Hutto (Austin, Howe: homes, preschool, subdivision)

[vermont08]

I will let them know that they could try this. Thanks the info.

[achtungpv]

vermont08, what your niece is experiencing isn't that uncommon in Texas actually. My best friend's wife (blonde hair/blue eyes) grew up in Harlingen down in the Valley and she was threatened on a daily basis starting at a young age for no reason...and it was other girls doing the threatening...she said it was a cultural thing down in the valley get a beat down before you where accepted...and she went to a top private school and not public school. It got so bad that she moved to her grandparents in San Antonio for high school. Another friend taught in AISD at both McCallum and Anderson HS. He spent most of his time in class trying to head off race wars between "east side" bussed in kids and "west side" kids. Texas isn't the happy melting pot a lot of folks on this board try and make it out to be. It has the same problems as everywhere else.

[love roses]

My daughter won't go to Nadine Johnson. She'll go to Cottonwood Creek. But, forgive me for taking this personally, but every time something happens in Hutto, everyone loves to knock it to the ground and jump on it, and say, Oh the whole place is a stinkhole. If I posted the stats for schools in AISD, or had a kid there who needed to be transfered due to a problem, would everyone also stomp into the ground every person who lived in that particular area? From what I read, that's pretty sad that some kids said that to her. I'm not saying that there aren't some choice parents out here, or anywhere for that matter. The price you pay for all the "ethnic diversity" here. My sister lives in the neighborhood where the school you're talking about is. Her daughter is zoned to Ray, but she hasn't gone there yet. She'll go next year. Ray just opened this year, so remains to be seen how it will be. I've got friends with kids in Cottonwood Creek who haven't had ANYTHING bad to say about it. Maybe it's just me, but if my daughter went through something like that, I'd come unglued and be all over somebody's business...the school board, teacher, pta, principal...I'd start jabbering around the neighborhood. And I'm in no way saying they aren't, but I'd only pull her out after all else failed. But again, my sister doesn't like some of the people who have moved into her neighborhood. She was just complaining about all the easy home loans the builders gave out, and now they have so many foreclosures she says its ridiculous. So now, I'm sort of glad we didn't pick that neighborhood. I DO know that at Cottonwood Creek, there is a lot of parent involvement. Wes Sawyer is the president of the School Board here, and he also goes to our church. He's really a good guy at heart, so maybe he should be contacted to see what he can do or get done.

[texastea]

A school has to offer transfers to its students if its rated "unacceptable" or if it has low scores for 2 of the past 3 years. Hutto ISD doesn't have any schools on the PEG list:

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/taa/perfreport121206a1.pdf

Here's the rule from the LISD website:

A student is eligible to receive a public education grant (PEG) or to attend
another public school in the district in which the student resides if
the student is assigned to attend a public school campus:

1. At which 50 percent or more of the students did not perform
satisfactorily on the state-mandated assessments in any two
of the three preceding years; or

2. That was considered academically unacceptable at any time
in the preceding three years.

[another_hot-day]

I still have a hard time imagining K level kids saying things like that.. their parents need to be slapped.

[vermont08]

I can tell you they did. As Susan was not making it up because when my brother and his wife went to the school to ask about it they just said "We do understand she is having some issues here adjusting to being different (white with light hair and blue eyes) here is a list of other schools in the area you may want to consider." The list was just hand written and had names charter and private schools on it.

She has been getting told things like that everyday at school in her class of 5 yr olds (other kids saying they are going to cut/stab her, that her parents must have found her in a trash can, that she is ugly, calling her bad names in Spanish which is really hurtful since my brother has been teaching their kids Spanish and she knew what they were saying, and even more so on the bus with kids ages 5-8 since the first day of school. I was so bad one day that she tried to get off the school bus at another stop because she was crying and the kids would not leave her alone. (before it got to my brother house) The driver stopped from getting off and had her sit in the very first seat the rest of the way and told my brother's wife what happened when she got to their house. Now my sister in law is driving her to school everyday until they try to get her into another school

[jwb123]

I'm sorry, but this just sounds too unbelieveable and out there. For several reasons.

I don't live in Hutto, so perhaps I have a better view of it - but we go there often to shop and eat at one of our favorite restaurants. I have to say, it's mostly caucasian.

Loveroses, is there a section of Hutto that is "different" than what I have seen around the Home Depot, McDonalds, Rio Grande, Texan Cafe area??

My kids are fair and have light hair - they have never had a problem, ever. I can't imagine all this hate being thrown around by 5 yr olds. It just doesn't make sense to me. Sorry.

[mhudson78660]

Here are the stats for the school and Texas. I find this all a little hard to swallow as well.

EthnicityThis SchoolState Average White53%37% Hispanic33%45% African American13%15% Asian/Pacific Islander1%3% Native American<1%<1%

This SchoolState Average Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch program30%48% Special education12%11% Gifted/talented students3%8% Limited English proficient11%16%

[texastea]

Originally Posted by OntheMoveAGAIN

Texas schools - TX elementary, middle and high school information

There is quite a few low scores on the great schools site -one of the schools is deemed unacceptable, maybe this is the website she is referring to.

If the school is rated unacceptable then they HAVE to let her transfer within the district. And she could possibly qualify for a PEG (education grant) to transfer to another district.

[Hank Scorpio]

I live in Hutto. I moved here one year ago. The Hutto your brother describes does not exist. To be blunt some of the statements that you posted are more than ridicules. Such as, "the only English speaking student in her class" and "the class working on just teaching Spanish to English abc's". I will cannot even begin to say how silly the part about stabbing is.

Hutto is as about as small town as one can find in the United States. It has far more caucasins than any other group. I truly find what you brother has told you as laughable. If you ever come and visit, you will quickly understand my complete skepticism.