Where do we move in 2021 in Houston? Diversity, Yard, short commute, good schools

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by groovamos

You ask about good schools, does that mean schools with libraries, textbooks and homework assignments? There are schools in the Houston area which have none of those because they "educate" large immigrant populations who for various reasons are not able to handle those three things. The prime example is the 3 year old Wisdom High, ironically named because it was unwise to name it Robert E. Lee which it replaced on the same site; also because in senior English, the students don't read books, but rather synopses and then are supposed to write papers about those papers, and then cuss out the teacher when they get a zero for not writing the paper. There is no library because all the books would disappear, I'm guessing. I would guess textbooks would be all lost or destroyed. There is no homework because immigrant children are expected to work full time to support the family and have no study time after school and are too tired to study anyway. If a student is native born, with time to study and do homework and try to get to university, and zoned for Wisdom, then one of life's lotteries has come up empty for that student.

What a bunch of racist blather.

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Your OP has Willowbend/Willow Meadows written all over it.

-Large LGBT community.
-Good elementary and middle school.
-reasonable commute to downtown
-Low Crime
-Beautiful homes

[TallGreengrass]

Westbury, Willowbend and willow Meadows are pretty neighborhoods and are close-in but do not have great schools.

[mkwensky]

Originally Posted by TallGreengrass

Westbury, Willowbend and willow Meadows are pretty neighborhoods and are close-in but do not have great schools.

The high school's low performing but it's possible to find good elementary and middle schools there.

[TallGreengrass]

Originally Posted by mkwensky

The high school's low performing but it's possible to find good elementary and middle schools there.

Agree. I think the elementary schools are moving in the right direction but it’s slow going. We put 10 years in the neighborhood and not enough changed in the schools to keep us. A lot of our neighbors left and went west (memorial area) and a few went to the suburbs. The few friends who remained do private and play the HISD lottery. Sometimes you win big and sometimes you lose big playing that game. I don’t think I would send my kids to Westbury in 5 years.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by TallGreengrass

Agree. I think the elementary schools are moving in the right direction but it’s slow going. We put 10 years in the neighborhood and not enough changed in the schools to keep us. A lot of our neighbors left and went west (memorial area) and a few went to the suburbs. The few friends who remained do private and play the HISD lottery. Sometimes you win big and sometimes you lose big playing that game. I don’t think I would send my kids to Westbury in 5 years.

If your kids are smart enough, then the AP classes at HISD High Schools will work just fine. My kid is in AP classes at an HISD HS, and is doing really well, with great teachers.

[TallGreengrass]

I still wouldn’t send my kids to Westbury in 5 years. High school is more than an AP program.