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Likely, but that’s IF those numbers end up being close to that. These are the numbers GCCISD put out there BUT like I said, when they were asked point-blank at their February Board meeting if these numbers were accurate and if GCM was for sure going to be under the 6A threshold they wouldn’t answer either way. It’s a mess and we probably won’t know for sure which way GCM or any other GCCISD school is going until after next season most likely.

They’re not too radical for the High Schools but supposedly they’re trying to reduce GCM’s enrollment around 700 students. RSS would see a 500 student increase and REL around 200. Of course this doesn’t take into account many incoming 9th graders choosing their campus through the various academies. At the Feb Board meeting the question was asked whether or not this rezone would drop GCM down for sure and they didn’t answer that question, just saying that there are other things they can do as well like moving programs around to get that enrollment number down but that even if GCM drops down in ‘26 they’ll be back up permanently in ‘28 or ‘30 at the latest. Long story short, they want to drop GCM down in ‘26 and think they can do it but no guarantees and if they CAN do it, it’ll only last 2-4 years before they’re back in 6A to stay. If that’s the case I say leave them where they are and let them learn to live with it but it’s not up to me. It’s a lot more radical at the elementary and Jr school level. Some Junior Schools have fed into multiple High Schools for a while now. After this, each High School will have 2 Jr Schools which feed exclusively into them. At the Elementary level they’re closing Lamar Elementary and splitting its students between Carver and Ashbel Smith. It isn’t over after this rezone, either. GCCISD is going into year 3 of cuts in ‘25-‘26 and they said at the last meeting that the year after that ‘26-‘27 will be a cut year as well and that’s without taking into account what the Legislature is going to do as far as funding/Vouchers/etc.

When you’re talking 9-5A-D1, remember also that GCCISD is rezoning this summer. GCM might be dropping back down from 23-6A if they can get the numbers low enough. They’d surely want back into 9-5A-1 with RSS. REL in 9-5A-2 in-District with Randle right now would probably like to be able to play up in 9-5A-1 again as well since RSS and GCM were the 2 teams they always beat there, (I actually think REL is doing just fine where they are but that’s just me). There’s gonna be a lot of movement in ‘26.

Yeah, both do. Difference is that at least in Baytown we can admit it.

You haven’t bothered me one bit. You really did it to yourselves and you’re so far up your own 4$$3$ y’all can’t even see it.

You’ve forgotten that even back when The Hill was small the folks there acted like they were all God’s gift. The very definition of Lace Curtain Irish.

I wouldn’t move to Mont Belvieu even if you gave me the nicest McMansion on top of the salt dome and a free lifetime pass to the wave pool. I wouldn’t move there if you paid me twice what yall are paying the dad of that QB you just brought in. I got a better idea, though. Why don’t you come on down here and hang out with us instead. I guarantee you that we’re a lot more fun and it’ll help to remind you how the other half lives, maybe teach you some humility. You know, “Humble in victory, Gracious in defeat”? OK, I’ll admit that some of us have to work on our graciousness still but you have to admit in return that a whole lot of y’all have to work on your humility. One more thing, I don’t vote. I figured since I was from Baytown you’d have already known most of us down here don’t vote but I guess not. A whole lot of us around here used to vote. We’d vote for one thing and then the City would do another, vote for the School Board to do another thing and then they’d do the opposite. Eventually you realize that it doesn’t really matter who or what you vote for, the folks in charge are gonna pretty much do what they’re gonna do. You may not be there yet but you’ll get there soon enough.

“Just messin’ with ya”? Bull. You said what you feel and what a LOT of folks on The Hill feel and say all the time, not just amongst themselves but what they say on social media and right to the faces of the poor folks down here. I’ll bet you just reread your prior post, saw how bad it sounds when you type it out like that for everyone to read so now you come back with “I didn’t really mean it, I was only foolin’, actually it’s Y’ALL who are the haters!” At least be honest and own it. You said what you said, feel the way you feel, so own it. Don’t talk big and then try to walk it back later. You think you’re so much better than everyone else? Well then at least be honest about it, but you can’t because of what you are, what BH is. Just a bunch of haters and bullies who get a kick out of picking on cripples just to make themselves feel bigger and better. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t envy y’all, I pity y’all.

I’ll bet you can see the Monument from up on top of that high horse of yours. I’ve never met a single person who envies BH/MB/New Baytown, but I’ll grant you that there’s probably folks who do. Folks who haven’t actually taken a look at things over there and seen that the grass isn’t really that much greener and that folks there have just as many problems as folks down here. Many of those problems may be different kinds of problems, but problems they remain. Crime for y’all is WAY up, BTW. I hear that the felony dockets are backlogged 9-12 months at the Chambers County Courthouse. Mocking your neighbors for their problems is like whistling past the graveyard, I wouldn’t do it if I was you. All that said, yeah, you’re right. It’s been so long I can’t remember. Don’t think that’ll be changing anytime soon either, though it WILL eventually change as all things do.

How did I miss this? So much projection. A classic “I can’t be a _____, some of my best friends are _____!” Methinks he doth protest too much! Seriously, this guy is so worried about being outed as a hater that he has to go out of his way to shout from the rooftops that it’s not HIM who’s the hater. TRIGGERED! Like I said weeks ago on this same topic where this guy was talking about what a good friend of GCCISD he is. “With friends like these…”

A Coke and a smoke, please.

I really started questioning rhe decisions made by the folks at GCCISD after they decided to fill the REL pool in with concrete. It was great. I knew a girl back then who was on the Water Polo team. Loved hanging out around there.

Yeah, Snowflake’s always been good. I remember the old location, barely. We didn’t go there much because we always went to B&L Donuts across from the old Hospital and the Library. My mom loved their Bavarian Cream donuts. They dusted them with powdered sugar. Had an old breakfast counter with the stools set into the floor. Great place. The old man that had it finally died and his kids didn’t want to run it so they sold out to an Asian lady that still makes pretty good donuts but they’re not the same. Best kolache I ever had, though, wasn’t at either of those places. They had them in the cafeteria at REL before school. Cubed ham and government cheese. Thing was huge, they served it on a small paper plate and it was the size of the plate. Good times…

Where snowflake is now or where it was before? Snowflake is in the old Bonus Burger building now and I think that building was a Whataburger originally back in the 50’s/60’s. Just trying to figure out what building that hamburger stand was in. That’s a great story, BTW.

Baytown Jr’s colors are still red and white. I still call their team the Red Goslins occasionally and every time I do I end up having to explain why. I don’t know why GCCISD decided to change the mascot when they built the current HMJS at its new location. Both Jr Schools feed into REL and are natural rivals and the mascots fed into that a little bit.