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1 minute ago, CooterBrown said:


Wait until I tell you that AISD 7th grade advanced ELA “book reports” are actually art projects where they draw important scenes from the book. They don’t actually write anything for a book report.

It's maddening.  I understand making that an option for some kids, since we've all but given up on actually educating the bottom half of students and instead focus on their feelings, but making it the mandatory method for a book report is just giving up on everyone, and is representative of how our system is failing by focusing on ensuring all kids feel good while neglecting to actually educate the kids who can handle it.  My autistic 8th grader would be much happier writing a five-page book report.  Those stupid fucking art projects stymie him.  The other area that this shows up prominently is how daily busy work counts for 70% or more of your final grade, while exams are typically no more than 20%. That same son will score 100 (or more if there is extra credit) on every single exam in every single class, which are all upper level, but nearly fails many of his classes because he doesn't turn in forms on time, or has the wrong color of binder.  All of this in a school district where half the teachers don't even have emergency certification (i.e., they have no fucking clue what they're doing). This bullshit to make sure kids who don't test well don't get left behind is leaving behind kids who are excellent at content mastery (which should be the fucking point) but suck at inane busy work is a crazy way to run an educational system.  We're so focused on creating a new generation of drones who will either skip college or get a business degree if they go, that we're failing to nurture the people we'll need to take the lead in the future.  

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Posted
23 minutes ago, sasquatch69 said:

How is Bowie HS affected by all this?

Here's a link to the boundary map changes for all AISD schools:  Link

Bowie HS maps are on page 199.  Looks like only small changes along the southeast boundary.

Posted
24 minutes ago, sasquatch69 said:

How is Bowie HS affected by all this?

Almost not at all, and by that I mean you still have to play Westlake, Drip and LT.  Best of luck.

Bowie's boundary has some tiny changes to cede a few streets to Crockett and add a few streets from Akins, but other than that it's unchanged:

https://www.austinisd.org/sites/default/files/dept/school-improvement/docs/consolidations/BowieHS_AISD-Draft-Consol-DW-Boundaries-10.3.2025-ada.pdf

There are some changes to the middle schools that feed Bowie.

Posted
2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:


Wait until I tell you that AISD 7th grade advanced ELA “book reports” are actually art projects where they draw important scenes from the book. They don’t actually write anything for a book report.

And that's after they watch the movie version.

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