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CooterBrown

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  1. Bedichek, Martin, Brykerwoods, Wooten, Dawson, Becker, Maplewood, Ridgetop, and Joslin are the first schools on the chopping block to be leaked.
  2. I have an irrational hatred for Hermit. I hope the eyeball takes him down.
  3. One data point they threw out there was that when Minneapolis consolidated their schools, they lost 35% of their students. Someone from AISD offhandedly mentioned an expectation of 10-15%. The issue with the Zoom meetings is that 99% of the participants only give a shit about the wall-to-wall dual language schools. I honestly didn't even know that was a thing. I wanted to just yell that shit won't even exist when TEA takes over so don't worry about it.
  4. My first guess would be that Pillow & Wooten would merge since they're both under enrolled and really close to each other. If you eliminate transfers, then Gullett & Brentwood fall within the ideal 85-95% capacity range. It seems like easy fixes for 4 schools. However, from the Dobie/Lamar meetings months ago, eastside activists were pretty insistent that white schools need to suffer. Gullett hasn't received any real construction money and is in terrible condition. Most classrooms are portables. They actually still use the very first portable AISD bought in the early '60s (the Speech portable). That is an extremely valuable piece of property and I would think developers have had discussions with them. I fear for Lamar also. That has to be some valuable land at Burnet/2222. Burnet and Dobie MS are right down the road. If you split the higher performing Lamar students to those campuses, it can lift them out of their F ranking. If students from the bad schools move, the F rating follows those students. So, from a ratings perspective, it makes more sense to close a better performing school and disperse those students.
  5. Strong rumor going around that Wooten Elementary will close and merge with Brentwood which puts that school over capacity. I'm gonna guess our home elementary, Gullett, is gonna get fucked and merged with Pillow. From the Zoom call, it sounds like the Beckett Elementary community already knows they're also closing.
  6. It seems like many in Austin aren’t aware of the school consolidation plan that will announced Oct 3rd and voted on, on the 9th. A dozen or more elementary and middle schools will close and all attendance boundaries will be redrawn. AISD said in the Zoom call yesterday that every school will be affected and the boundary changes will be severe. They will also most likely eliminate transfers to force kids to attend their home schools. TEA also moved the goal posts and just said AISD must develop improvement plans for 33 schools instead of the original dozen. The plans are still due in November. This is to assure the inevitable state takeover of the district. TLDR: AISD is fucked.
  7. El Paso is statistically the safest city in the US. Just don't do anything to get your face cut off and sewn on a soccer ball and you'll be fine. Maybe.
  8. To be fair, Major is most famous for rawdogging a fat chick.
  9. Brits train to be actors. Americans train to be movie stars.
  10. Nothing says left wing trans like being the kid of a mouth breathing cop. I wonder how many murders his dad confessed to his kid over the years.
  11. I refuse to see this movie because the one trailer has been in front of every fucking movie I’ve seen for the past year.
  12. I want to laugh at aggy but I know this same shit will happen at Texas at any moment.
  13. There are complete undergraduate programs taught in English in other countries also. For example, you can get a mechanical engineering degree at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the program is 100% in English and no German proficiency is required for admission. You will have to the pay the international tuition rate of ~$1,500 a year.
  14. It does my Gen X heart proud to see a cursive G that's close to the version we spent countless hours on repetitive worksheets perfecting in 2nd grade only to never write a G like that in the real world.
  15. I never even noticed there was a cross on the old logo until today.
  16. My kid went to the doctor in Fort Collins for the first time last week. When the nurse asked where she was from and she replied Texas, the nurse said "don't worry we love you here and will take of you."
  17. The more I think about this episode, the more it sucked. They’ve been on mission for 65 years. Boy Cavalier wasn’t born until like 25 years ago. The engineer would’ve had to be compromised well before then. Otherwise, he couldn’t get out of cryosleep on his own. Also, Prodigy didn’t exist back then anyway because it can’t be more than a few years old.
  18. I saw something that stated the best and brightest aren’t signing up for a 65 year long mission where you have to give up all your friends and family.
  19. Outside the red zone, fo’ sure.
  20. You know he cooked the numbers in trump’s favor and that’s the best he could do.
  21. Jose Mencheca says deal with it, pendejo.
  22. Arguably some of the best Star Wars ever made. https://www.youtube.com/@StormTrooperVlogs
  23. Hometown Hero Wellness is having a sale on all the jazz cabbage edibles Dan Patrick had in his box for his press conference. Discount code is DANSDELIGHT.
  24. Just saw that the 14th Slough House book comes out this year. If we get 14 seasons of this, I ain't complaining.
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