Margaret Long Wisdom HS at Richmond and Voss
Howâs this for ROI?
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Yeah that entire side of Houston has always been fairly well off.
Itâs valuable real estate thatâs in proximity to high end shopping centers
when you have great universities (Rice & UH) that serve an economically active city, naturally, it helps people move up the ladder
Itâs one of the benefits of not being a college town
UH is only going up from here especially with Renu as president
Rice doesnât have enough graduates to really have an effect on the Houston economy.
A good majority of their graduates are from out of state and move from Houston upon graduation.
Rice attracts a lot of HS student visits for tours. Decent number stay but not enough to move the needle much. Many go elsewhere for grad school. Maybe the Jones MBA attracts some.
JV did everything it could to zone out areas not in the city limits over the years - they sent everyone south of 290 and east of the beltway to cy fair - cy falls wherever to not send them to JV but they overlooked the abundant apartments nearby and the areas near the race track up N Houston Rosalyn - Fairbanks are strictly county with no type of regulations so they became a area for cheap housing
But look how how fast these new school districts have mediocre schools - especially in the county like Katy and cypress
They talk about Katy, Taylor, Cinco and 7 lakes, etc but Morton ranch, Mayde Creek, Paetow and this new school are majority minority quick
Same in cypress - cy creek was once the golden goose school but it has dropped and all the schools north of 529 ainât nothing to write home about as those area aged bad or opened with cheap housing to begin with
Alvin ISD will be next in the southern area with all those rental communities popping up
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wrong type of ROI, NorbertâŠthose type RARELY ever give back to the University, their family, that gave them that opportunity to be successful.
They arenât involved students while they attend and they arenât active alums after either.
There is a reason why we are #1 in that category of student yet dead last in every other metric related to involvement/ pride/ support/ mentorship/ etcâŠbasically GIVING BACK!
Not Rocket Science âŠhere. ACCEPT students that WANT To be part of the UH familyâŠnot ones that only TAKE for their own self interests.
Gotta take the best students regardless of ethnicity or wealth. We can look for applicants who are involved in HS and give back but thatâs only in holistic applicants. I understand that UT highly favors sports captains and other selective leadership.
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Are you saying that Wisdom High School is a good school?
The decline in The Woodlands has started. At least the areas closer to 45. Further down the parkway and Research will probably be able to hold out longer.
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JV in the 90âs was good overall. About 1/3 upper middle, 1/3 middle and 1/3 lower middle class. Thatâs why you have famous rappers coming from the same graduating class as Hollywood movie directors.
Robert E Lee in the 90âs was not good then and is not good now. Mostly first gen immigrants. If you had bosses living there in the 90âs then someone made a bad decision - them continuing to live there or you working for them lol.
My brother graduated from Lee in 1991âŠand that school went steadily downhill ever since.
Westside High more or less took all of Leeâs more affluent neighborhoods when it opened.
Wow. Youâre actually poopooing an outstanding metric as social mobility? Youâve got the wrong priority.
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Whatâs causing all these downturns? We canât talk about it.
I donât know if it was downturns so much as the more affluent neighborhoods that had been zoned to Lee eventually got their own HISD school (Westside High), leaving Lee (later Margaret Wisdom High), with mostly poor neighborhoods in its zone.
In the most interesting twist of all, while HS football continued at Westside High, Wisdom High dropped football and began focusing on soccer.
Our celebration of taking poor students and turning them âmiddle classâ will be our downfall because âonlyâ targeting those type of students does NOT lead to a sustained culture.
We should accept some of those type of students but the FACT is that first generation college students have no family frame of reference to understand ALL of the ways that attending University is a MUTUAL exchange of valueâŠthey only focus on what THEY get from the exchange instead of what they CONTRIBUTE back.
I say this as someone whose parent was a FIRST GENERATION college student in our family. One that attended UH and had literally zero connection to UHâŠnow future generations have a different connection.
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NoâŠwe arenât a Community CollegeâŠsorry
We have HCC and Lone Star College to fill that need.
WE ARE A 100 YEAR OLD P4 UNIVERSITYâŠtime we act like one.
You may think it is a proud achievementâŠothers use it to defend calling us Cougar HighâŠyou donât get it.
While it is a notable metricâŠit isnât one that tells us weâve become a more prestigious destination University that has a pick of viable applicants.
We should aim to be more of a UCLA NOT the University of MemphisâŠor Boise State!
UH has been doing this for decades yet we are doing great, always on an upward trajectory. UH is unique. Not another me too university. Keep UH weird. Weâre Houston.
I donât like how youâre framing your opinion, but even with that thought, itâs not that easy to âtargetâ certain kids that wouldnât normal attend UH in the first place.
UH does get wealthy kids. Itâs not the majority, but there are wealthier kids. Another large part of UHâs demographic are suburban kids.
The fact that UH does have many first gen college students is a good thing, because itâs helping to elevate the city of Houston, but itâs also going to get their kids to go to UH.