I see you live in Prairieville. As a parent who had a child named "Student of the Year" at an Ascension school, I can tell you that Ascension was unable to provide the challenging curriculum that my child required. EBRPS could.

If Ascension built a top end Magnet program, they would knock it out of the park. I'm still not sure why they haven't. Maybe because it's not easy to do. The decimation of the EBRPS Magnet Schools will be one of the many negative unintended consequences of St. George.

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Posted by ell_13

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Posted on 10/21/14 at 9:26 am to Lsupimp

so EBR Magnet school > Ascension PS?

And what about those who can't get into the magnet program? frick them, right?

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Posted by Lsupimp

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Posted on 10/21/14 at 9:30 am to Lsupimp

The "neighborhood school" approach, which I championed for years, is NOT the correct one, IF YOU LIVE IN A GHETTO. There has to be a way to get the good, deserving kids out of the impossible environment of their ghetto peers and into a safe learning environment. As much as this offends sensibilities, when you are dealing with the kids EBRPS has to deal with, the best approach may be to adopt a wider two-tiered approach.

Further warehouse the incorrigibles/shitheads who screw things up for their classmates, and let the good kids who want to learn get on a bus and go to a decent school. There are so many great students coming out of the worst neighborhoods, and those are the kids that truly need some kind of opportunity. EBRPS has actually addressed their needs pretty well with the magnet/gifted programs. And they are left with thousands of other kids who are just academically hopeless and then condemned for not magically transforming them.

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