 Residents cited a section of the Texas Education Code that allows a given area to secede from the school district they are zoned to if another district will agree to absorb them.Jim McIngvale, Northgate Forest resident and owner of regional furniture retailer Gallery Furniture (and as such, well known on local radio and television commercials as "Mattress Mac,") said that he disagreed with the proposal.In April 2007, the Klein ISD Board of Trustees denied Northgate's petition for detachment, shortly after Spring ISD unanimously rejected the proposal.