/quote] Unfortunately dawgnut, sometimes politics is involved in admission into NHS. I know there was politics at a school I taught at near Ft Worth.