Telfair high school rezoning (Austin, New Territory: new home, neighborhood, construction)

[AK123]

Originally Posted by va_residents

Plan A is Telfair zone to Clements. Plan B is Telfair zone to Austin. Plan A is long term solution. Plan B is short term fix and will rezone in 3-5 years. However BOT favors plan B due to community feedback.

And by "community feedback" it seems it is a rather small/tight but vocal group(s). Rather than data or other communities who are smaller or newer/less established and don't have the same influence. Which is really unfortunate and part of the reason for this mess in the first place.

[wheretogo]

It appears Dupre is trying to please everyone...He should stick to the data, if he really wants to clean the mess.

[Firefly in sweet land]

Originally Posted by ipuck

I heard they placed the Riverstone ES back to FSMS. Avalon in Riverstone is being moved to Clements and be part of Commonwealth zone.

Creekstone in Riverstone looks like will no longer be in the new ES.

I don't know about the rest.

So, all this is confirmed info? It means that Telfair will go to Austin and not clements?

[NY to LA]

I think it's time for Telfair people to step up and start acting on this. Telfair, as well as Riverton, are full of young families with small kids, so those families should work on providing stability for their kids.

[AK123]

Originally Posted by Firefly in sweet land

So, all this is confirmed info? It means that Telfair will go to Austin and not clements?

As I understand, nothing is confirmed until early next year. Right now is just proposals and feedback.

The proposal having Telfair go to Clements seems to make the most sense both by numbers and by distance, but I'm still waiting for this district to actually do something based on data and not by who protested the loudest.

[Firefly in sweet land]

Originally Posted by AK123

As I understand, nothing is confirmed until early next year. Right now is just proposals and feedback.

The proposal having Telfair go to Clements seems to make the most sense both by numbers and by distance, but I'm still waiting for this district to actually do something based on data and not by who protested the loudest.

Agree 100%. If the loudest protests only can get the work done, that's setting a bad trend. Need extra time, energy and efforts from our actual jobs to be loud. Giving our opinition in survey and ground facts like distance, and future overcrowding issue of Austin school etc. should matter to FBISD than loudness.Austin is not at all a bad option. But distance wise Clements makes better choice for Telfair.

[va_residents]

Avalon at Telfair was zoned to Clements a few years ago. Now Avalon at Riverstone will zone to Clements. Same builder. It is very fishy. Avalon at Riverstone has many homes to be built. Once they zone to Clements, builder will raise price like they did to Avalon at Telfair.

[swopoe]

Originally Posted by va_residents

Avalon at Telfair was zoned to Clements a few years ago. Now Avalon at Riverstone will zone to Clements. Same builder. It is very fishy. Avalon at Riverstone has many homes to be built. Once they zone to Clements, builder will raise price like they did to Avalon at Telfair.

Good point..

[SL Hawkeye]

Originally Posted by va_residents

Plan A is Telfair zone to Clements. Plan B is Telfair zone to Austin. Plan A is long term solution. Plan B is short term fix and will rezone in 3-5 years. However BOT favors plan B due to community feedback. (Riverstone and Clements old communities are against plan A)

If BOT decide to go with plan B, Walker Station will zone to Travis. New Territory will be pissed. So is Aliana.

As a resident of the the west side of NT, I would be incredibly amused if such a plan went through. I know at least a dozen families who moved to the east side of NT over the last 8 years, only because they wanted to send their kids to Austin HS. My oldest attends Travis, and it's a very solid high school. There's a little riff-raff there right now, but all of the plans show those neighborhoods being re-zoned to Bush HS.

People put way too much emphasis on the zoning boundaries of these schools. The bricks and the historical rankings of a school have a negligible effect on the quality of an education provided. The single, largest factor is having a school full of kids with parents that care about their education. I chose my neighborhood solely because of this. It doesn't matter where they send us, our neighborhood will raise these fickle rankings just by being loaded full of like-minded families who pay attention to their childrens' education.

[swopoe]

Originally Posted by SL Hawkeye

As a resident of the the west side of NT, I would be incredibly amused if such a plan went through. I know at least a dozen families who moved to the east side of NT over the last 8 years, only because they wanted to send their kids to Austin HS. My oldest attends Travis, and it's a very solid high school. There's a little riff-raff there right now, but all of the plans show those neighborhoods being re-zoned to Bush HS.

People put way too much emphasis on the zoning boundaries of these schools. The bricks and the historical rankings of a school have a negligible effect on the quality of an education provided. The single, largest factor is having a school full of kids with parents that care about their education. I chose my neighborhood solely because of this. It doesn't matter where they send us, our neighborhood will raise these fickle rankings just by being loaded full of like-minded families who pay attention to their childrens' education.

Well said. Kids who want to learn and parents who care. That is what it boils down to in the end.