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re: LEAP results: EBR continues to decline
Posted on 7/13/17 at 3:56 pm to PiscesTiger
Posted on 7/13/17 at 3:56 pm to PiscesTiger
If all the kids stayed at their neighborhood schools, the few schools in those poor areas would be extremely low and no one would want to teach there. They already tried "state takeovers" where the so-called "experts" came in and threatened to shut down low-performing schools (some eventually were). Racism would be alleged more than it is now. That's why EBR "spreads the wealth" and buses kids all over the parish. That way all the schools suffer a little blow rather than a few schools in the bad parts of the parish suffering the full brunt.
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Posted on 7/13/17 at 3:58 pm to I am GLORIOUS
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LEAP results: EBR continues to decline
The next great city of St George is on the way folks.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 3:58 pm to High C
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They would effectively be defunded for violation of court orders.
It seems they have achieved a one race system with their current policies. I would think they are in violation right now.
This post was edited on 7/13/17 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:02 pm to Loubacca
They have, but the court orders don't account for voluntary exits from the school system. Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:08 pm to High C
Seriously though, I would think that there is enough diversity throughout the city to where this would not be a problem (instituting neighborhood schools). Realistically, what are the chances in achieving perfect racial balance at every school?
This post was edited on 7/13/17 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:10 pm to Loubacca
How does Texas get away with having schools that are 60% white with another 90% Hispanic and black one two miles down the road via neighborhood schools but Louisiana can't do the same?
This post was edited on 7/13/17 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:13 pm to tylercsbn9
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How does Texas get away with having schools that are 70% white with another 90% Hispanic and black one two miles down the road via neighborhood schools but Louisiana can't do the same?
The NAACP hasn't made its way there yet to instigate lawsuits?
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:14 pm to tylercsbn9
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How does Texas get away with having schools that are 70% white with another 90% Hispanic and black one two miles down the road via neighborhood schools but Louisiana can't do the same?
Exactly. It seems that it would be impossible to create a truly equal racial makeup at each school. Logically, this doesn't seem possible. I know that the last superintendent made the comment that you can't have school choice and neighborhood schools. This was in reference to many people in NBR wanting neighborhood schools because they were busing them across town to a "D" or "F" school. So, what is the point of busing and school choice at that point?
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:17 pm to Loubacca
Go to the school in the neighborhood in which you live. Very simple. Problem is, black families don't want to send their kids to their neighborhood schools because they're no good.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:18 pm to I am GLORIOUS
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Go to the school in the neighborhood in which you live. Very simple. Problem is, black families don't want to send their kids to their neighborhood schools because they're no good.
That was the point of my last post. They are starting to want neighborhood schools because they are busing across town to a crappy school, so why bus? If everything not magnet is crap, why bother with busing?
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:20 pm to I am GLORIOUS
Well the schools they bus them to are shite too
This is a case of ruining shite for everyone instead of a few.
If EBR had neighborhood schools, there would be some crap ones but there would also be middle of the road ones and good ones. Instead ever single one is shite.
This is a case of ruining shite for everyone instead of a few.
If EBR had neighborhood schools, there would be some crap ones but there would also be middle of the road ones and good ones. Instead ever single one is shite.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:21 pm to Loubacca
The busing is a primary reason why they're crap. Schools like Woodlawn wouldn't be nearly that low.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:27 pm to Loubacca
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They are starting to want neighborhood schools because they are busing across town to a crappy school, so why bus? If everything not magnet is crap, why bother with busing?
What kind of bussing you're talking about? There has been a period of time when schools in BR either closed or went to RSD. The kids at that point still had to go to school somewhere. That lead to schools like Tara and Broadmoor High having their districts redrawn to take in those particular kids.
This post was edited on 7/13/17 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:30 pm to c on z
i.e. the transfer station
When my son started 1st grade they wanted to bus him to the transfer station at 6:30 am and then put him on another bus to Broadmoor Elementary to help him with his speech. WTF?
When my son started 1st grade they wanted to bus him to the transfer station at 6:30 am and then put him on another bus to Broadmoor Elementary to help him with his speech. WTF?
This post was edited on 7/13/17 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 7/13/17 at 4:36 pm to PiscesTiger
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Give the damn kids a salad bar and take away Big Texas honeybuns.
You'll have to take them from their cold, dead hands. The kids love the honeybuns.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 6:04 pm to PiscesTiger
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And stop re-zoning kids. Kids start at Belaire and then go to Tara and end up at Glen Oaks.
This is not new and is still beyond belief. When JJP's order went into effect in 1981-2, I had a friend living in Sherwood forest, somewhere close to Stockton. They bussed his little brother past Broadmoor to Tara. What did that accomplish, bussing him from one predominantly white school to another?
Totally off topic, but what are they doing with the land that Broadmoor Elementary sat on? It is about 15-20 acres of once prime real estate.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 6:24 pm to Hangit
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Totally off topic, but what are they doing with the land that Broadmoor Elementary sat on? It is about 15-20 acres of once prime real estate.
That school is getting rebuilt.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 6:35 pm to Mung
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Baker and Zachary had very similar populations. Lots of blue collar plant workers, white and black, few private options other than Redemptorist. In 1982 Scotlandville High was closed, and half those kids went to Baker, the other half went to Glen Oaks/Belaire/elsewhere. Central and Zachary were too far to bus them, so those schools stayed with local kids. The white exodus began from Baker, and now all my classmates live in Central, Zachary and BR or elsewhere, not Baker. Zachary retained its local students with interested local parents and support, and now are the top district in the State.
Not entirely correct. Central did get a portion of Scottlandville kids, some of Glenn Oaks and Baker also. A potion of its (Central) student body, mostly white, were shipped off to the new Northwestern High School.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 6:43 pm to Alltheway Tigers!
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Central did get a portion of Scottlandville kids
They were supposed to get the other half, but pulled some strings. I never saw a single black kid at any of the athletic events, Baker v. Central. How many were there?
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A potion of its (Central) student body, mostly white, were shipped off to the new Northwestern High School.
Baker got some Central kids from the Blackwater Road area too, and we knew the guys who went to GO as they all played baseball.
Posted on 7/13/17 at 10:01 pm to Mung
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Central did get a portion of Scottlandville kids
They were supposed to get the other half, but pulled some strings. I never saw a single black kid at any of the athletic events, Baker v. Central. How many were there?
Dunno. Blacks kept to themselves mostly. Just as tragic for them as they had to wake up early and go to a school they never knew existed. Not much old school spirit for them. It wasnt their neighborhood.
Not sure what strings you are referring to.
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