re: Louisiana High School Football will split Public/Private. **Edited with Yes/No**

the total was 53% split, 30% status quo, 15% absent, 1% abstain

so it was a majority vote. fair enough

now to figure out what happens next on both sides

quote:

---

I'll suggest to you that your recollection of Barbe baseball is no different that how most good private school programs remember their teams as well.

---

barbe baseball = SLC all stars

if you weren't invited, you had to try out. one guy made the team who wasn't from the SLCLL machine (my friend from houston)

it may be different now, but that's how it was when i went there

quote:

---

Especially before the demographic shift of LC pushed the majority of the white (baseball-playing) population to the southwest side of town, kids in the SLC system would migrate to Barbe before or during high school

---

so like...the 80s?

i was born in north lake charles in 1983. while SLC has expanded, these people weren't living where i lived at any point in my life

Since public is behind this then they should go all out...ANY transfers into public schools should require a one year sit out no exceptions
All holdbacks unless illness or academics (less than 2.0 GPA) should require a one year sit out.
Last if you turn 19 during your senior year you can not participate in athletics period

You are missing my point. But I will play along. How many "attendance zones" are in the New Orleans metro area?

mid-90s, when it was shifting from a competitive Barbe-LaGrange rivalry to one where everybody was going to Barbe. There were kids like Yogi Ceasar who flat out transferred, kids kids that lived in the LG zone but got school board approval for the move or skirted around the rules (no names, don't want to throw anybody under the bus) and kids who moved during junior high to be able to go to Barbe and play.

Now, part of this is the early-mid 90s is when LaGrange was experiencing the bulk of its white flight, so one might argue if a certain player who used to ride his bike from his home a few blocks away from Brentwood Park to play LL games all of a sudden is playing for Barbe, it may be a legit move based on a sold house and a move to a "newer, nicer" house in SW LC.

But what's the difference in that and a white football player who might have gone from Broadmoor Middle to Catholic High in the 90s (not in the Broadmoor zone) for the same reason?

This is complete hypocrisy from the Barbe standpoint.

summary: lots of butt hurt by a bunch of small public schools that don't matter

in true LA fashion, they just nuke it all instead of creating an intelligent plan

So will Neville still pursue their charter now?

here are the factions:

NORLA community schools that dont have private schools in their area. North LA people dont understand the enrollment mess that South LA has going on. Example - Winnfield

state wide community schools that do have private schools in their area and are tired of losing kids to the privates Example Crowley High and Notre Dame

Public 3A, 4A and 5A schools that dont want to deal with ECA and JC in their class

VS

Private schools
Magnet schools
Charter schools

Caught in the middle? Class B and Class C schools

If there is a full blown private split it will be because the privayes know this isnt the end of it, it is just the beginning. Football is the first step but this will not quiet the public volleyball/basketball schools and the public baseball/softball schools that are being dominated by select enrollment schools.

quote:

---

NORLA community schools that dont have private schools in their area. North LA people dont understand the enrollment mess that South LA has going on. Example - Winnfield

---

I already had this fight with an in-law, whose wife is a public school teacher in North LA, with regard to Jindal's charter school push.

He pretty much didn't give a frick how messed up the school systems are in BR, NOLA, Lake Chuck, etc., and didn't seem too thrilled about some of the solutions that the areas had which got blocked by the legislature, such as the aborted EBR ISD.

quote:

---

the biggest issue is paying for school

---

Here is the only difference between LC and Baton Rouge/New Orleans, where the bulk of the private school powers are:

In Lake Charles, there was still a good public school option in Barbe. If you want to live in south Baton Rouge and not have to move out to the suburbs and still get your kid in a good athletics program you HAVE to fork out the money to private school. You have no choice.

And I'm not saying this because EBR has lost 90 percent of its Caucasian enrollment (just a guess). I say it because EBR limits coaching staff sizes to less than what their competitors have, EBR has tougher GPA restrictions than rival places and EBR has such a crappy history with bussing and a lack of continuity between elementary-middle-high school districts that it's nearly impossible to build a system that extends beyond when a player first sets foot in your school.

Lake Charles has Barbe and Monroe has West Monroe (and Neville) which will always draw students based on having advantages the other schools lack...the exact same advantages that give people in New Orleans and Baton Rouge the reasons why they send their kids to Rummel, Jesuit, BM, Curtis, Parkview, UHigh, Caholic, etc.

And can somebody tell me what Caddo Parish's record with football was before Evangel became the trendy destination for high school players? Are Monroe football players just BETTER than Shreveport football players or was there something institutional with Caddo Parish schools that did not allow their football programs to reach their full potential?