re: New group enters fray on future of EBR school system. Seeks new legislation.

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The sad fact that I think everyone knows but doesn't want to admit - but which is evident from the St. George movement and the cynical responses to this thread - is that a lot of folks don't want to fix the EBR public school system.

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Have you followed the EBR school saga for very long?

If you have you'd know people have been trying to fix the system for decades now.

First it was the Federal people along with the Federal judge who really fixed things.

After that good government types, and the community got together and worked for a better school system

this resulted in a big tax measure passing that funded teacher pay raises, school improvements, and a very large capital campaign to add school, add onto schools, and to remodel older schools.

Subsequent to these efforts the Feds got out of the way and a consent degree put the school system back into local control.

Baker, Zachary and then Central weren't satisfied with any of this and pulled out of the system and formed their own systems.

Recently the state has become more involved taking over failing schools. Jindal and his people have made a big push in that department.

The problem is we've had school board after school board and supt. after supt. make promises to make the EBR system a good system; these promises have fallen short of people's expectations.

Now I'm not here to tell you some things aren't better because there are bright spots. BRHS magnet and other magnet and gifted programs are excellent. There are also some excellent schools inside the system besides BRHS. But overall progress has been slow and people still believe that because of politics and tenure we still don't have enough good teachers and principals and that not enough schools are rated average or above average.

The group Russian posted about obviously cares as have other groups including the SG group. If they didn't care we wouldn't be where we are today, discussing education and ways to make the schools better. We wouldn't have voted higher taxes to fund better schools. We wouldn't be going back and forth on a typewriter if we didn't care.