Goslin

LOL, no. Back when BH really was “Country”? Sure, and that’s how a LOT of folks felt back then. Nowadays? Have you taken a look at BH/MB lately? Riceland? Baytown is a working-class Company Town, always has been and always will be regardless of how much time/money our elected officials waste trying to change that. I can’t think of anyone down here that would want to claim MB these days. I guess all the folks so ashamed of who they really are and where they really come from already packed up and moved out there and good riddance. BTW, since you mentioned North Shore, they consider themselves so big now that they claim Highlands, Channelview, McNair, and New Baytown as their suburbs. Where do you think half of that Eastside talent comes from?

TX Senate voted on Thursday to accept the House Bill as-is. Next stop is the Gov’s desk. Should be signed by him into Law sometime next week, I’d guess.

I’ll tell you something else that isn’t getting talked about much but that could really hurt Baytown in the long run. GCCISD has multiple schools with either D or F ratings for 2023. 2024 ratings are still held up in the same appeals court that just ordered the 2023 results released so 2024 is sure to be released pretty soon, and then 2025 results should be out around August. Unless something is done to get those failing campus’ grades up, that’ll be 3 years in a row of at least 1 campus having a failing grade. If any District has a campus with a failing grade for 5 consecutive years, the State is then empowered by law to close that failing campus AND take over the entire District. That’s what happened to HISD. Supt and Board members out on their butts and State appointees in their places. We’re a ways off from that but there’s a good chance that by August we could be looking at 3 years worth of failing grades for one or more of GCCISD’s campuses and only a couple of years away from a State takeover unless those failing grades can be brought up for all those campuses. Below is a quote from the Baytown Sun. ”Goose Creek CISD had 31 campuses receive ratings, with only two, Sterling and IMPACT, getting As. Ten schools received Bs, eight received Cs, seven scored Ds and four schools – Ashbel Smith, Carver and James Bowie Elementarys and the Virtual Academy – received Fs.”

You want to know what the REAL shocker to me was? Not the District ratings but the campus ratings. Barbers Hill High School scored a 90, BUT Baytown Sterling scored a 91. There’s a LOT of stuff in these results if you really dig into them. The methodology is really screwy BUT there’s a lot of data in there. I mean, I’m from Baytown so I figured the “Economically Disadvantaged” numbers would be higher here but man, I think it’s something like 70% District-wide for GCCISD. At REL it’s over 80%. It’s over 60% at RSS and they were the “rich school” until BH came into their own. BH High is like 25% and it’s the same across their District. It’s crazy that RSS received a higher score than BH High even by a single point, considering the disadvantages ANY school in GCCISD has. I don’t know how much stock I’d put in any of these letter grades.

The TX House and Senate have to reconcile their separate versions before sending a combined Bill to Gov. Abbot to sign but that’s easy compared to the House vote this morning. The vote this morning was the last point at which it could have been stopped and it wasn’t. For better or worse, it’s happening.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda, mighta, etc. None of that matters ‘cause it is what it is. I just wish I knew exactly what “it” is and what the ramifications of implementing “it” are gonna be on our ISD. Oh well, not like I’ve got any “School Choice” anyway.

Vouchers passed in the House this morning. There’s a couple more steps but mostly formalities. Looks set to hit the Governor’s desk pretty soon. [Hidden Content]

Likely, but that’s IF those numbers end up being close to that. These are the numbers GCCISD put out there BUT like I said, when they were asked point-blank at their February Board meeting if these numbers were accurate and if GCM was for sure going to be under the 6A threshold they wouldn’t answer either way. It’s a mess and we probably won’t know for sure which way GCM or any other GCCISD school is going until after next season most likely.

They’re not too radical for the High Schools but supposedly they’re trying to reduce GCM’s enrollment around 700 students. RSS would see a 500 student increase and REL around 200. Of course this doesn’t take into account many incoming 9th graders choosing their campus through the various academies. At the Feb Board meeting the question was asked whether or not this rezone would drop GCM down for sure and they didn’t answer that question, just saying that there are other things they can do as well like moving programs around to get that enrollment number down but that even if GCM drops down in ‘26 they’ll be back up permanently in ‘28 or ‘30 at the latest. Long story short, they want to drop GCM down in ‘26 and think they can do it but no guarantees and if they CAN do it, it’ll only last 2-4 years before they’re back in 6A to stay. If that’s the case I say leave them where they are and let them learn to live with it but it’s not up to me. It’s a lot more radical at the elementary and Jr school level. Some Junior Schools have fed into multiple High Schools for a while now. After this, each High School will have 2 Jr Schools which feed exclusively into them. At the Elementary level they’re closing Lamar Elementary and splitting its students between Carver and Ashbel Smith. It isn’t over after this rezone, either. GCCISD is going into year 3 of cuts in ‘25-‘26 and they said at the last meeting that the year after that ‘26-‘27 will be a cut year as well and that’s without taking into account what the Legislature is going to do as far as funding/Vouchers/etc.

When you’re talking 9-5A-D1, remember also that GCCISD is rezoning this summer. GCM might be dropping back down from 23-6A if they can get the numbers low enough. They’d surely want back into 9-5A-1 with RSS. REL in 9-5A-2 in-District with Randle right now would probably like to be able to play up in 9-5A-1 again as well since RSS and GCM were the 2 teams they always beat there, (I actually think REL is doing just fine where they are but that’s just me). There’s gonna be a lot of movement in ‘26.

Yeah, both do. Difference is that at least in Baytown we can admit it.

You haven’t bothered me one bit. You really did it to yourselves and you’re so far up your own 4$$3$ y’all can’t even see it.

You’ve forgotten that even back when The Hill was small the folks there acted like they were all God’s gift. The very definition of Lace Curtain Irish.

I wouldn’t move to Mont Belvieu even if you gave me the nicest McMansion on top of the salt dome and a free lifetime pass to the wave pool. I wouldn’t move there if you paid me twice what yall are paying the dad of that QB you just brought in. I got a better idea, though. Why don’t you come on down here and hang out with us instead. I guarantee you that we’re a lot more fun and it’ll help to remind you how the other half lives, maybe teach you some humility. You know, “Humble in victory, Gracious in defeat”? OK, I’ll admit that some of us have to work on our graciousness still but you have to admit in return that a whole lot of y’all have to work on your humility. One more thing, I don’t vote. I figured since I was from Baytown you’d have already known most of us down here don’t vote but I guess not. A whole lot of us around here used to vote. We’d vote for one thing and then the City would do another, vote for the School Board to do another thing and then they’d do the opposite. Eventually you realize that it doesn’t really matter who or what you vote for, the folks in charge are gonna pretty much do what they’re gonna do. You may not be there yet but you’ll get there soon enough.

“Just messin’ with ya”? Bull. You said what you feel and what a LOT of folks on The Hill feel and say all the time, not just amongst themselves but what they say on social media and right to the faces of the poor folks down here. I’ll bet you just reread your prior post, saw how bad it sounds when you type it out like that for everyone to read so now you come back with “I didn’t really mean it, I was only foolin’, actually it’s Y’ALL who are the haters!” At least be honest and own it. You said what you said, feel the way you feel, so own it. Don’t talk big and then try to walk it back later. You think you’re so much better than everyone else? Well then at least be honest about it, but you can’t because of what you are, what BH is. Just a bunch of haters and bullies who get a kick out of picking on cripples just to make themselves feel bigger and better. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t envy y’all, I pity y’all.