Goslin

You forget, old man, that those changes from UIL didn’t go into effect until today and like I said in my prior comment, I’m sure any moving around happened back between March and May. Swing, and a miss… Not that I’m confident that much of anything will really change after today, regardless of the lip service UIL pays it, we’ll just have to see. It’s a fact, though, that Aug 1 was the start date for those changes.

I bet they won’t, no one ever seems to, and no one from the DEC ever seems to say a word. Isn’t just Baytown either, it’s that way all over the State. You ought to ask Dr Poole about that since he’s been on the UIL Legislative Council for the past couple decades as well as sits on the same DEC as RSS since both BH and RSS are in 9-5A-1. How come no one ever checks those PAPFs like you want them to, old man? That’s a good question for you to ask him. Let us know what he says in reply.

Mostly before, I’d say, following Coach Anthony over after he was hired for RSS.

So you’re covering 9-5A-1 but not 9-5A-2?

I wouldn’t say REL is “on the rise” per se. I’d say that it’s more like they’ve consistently beaten low expectations due to superior coaching and superior development of the kids they have walking their halls. Take a look at their last few seasons compared to the other 2 High Schools in GCCISD, both of which have far more resources and more District support. You’re right about Coach Sutterfield. Played for Coach Stewart at Dayton High, for ETBU and SFA in college, came back to Dayton to coach under Stewart before coming to REL under Finn. He looks like a solid dude and is Finn’s handpicked replacement. We’ll see if he can keep it going. I hope he can, I’d hate to see REL go the way GCM/RSS have.

Well, the one tiny ray of hope is that it isn’t just anyone “coming in” from the outside. It’s Finn’s assistant HFC for the last few years taking the reins. Finn waited long enough before tendering his resignation that GCCISD had no time to post the position/hire a replacement. Baytown Sun reported it wrong, Sutterfield isn’t the Interim Coach, he’s the HFC/AD at REL going forward. It ain’t much of a ray of hope, but it’s something. Hell, at least REL was on the field as the freight train rolled by this morning getting their work in as usual ahead of this coming season. I hear GCM took the week off so their whole staff could go to the Coaches Convention. Really shows where their priorities lie.

Sutterfield isn’t just the interim, he’s the new HFC. The Sun knows and cares more about what happens in Barber’s Hill than they do about what happens in Old Baytown and it shows. They told the players a week or so before it made the paper but I suspect it’s been in the works for a lot longer. I think Finn waited as late as he did just to make sure GCCISD didn’t have a chance to hire someone else in. Sutterfield was his right-hand man at REL the last few seasons and I think that’s why his DC who came with Finn to REL was trying to get the GCM job and did get the RSS job, (he already knew when those jobs popped up he wouldn’t be taking over for Finn at REL this summer). So now GCM’s HFC is former REL OC, RSS’ HFC is former REL DC, REL gave up a bunch of assistants to both programs to keep them afloat this season. Folks talk all the time about consolidation but at this point all 3 Baytown programs have a REL coaching staff so we’re already halfway there.

GCM would be my answer. 0-10 last year. They share a District with North Shore, Atascocita, Summer Creek, C.E. King, Humble, Kingwood, and then Channelview on the bottom with them. The only team in their District they had any chance of beating last season was the Channelview game and of course they lost to them too but other than that CV game all their District games were extreme beat downs from some of the best in the state, at least 2 of which were nationally ranked and surely will be again this year. Now, THAT’S a tough schedule.

Their problems are bigger than that. PISD enjoyed spending other folks money so much that before they knew it they’d gone ahead and built one too many high schools, and a “Memorial” High School at that! Reminds me of another little refinery town ISD I know that had too much fun spending other folks money…

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They were 6th graders in the last week of school so average age of 12. They were also in the “Preathletics” program rather than a regular PE class so they all intend to participate in athletics in 7th grade and I’m assuming a lot of them for 🏈 which would explain why the kids would push themselves that hard. This guy is a former local HS football stud and one of their football coaches and with summer Strength&Conditioning coming up and then 7th grade ball once school starts I’m sure these kids were telling themselves they had to do it to stay on Coach’s good side for playing time, roster spots, etc.

Looks like there might be more to it. [Hidden Content]

New HFC for Baytown Sterling is former REL DC Spencer Anthony. So now GCM’s HFC is a former REL OC and RSS’ HFC is a former REL DC. You think eventually GCCISD would just consolidate the programs since the coaching staffs are all-REL anyway.

Gov Abbott signed it into law last Saturday. Done deal.

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.