Entries from Houstonist tagged with 'fortbendisd'
September 12, 2007
Good morning, Houston. Did you hear the one about the high school teacher who might have appeared in a bunch of gay sex videos? Well, now you have. He's a faculty member at Clements High in Sugar Land, and Fort Bend ISD officials got a tip last week that he has appeared in dozens of sexually explicit videos under an assumed name. The district has removed the teacher from the classroom while it investigates......
Continue Reading "Morning Roundup: That'll get you detention edition"June 6, 2007
Good morning, Houston. The bad news: You've missed your chance to see the International Space Station this morning as it orbits above Texas. (We suppose it's only bad news if you're interested in seeing the space station — if you're not, hey, you won't be disappointed!) The good news: You'll have three more opportunities before the end of the week. The ISS will be visible at 4:08 a.m. Thursday (for nearly four minutes, beginning......
Continue Reading "Morning Roundup: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's freakin' early! edition"May 3, 2007
Good morning, Houston. Are we the only ones who've had a really long week? Even though Thursday just reminds us that it's not yet Friday, we can still find some Thursday goodness. For example, did you know Thursday is named for Thor, the god of thunder? OK, then, how about what it meant if you wore green to high school on Thursday in the '60s? And did you know the universe was actually created......
Continue Reading "Morning Roundup: Friday eve edition"March 12, 2007
Good morning, Houston. Good news for anyone who loves to travel and have a spare $200,000 laying around: You can now buy tickets to space, with the journey set for 2009 on Richard Branson's space plane. More than 100 tickets have already been sold, and Houston travel agents Tara Hyland and Diane Vest are two of the only "Accredited Space Agents" offering them in the U.S. And yes, the tickets are $200K each. Anyone?......
Continue Reading "Morning Roundup: All aboard for space edition"January 24, 2007
It's a good thing when a school bus driver doesn't take any guff off the students on board his or her bus. But it's a bad thing when that means the driver kicks kids off the bus miles from home with no help and no protection — case in point, a Fort Bend ISD bus driver who did just that Monday. Eleven-year-old Laitfu Anderson and a fellow student at Hodges Bend Middle School were......
Continue Reading "The no-tolerance bus"April 27, 2006
This just in: Kids are getting high using over-the-counter cold medicines! Missouri City police have arrested a teen in the shooting death of a Fort Bend ISD student at a park yesterday Galveston has become the only city in Texas to have wheelchair-accessible beaches now that its public beach parks have been equipped with beach-friendly wheelchairs The Red Cross may have to cut its van service again because of rising gas prices And meanwhile, Bee......
Continue Reading "News Roundup"March 28, 2006
Hundreds of Houston-area students skipped school today to participate in rallies protesting tighter restrictions on immigration, some of them determined to march all the way from Missouri City to downtown. Among them were about 100 students from Jeff Davis High School, a few hundred from Austin and Sam Houston highs, 65 from Alief Hastings and nearly 100 from Eisenhower. A Davis student, Hector Arguelles, distributed a flyer giving a description of pending federal legislation that......
Continue Reading "Students join in immigration protests"