Letters Being Sent to REL Students

[Guest UHCoog14]

http://baytownsun.com/sports/article_f1d844a8-3d7d-11e1-8619-0019bb2963f4.html


[b]Parents of Robert E. Lee High School students should be on the look out for a letter from the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District. The letter will explain, or attempt to explain, a sad situation in Baytown.

Lee has been given an “Unacceptable Rating” from the Texas Education Agency.  Students who currently are attending schools with an “Unacceptable Rating” have the opportunity to transfer to another school. GCCISD athletic director Tom Ed Gooden said it is part of the Public Education Grant.[/b]

This could have a deeper impact on REL than just losing students and athletes.

[BLUEDOVE3]

Barbers Hill maybe would benefit from this?

[Guest UHCoog14]

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Barbers Hill maybe would benefit from this?
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More likely the kids that elect to transfer will do so within GCCISD. However, they can go anywhere they can provide their own transportation.


http://www.uiltexas.org/policy/info/public-education-grant-peg-transfers-and-varsity-athletic-eligibility

Public Education Grant (PEG) Transfers and Varsity Athletic Eligibility
The UIL State Executive Committee has issued the following interpretations of HB 318 of the 75th Texas Legislature regarding Public Education Grant (PEG) Intradistrict and Interdistrict Transfers (Low Performing to campus with Acceptable Rating):

A student who transfers from a campus identified under the Public Education Grant (PEG) Program to a new school, which is considered to be a non-PEG campus, may be eligible according to the UIL residence rule (Section 440 ) provided the student is in compliance with the following provisions:

•The transfer complies with the conditions cited in annual memo from TEA.
•The student transferred from the PEG identified campus to the non-PEG campus at their first opportunity to do so. In this case "opportunity to do so" is determined by notification to parents of the student that the school the student is leaving has been PEG identified. School officials at the non-PEG campus must be advised that the student is transferring for PEG purposes prior to enrollment.
•The Previous Athletic Participation Form is completed and the UIL district executive committee finds the student did not change schools for athletic purposes. School officials at the non-PEG campus shall inform students who are eligible for varsity athletics their first year after transferring from PEG identified campus that if they elect to transfer to another school they will be ineligible at the school to which they transfer for all varsity athletics for at least one calendar year. We recommend written notification to the student and parents.
The fact that a non-PEG campus begins to accept PEG transfers after the first year a campus has first been identified as a PEG campus does not cause a student to be eligible for varsity athletics the first year of attendance at the non-PEG campus.

[BLUEDOVE3]

But you have to admit, its an outlet for athletic purposes as well ;)

[Guest UHCoog14]

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But you have to admit, its an outlet for athletic purposes as well ;)
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No doubt.

[Go-rilla]

This is embarassing!

[Eagle11]

I believe this is the beginning of the end for Lee, as much as I hate to see it. I believe this is a step in Baytown going back to a 2 school system. The talent in Baytown is too diluted with 3 schools.

[pngfan66]

IF that is the possible case then the 2 schools would probably both be 5A. I know RSS is 5A but is GCM's numbers still 4A ?

[WOSgrad]

[quote name="pngfan66" post="1160495" timestamp="1326636458"]
IF that is the possible case then the 2 schools would probably both be 5A. I know RSS is 5A but is GCM's numbers still 4A ?
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GCM is still in 4A, but they are growing.  The number GCM submitted in October (1881) is a 230 student jump over the number used for the current alignment (1646)

[gary-us-bonds]

Never needed to go to three schools in the first place.
Very poor leadership in Baytown.  No vision for the future.  No idea of what to do to make it better.

[Cougtalk]

No Offense to Sterling but if i as a parent had the opportunity to send my kid to BH instead of Lee i would do so in a heart beat.

[Guest UHCoog14]

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No Offense to Sterling but if i as a parent had the opportunity to send my kid to BH instead of Lee i would do so in a heart beat.
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They will send them to GCM. Those people that want to go to BH will move to Mt Belvieu.

[ItzGood]

The schools at GCM and BH are not very far apart are they, 3-4 miles?

[Guest UHCoog14]

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The schools at GCM and BH are not very far apart are they, 3-4 miles?
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Yes.