HOUSTONNorth Forest ISD Board of Trustees, administration and joined with the community to bring back Pride Week, a week of events that beganNov. 5, 2007, and culminated on Nov. 10, 2007, with a community parade in the afternoon and the Battle of the Bands that evening.
Pride Week is a great opportunity for the district to show our community that we are a team, said Toni Neely Dunn, NFISDs fine arts coordinator and head of the Pride Week planning committee.
The community parade began at 1 p.m. on Saturday, starting at Homestead and Tidwell and progressed to the new central administration building at Homestead and Little York. The parade featured NFISD dance teams, cheerleaders, bands and other students groups. District employees as well as area community and church organizations that were invited to take part in the parade.
The entire focus of Pride Week is unity, said NFISD Interim Superintendent of Schools William Jones. Its about everyone in this district coming together and letting those around us know that we have a district that we can and must take pride in. We have talented students. We have hard working employees and we have a supportive community.
The Battle of Bands took place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007 at Jones Cowart Stadium and featured more than a dozen bands from Louisiana and Texas.
Campus-centered events were scheduled during the school week, including essay and poster contests and Student Exchange Day, which allowrf students from one campus to visit another. Another Pride Week highlight took place at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, when M.B. Smiley and Forest Brook High Schools met on the football field at Jones-Cowart in the Pride Bowl.
