re: St. George organizers submit petition with signatures

I would like to see a parish-wide police force or at least a merger between EBRSO and BRPD but I don't think that would ever happen.

I honestly don't have many nice things to say about law enforcement in Baton Rouge or their leadership.

I see the public school situation as hopeless, but that's not unique to Baton Rouge or Louisiana. Real education reform is a political impossibility. I think the establishment of a new school district would help the maintain the parish tax base, but I fear that the leadership (if you can call it that) within the EBR parish school board would dismantle the magnet program, which is one of their few bright spots.

What I see here is a grassroots movement attempting to change their situation through a democratic process, and some factions within an established government doing everything in their power to legally fight it. Sometimes the democratic process gets ugly.

I think St George schools will eventually happen one way or another.