Kempner High School
High school in Sugar Land, TexasWikipedia
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Oct 15, 2026
Ryan RendonHOST
He grew up in the Houston suburbs, played at Kempner.
Bill WilderGUEST
Yeah, Kempner High School.
Ryan RendonHOST
Kempner and Sugar Land and showed up at Texas A&M planning to become a veterinarian right up until he called his dad and said he'd rather coach.
Ryan RendonHOST
His father told him that.
Melissa AnahayCORRESPONDENT
Large student populations that'll move include Travis High School in Richmond, moving to George Bush in the Mission Bend area, and Elkins High School in Missouri City to Clements in Sugar Land.
Melissa AnahayCORRESPONDENT
Some students zoned to Kempner and Dulles will also be moved.
Melissa AnahayCORRESPONDENT
Vice President Angie Hannon says the board's vote was not easy.
Angie HannonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We are impacting our students, and we're impacting, um, families and how they get students to school.
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The story of a devout but conflicted sword-wielding Muslim hitman named Latif, played by Mahershala Ali, whose wife has died and left behind a formula-allergic infant, forcing dad to hunt all over town for the real deal.
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While that might sound like some strange setup in search of a punchline, for Pakistani-born director-writer Bassam Tariq, who came of age in Houston, Kempner High, represent, and now divides his time between New York City and H-Town, the situation was no laughing matter.
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"In twenty fourteen, when my wife gave birth to our first son, she had an infection, was sent into the emergency room, and my son was only taking breast milk," says Tariq, thirty-nine, in an interview during a recent visit to Houston in advance of a sold-out screening of Your Mother at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival.
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"He wasn't able to take any formula.