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

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Only since the deseg suit was settled has local control been in effect.

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So the Federal people weren't people??

They tried to fix the system in the 60s and 70s when Jim Crow was running it, remember?

Before they jumped in, we had full local control. It was great for me and others; however, we all know our black friends were getting the shaft time 100.

Sure the local people lost control, they wouldn't follow the law, and even when the Feds stepped in they fought tooth and nail to keep the old ways.

And fast forward to more recent times, even before the Feds got out of the way local citizens like myself and other supported and helped a huge school tax issue pass which finally provided funds to the school system that the school board said was desperately needed to help educate our children. Locals led this effort and it was responsible for the new and improved schools we see today as well as teacher pay raises, etc.

You want people to think nothing happened for decades and only a few years ago people became concerned. That can't be further from the truth.

People have been concerned about education and that's why systems like Baker, Zachary and Central were formed.

If you had any integrity at all, you'd quit running down SG folks, you'd listen to them, you'd debate them on the issues and stop painting them as crooks, racists, and malcontents because most of them are not.

But your behavior is clear, you won't stop. You'll keep calling SG names and infer that somehow you and your buddies in the city are intellectually superior and know all the answers.