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  1. For the record, here's the entire radio address by the Gipper, one of at least two he made on tariffs: Reagan sounds amazingly sane compared to the current dude and this is late in his 2nd term:
  2. Hope that this guy is charged both for the murder threat and interfering with a person legally fishing. And he’s doxxed and treated like the POS that he is. What are you in for? Threating to murder someone... Wow. Also I prevented a minor from fishing...
  3. 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.
  4. Also where would you put all of your crap? 🙂 My kids have been off to college for a while and I am still opening closets, panicking, and then slowly closing them. Our neighborhood was built in the 1940s and I think my kids were part of maybe the 3rd wave of kids to live here. The fourth is ramping up. We had lots of kids on our street when we moved here. Then teens and then zero. Now we are back to strollers.
  5. One more point on this: fewer kids are being born in Austin ISD and more of those kids are gone by kindergarten. The number of births in Austin ISD has steadily dropped from 11,300 in 2006 to 9,100 in 2022. And the percentage of kids that are still in AISD by kindergarten has dropped from 68% in 2006 to 55% in 2022. Both trends reduce the number of kids in the district. Unless the district makes up for this shortfall by importing kids from elsewhere, enrollment will drop and will continue to drop, regardless of the quality of the education, the buildings, whatever. Westlake is projected to drop too, as is Vandegrift. Lake Travis is building a second high school and is having some second thoughts about being able to fill it. We are headed into an era where we need fewer schools or smaller schools. They can still be great schools, but the days of measuring a district by the growth in the number of students are ending.
  6. The 2023-24 demographic report had some information on losses to area charter schools and other districts. It shows a net loss of 868 students from SY 2017/18 to SY 2022/23. Over that same period, district enrollment fell by 8266 students. Here's a list of area school districts and charter schools that receive students from AISD (transfers out of the district or to charters): And a list of area districts that send students to AISD (transfers in to the district):
  7. You're not wrong. Remember Prop A from last year? Austin voters voted to voluntarily raise their own school property taxes to cover "copper" pennies. If those "copper" pennies were simply changed to be "golden" pennies, meaning no recapture, the budget would balance with room to spare. It would mean $130 million in new funding for the district per year, and it would not affect the "original" recapture payment at all. That would still go to the state. Such an easy fix and yet here we are ...
  8. He mentioned Crabtree. Too soon, man, too soon...
  9. Sounds difficult…
  10. The Patton / Small community is very important to the Austin High community. Those parents always showed up. The Travis Country community was also a huge part of O. Henry and Austin High. I get that they are trying to fill up Crockett and change the demographics to balance enrollment, but it seems crazy to deliberately reduce the population at Small and Austin High, schools that are mostly full today. They are trying to keep all of the high schools open by spreading the kids around ... which may lower utilization at Small and Austin High ... and again what was the point of this exercise?
  11. Almost 100 years ago ...
  12. When I saw Manning slide live, I thought maybe he could have made it. After watching the replay, I agree with you, just slide. Manning slid around 4:42. OU burned two timeouts and the clock ran down to 2:59 before the field goal attempt. Had Texas been able to get another first down, they could have taken it down to maybe a smidge over a minute.
  13. I'm a product of Carrollton/Farmers Branch ISD. We have a long history of being doormats for surrounding schools. We had a year where crosstown rivals winless Newman Smith played winless R. L. Turner, which should have produced a win for somebody. They tied. We peaked when we produced Vanilla Ice.
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