Pros
My campus is a STEM magnet HS and it's racial demographics reflect those of Houston's demographic breakdown and we serve all parts of the city.
Cons
In any other profession, when people are hired, it is with the understanding they have the capabilities and talent for the job at hand, so unless a teacher has shown their ineffectiveness, then leave them alone, and do not make us prove via various forms of digital documentation, that we are executing our jobs effectively. The district is bloated, and unorganized, uses collective punishment tactics, and relies on micromanaging and not instructional support. The new superintendent and school board's lesson documentation policies are supposed to be in place for the sake of accountability, but in application act as easy and lazy checkboxes and also forms of micromanagement and are ineffective in their impacts on student performance/experience. Most of the news policies, just feel like collective punishment, lazy on the admins' side when it comes to actual instructional support, and a waste of good teachers' time.