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[quote=Anonymous]Look pp.  The Brent transformation was about making the school better for everyone in it.  I never, ever heard this talk about people alarmed by the social milieu and anxious to get rid of OOB children. Never. It was not the mindset or attitude if the people starting Brent Neighbors. Yes, inboundary families using the school necessarily led to fewer OOB slots in the lower grades.

In fact, in the early years large portions of the money raised by the PTA and political capitol of the parents and principals were used for improvements in the upper grades that were 100 percent OOB.  The attitude was that the older kids had a more pressing need for high quality and less-chaotic education.  Principal changes and staff changes for the better were not welcomed by a number of Brent families who moved over to Tyler or elsewhere because they were unhappy with the changes.  No doubt there was a change in the school culture that was not welcome to some.

I am not being starry eyed. No one was kicked out and Extraordinary efforts were made to get younger siblings of older OOB students in at PK.  That has become increasingly difficult with crowding pressures.

Possibly, the attitude of the newer parents at Brent who bought in after the transformation is more harsh on OOB students or whatever, but you couldn't be more wrong about the attitude of that first wave of inboundary families who embraced the school--whose oldest kids are in 4th and 5th grades now.[/quote]

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