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t1_jcc4t21 wrote

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I am a local and fairly well educated on it as a lay person and parent. It is a complicated issue. HISD is extremely diverse and big. Some of the best high schools in the nation are in HISD and some that perpetually underperform are also in the district.

A lot of the issue comes down to what metrics are being measured and what can realistically be expected of a school that has all the problems of entrenched poverty and unstable living situations for the students’ families.

I do personally think there is a bit of politics involved because the state TEA is much more conservative than the district leadership in the large districts in the state. They made a set of school accountability metrics that I think most schools with high poverty issues would have is struggles meeting and waited for HISD to not pass the thresholds.

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t1_jcdgn43 wrote

True, except Wheatley is the only one out of 267 schools that failed, and it has since met the states own metrics albeit after it failed for numerous years in a row.

I will say it's not that complicated. If you want to fix the problemed schools, then we need to fix the communities that they serve. But the state has no interest in investing in poor, minority communities.

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t1_jcce90m wrote

Lmao HISD is known for being terrible and corrupt.

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t1_jcdgv45 wrote

Every district has its problems. Hell,bthe TEA and State government are also known for being corrupt and terrible.

But I bet you most of those kids in hisd would surprise you regarding what they know.

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