Our "search" started after we enrolled our oldest daughter, Aubrey, at school in Waco ISD, in Waco, Texas. The neighborhood we lived in had a school not more than 2 blocks away, but they were doing "Bilingual Only" Pre-K. Which meant that since my daughter DOES NOT speak Spanish, she had to go to a different school. Of course, buses were not provided. So, we took her further across town to another school. We didn't even mind, because we thought it was in a "better" part of town anyway. We were very wrong. She told me that another child in her class had told her how to steal a bike. These are 4-year-old's we are talking about!

To get my child away from that, I moved to the next town over, which is where I went to school. I now drive twice as far to work and I pay too much for an apartment that is too small for my family so that my daughter can go to a great school. And, believe me, the schools in Hewitt are academically outstanding. But being a poor kid in a very wealthy suburb is eventually going to cause more problems of its own. I'm just so thankful to have her in a better school, I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.