Pros
The children and the parents were great. I found them to be more professional and wanting the help of the community. I enjoyed seeing the academic progress the children made throughout the school year. Many of my parents were very helpful when it came to volunteering, whether it was it the classroom or planning field trips.
Cons
The worst thing about my 8 year experience at HISD was the Administration team. My first principal was a man who did not care about the children. He just wanted to find a teacher to have an affair with him. He also had most of his teachers cheat on the state exams. I am very surprise he got as far as he did. He spoke like he had only a 3rd grade education. He love to bully and harass the teachers that would not flirt with him. HISD promoted him to an Apollo 20 school. The second principal I worked under was female. She was into firing people to lower the school budget. She would even go and lie about teachers to keep her $74,000 per. year job. She too did not care about the well being of the students.