Well, Ms. Birdwell, I'm afraid that you won't have much good news to report about Skyline at your 30th high school reunion. A new plan to reduce crowding is underway for Skyline. 500 Magnet students will be removed and sent to Conrad H.S. This will help put Skyline right where the rest of DISD is, in the news and low performing.

Imagine if you will, Samuel H.S. with 4600 kids. That sounds like what the good Dr. is prescribing for Skyline. It's bound to be good for the home values and neighborhood around Skyline as well. I'm sure the magnet programs left at Skyline will have great luck recruiting DISD's best to come to a low performing school. Wait, if all of DISD has low performing schools then we won't have to work so hard to find a school to transfer our AYP students to. After all, the other magnets didn't have to take any of these students.

With Skyline's magnet programs gutted, just think of all that waisted space at Skyline you'll have for remidial reading classes. I bet you could teach 500 kids in the airplane hanger alone.

Dr. Hinojosa is recently quoted in the Dallas Morning News as saying "We will not tinker with the Magnets." I guess a wholesale gutting doesn't qualify as tinkering. Ask the good Dr. how much he has really done at Skyline since Birdwell's speech. How much was just lip service?

Mr. Wright seems to be trying to do a good job (probably the best job in about 5 years), but he was given a giant sinking ship loaded with dedicated sailors. He's on board and helping bail water, but unless DISD stops sending torpedos we'll sink.

I want to believe that DISD has the best interest in our students in mind, I really do, but it's getting harder and harder not to think they all just want to hop, skip and jump down the Road To Broad so they can all take high paying consulting jobs before the truth comes out. Wasn't the "Houston miracle" the first winner of the Broad prize?

[Ed Note: Dr. Hinojosa has tried, on several occasions, to convince people that he isn't going to gut the magnet schools. I guess the only way to convince some folks is for him not to gut the schools. So somebody tell us when he does gut them. Why don't you refrain from saying he's lying [when/if/until] it happens?]