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re: Thoughts on this new High School being bult in Texas?
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:47 am to FLTech
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:47 am to FLTech
I’m sad that some of my taxes probably helped build that
Public school should be illegal. It’s a wealth transfer from working people via taxes to people that don’t work (government employees)
Plus public school kids can’t read and all go to jail. Parents that actually love their kids send them to private school
Public school should be illegal. It’s a wealth transfer from working people via taxes to people that don’t work (government employees)
Plus public school kids can’t read and all go to jail. Parents that actually love their kids send them to private school
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Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:49 am to El Segundo Guy
“I'm glad as hell im not paying the property taxes to build that shite.”
You should see how they come after us taxpayers for stadiums..
Recently grandfathered in/out of school taxes:)
You should see how they come after us taxpayers for stadiums..
Recently grandfathered in/out of school taxes:)
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:50 am to Dragula
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Allen, Mckinney, Prosper have nicer stadiums than most smaller universities
You really do not understand the whole Texas Friday Night Lights, until you go to a game.
Allen is probably one of the best examples. It is a one HS town, that happens to be the largest HS in Texas. The band alone has got up to 800 members marching on the field in the past. It also helped they won 5 state football titles in last 17 years.
The high school has 7000 students, Ole Miss only had 10,000 when I went there
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:52 am to BRUNNIN4
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Go look up the Great Schools ratings and get back to me. It is possible to be good at both if you have enough money.
It's both because the two go hand in hand
Most of the state powers in Texas Football are mostly white, affluent high schools. Because its easy to get those kids to buy in because they don't have the distractions that inner city kids have to deal with.
However there have been some successful inner city/mostly black high schools that have had success lately in Duncanville, North Crowley, South Oak Cliff, but it requires a no nonsense hardline coach who can keep the kids from being distracted.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:54 am to DarthRebel
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The high school has 7000 students, Ole Miss only had 10,000 when I went there
It's dumb. My high school is a 6A school and combining my high school with the other high school in the school district still wouldn't exceed 7,000 enrollment.
A lot of schools would be good if they didn't have to split the district's enrollment across multiple high schools and had 7,000 kids to pick from. Hell my high school's rival in the same school district has won multiple state titles. Imagine how good of a team would form by combining.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:54 am to DarthRebel
Who would want to be in a high school that big?
Posted on 2/28/25 at 11:57 am to The Torch
half a student?
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:00 pm to DarthRebel
“Texas has so much more to do than Louisiana does”
Proceeds to brag about high school football and taco trucks run by illegals
Proceeds to brag about high school football and taco trucks run by illegals
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:08 pm to FLTech
Get mesmerized by the physical plant and scale and you risk missing some very important things about the avg experience of a mass education production plant that is the blueprint of many large Texas High Schools.
Lived in Texas’ large city / burbs for many years. Raised kids there. Took decision to get them outta there for HS. Many downsides that get overshadowed in the WOW factor of the bricks and mortar. Very much the right thing (for us).
Lived in Texas’ large city / burbs for many years. Raised kids there. Took decision to get them outta there for HS. Many downsides that get overshadowed in the WOW factor of the bricks and mortar. Very much the right thing (for us).
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:11 pm to Dragula
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Allen, Mckinney, Prosper have nicer stadiums than most smaller universities
My little class B high school used to play Prosper in football. It is amazing how big Prosper is now (and my home town has only grown by about 100 people).
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:15 pm to FLTech
This is just asinine. Why can’t they just add T-Buildings, like Louisiana public schools do, and just call it a day? Seems like a waste of money to do all this.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:19 pm to BRUNNIN4
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Go look up the Great Schools ratings and get back to me. It is possible to be good at both if you have enough money.
Do those ratings measure how many kids get drowned out in said school? Ones who would otherwise flourish if given opportunity (only so many can make the field / stage / etc)?
Do those ratings measure the implications and effect from the mindset created in a culture of this type of school?
Do those ratings measure coaches and what they do to their pipeline of kids to such a school? For example, message given to the 7-10yos who feed that HS…”if you do not give your all (Basketball summer camp) someone else will” (to 7yo’s…heard w/my own ears in one TX burb w/similar HS that you speak of)?
Do those ratings measure how many kids end up in beauty school, that otherwise had different dreams, because of this HS model?
Do those ratings measure the antidepressant consumption created by that atmosphere? As well, the home life of the corporate jockey type parents who are like Moths to light for said measures?
Could go on. Will stop here.
This post was edited on 2/28/25 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:25 pm to BRUNNIN4
Big facilities also offer up other opportunities. Band, drama, shop (now has multiple disciplines, robotics, choir, sports medicine, and TV/Music production are all pretty much standard at all these schools.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:26 pm to DarthRebel
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:28 pm to FLTech
My high school was a mixture of buildings, built from WWII through the 1960s, and none of them were air conditioned.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:28 pm to TechBullDawg
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La Marque ?
They're building a new one as well, but nothing as massive as that.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:31 pm to el Gaucho
This is an outrageous take especially from a guy who probably went to public school
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:32 pm to DarthRebel
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New schools being built here are next level amazing
They better be as much as we're paying with property taxes.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:36 pm to goldennugget
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DFW area school district just passed a 1 billion dollar bond package
You got nothing on Katy ISD. We pass one of those every other year. And every year, these idiots fall for the "your tax rate won't increase" bullshite, while the county assessor has already mailed out their intentions to hit most people with 10% a year increase in valuations for each of the next four years. How so many people with engineering and science degrees can be so blind boggles the mind.
Posted on 2/28/25 at 12:45 pm to fareplay
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This is an outrageous take especially from a guy who probably went to public school
I didn’t go to school
I’m sure that 20 million dollar stadium received federal funds somewhat which means I paid for it so I am qualified to speak
They sink like 100 million into these schools only to produce the same dumbass native Texans that sell insurance and the same crop of Mexican American kids that barely speak English
Putting more money into education doesn’t improve results, success is a function of genetics and luck and how much money your parents spend to give you a head start and a kid with the right factors could learn the same in a fema trailer if he had the potential. The educational arms race is a wealth transfer and it’s glaringly obvious in texas where y’all all bitch about the draconian property tax when y’all should be rioting about these palaces they build for these mediocre kids with yalls tax dollars
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