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6 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

I was surprised, looking at the maps, that more of Bryker Woods was not absorbed into Casis.

The married student housing along Lake Austin Blvd has historically been part to Mathews, to combine it with the married student housing east of Mopac.  In the proposed maps, the housing along LAB is now assigned to Casis and the part east of Mopac is still Mathews.  Which splits that community.  However, UT has started to move this housing to east campus near Disch-Falk, and those kids will probably end up at Campbell long term.

I *think* there is some room at Casis to put Bryker Woods kids at Casis.  I am surprised they didn't keep the married students together at Mathews and move the Bryker Woods kids to Casis.  I suspect the BW families would have preferred Casis to Mathews, but that is just my guess.

Also, Mathews 6th grade is proposed to end.  I think BW lost their 6th a few years ago.  Honestly getting rid of 6th in the Austin High / O. Henry vertical will help O. Henry long term.

It’s more of a cultural thing. BW parents tend to like a smaller, laid back school without the hyper intense parent culture. I think they would get more pushback if Casis was the plan. 

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3 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

It’s more of a cultural thing. BW parents tend to like a smaller, laid back school without the hyper intense parent culture. I think they would get more pushback if Casis was the plan. 

Absolutely wrong. The reason BW isn't rezoned to Casis is because the Pemberton parents cut a deal with Lynn Boswell for them to stay at Casis. Spare me the "cultural" fit. That's horse shit.

Edit to add: BW kids and families are friends with Casis kids and families through all kinds of activities. We all know each other and the parent culture. 

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On 10/3/2025 at 5:58 PM, gsoda3 said:

Woof Mueller kids gonna be zoned to Northeast

I’m somewhat chuckling about this. 10 years ago we were misled by the developers that all of Mueller was zoned to Maplewood elementary and McCallum hs. We figured out that we were just east of a dividing line after plunking down a big deposit so we just rolled with it. There was such hypocrisy of people preaching to “east Muellerites” to happily send their kids to Blanton and Reagan/NE, while being uppity about their kids’ schools (or if they had money, sending their kids to private schools). Maplewood (and maybe McCallum) were too full to accept transfers so we were stuck. We ended up bailing to the burbs when our kids started school. Now the west muellerites can practice what they preached.  

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7 hours ago, Cap33 said:

Absolutely wrong. The reason BW isn't rezoned to Casis is because the Pemberton parents cut a deal with Lynn Boswell for them to stay at Casis. Spare me the "cultural" fit. That's horse shit.

Edit to add: BW kids and families are friends with Casis kids and families through all kinds of activities. We all know each other and the parent culture. 

I’m sure that Boswell did cut a deal for Pemberton parents to stay there. It’s very on brand for her and has nothing to do with my point. And yes, I know the BW and  Casis parents are very connected, they basically share a neighborhood.

But I stand by my statement about most BW parents wanting to be a part of a smaller, more relaxed school than Casis. I have had dozens, if not hundreds of direct conversations with BW families about this exact topic when I was an AISD employee very close to this situation. Not going to say anymore about BW on here because I’ll dox myself and don’t really have any interest in doing so.

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I was curious to know the collective impact of these consolidations and the recent bond programs on the schools of East Austin.  So I looked it up.
I am defining "East Austin" here as north of the river and east of 35.
I did not count LASA as an East Austin school since it's a magnet.

Here's what it would look like after the 2022 bond program is complete and if these consolidations go ahead as proposed:

Elementaries:

* 6 will be brand new as part of the 2017/2022 bonds (Harris, Andrews, Norman-Sims, Govalle, Sanchez, Pecan Springs)
* 2 have been built since 2000 (Overton, Pickle)
* 5 was built prior to 2000 (Blanton, Ortega, Zavala, Blackshear, Campbell)

Middle Schools:

* 2 will be brand new as part of the 2017/2022 bonds (Sadler Means, Marshall)
* 1 has been built since 2000 (Gus Garcia)
* 1 was built prior to 2000 (Kealing)

High Schools:

* 1 is brand new as part of the 2017 bond (Eastside)
* 2 others (Northeast, LBJ) received some money in 2017 and a large investment in 2022, with more work still to be done.

The three high schools received a total of $347 million in bond money in 2017 and 2022 combined.  Today, they collectively enroll about the same number of students as Bowie.


 

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9 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

But I stand by my statement about most BW parents wanting to be a part of a smaller, more relaxed school than Casis. I have had dozens, if not hundreds of direct conversations with BW families about this exact topic when I was an AISD employee very close to this situation.

And in the context of BW vs. Casis, I'm sure you did hear that. But the choice between Casis and driving across town to Mathews that has over 50% transfers, and thus a weak tie to its own neighborhood, I think the answer is much different. 

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13 hours ago, Cap33 said:

And in the context of BW vs. Casis, I'm sure you did hear that. But the choice between Casis and driving across town to Mathews that has over 50% transfers, and thus a weak tie to its own neighborhood, I think the answer is much different. 

Mathews campus is terrible. Not a blade of grass anywhere on that block. 

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Will this first meeting involve anything beyond a regurgitation of what was released on Friday?  Isn't this just the presentation of the plan to the board?  Will they have community speakers to liven things up with some good old-fashioned mindless ranting?

I want to fast forward to the board approving whatever they're going to do, so we can decide what to do with our kids.  I don't think anything is going to look substantively different than the plan they've had cooked up for well over a year now, regardless of the mandatory dog and pony show they have been putting on to feign giving a crap about community input.   I've got zero interest in the mud-slinging and cat-clawing that will go on between now and then.  It will be the same old pile of nonsense, with a mix of race-baiting, misdirected anger, false entitlement, and virtue signalling from middle-aged white women, all while any sensible commentary is wholly lost in the wash.

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34 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

It will be the same old pile of nonsense, with a mix of race-baiting, misdirected anger, false entitlement, and virtue signalling from middle-aged white women, all while any sensible commentary is wholly lost in the wash.

I’m here for it!

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I attended a neighborhood meeting with our trustee and board president Lynn Boswell. She said the administration staff created the plan and gave it to the trustees 24 hours before it became public, so she and the other board members are digesting it like we are. Not sure I fully believe that, but whatever. She and other trustees are questioning many of the recommendations pertaining to the new boundaries, and it sounds like they are already going back to staff to make changes. However, she had no answers to hard questions about the rubric and the data that are clearly flawed when presented with specific examples of incorrect data and assumptions staff made. She just kept saying they were good questions and she'll have to look at the data that she says she doesn't have access to (although it's all there on the AISD website). She also had no answer to questions about whether school closures would actually save any money, or how the closures will fend off a state takeover. Several comments about how the state keeps moving the goalposts on the grading criteria but no real answers.

She has her talking points down pat, as I suspect all the trustees do, but the substance is lacking. I don't expect the proposal w/r/t the closures will change. They are getting called out for forming the list despite the data, but it's not going to change their plan. Oh, and if anyone is counting, four of the 11 failing schools survived the closure list. She outright said that they need higher performing kids to go to their zoned crappy school to raise that school's grade to passing. That's the big plan.

Can't wait for Matias to start making his in-person rounds. That will be a shit show.

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