re: What schools would ST. George affect?

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The whole "neighborhood school" argument is baseless for St George. 

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TrollllLOLOL!
You're either delusional, lying or trolling. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here, but get back under the bridge now, please.

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Tara is the temp replacement for the Lee High students.

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Parents begged them not to shut down Lee High. It's been home to the magnet school while BR high was being renovated and now the facilities at Lee High need to be replaced. It won't be open again as a high school for years.

Currently Tara students in St. George are bused in from as far away as O'Neal lane and the southwest corner of the parish.

Tara isn't the only problem. There's also need for another middle school (perhaps two) in the St. George area, where students in the southwestern part of the parish are sent past existing Kenilworth and Glasgow schools to attend Westdale in mid city. Students in Old South Baton Rouge are sent down to to Glasgow and Kenilworth despite Westdale being the nearest school (by far).

No, son. I fully understand that Woodlawn isn't close to everyone in St George, but that was my point about 1 school versus 11 in St George area. Just because they screwed us for decades doesn't mean it's too late to form our own and make it right.

It's obvious you are not knowledgeable about the schools. You complain about Kenilworth not knowing it's a magnet charter school. So, I'll leave it to you to argue without knowing what you're arguing about.

I'm going to concentrate on the football game now. The team needs me!

LSURussian is pretty much on-point in this thread.

I don't think St George will affect a lot of the inner city schools. They will just shift the population not in St George to fill spots at Tara, Broadmoor, Belaire, and if a new Lee High is built.

You may see a new group of kids from lower middle class families that were in private school or outside the area moving into this area to attend St George Schools.

I don't think St George will get the signatures or votes to become a city. It is sad because the young families with kids is the group we need to help keep BR alive and growing in the future will be in neighboring parishes. South EBRP will look like Florida Blvd in 10 to 15 years while Sherwood, Broadmoor, and East Florida Blvd will be like North Baton Rouge.

It will be a matter of time before Ascension and Livingston Parish start building shopping centers, movie theaters, and developments like Perkins Rowe that will attract the businesses along with the sales in South EBRP.

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what IS the solution to our public school problem?

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Why do people think government is responsible for fixing cultures that produce shitty students?

For the most part, a school is only as good as it's students. All you can do is move them around or have a more selective enrollment.

So you think we should just continue along as we are?

Why NOT give SG a chance?

I also do not believe it's the govts responsibility to fix our schools. It's OUR responsibility. That's why the plan for sg was born in the first place. We want responsibility for the schools close to us bc EBR is in WAAAYYY over their heads.

I agree TigerRob20.

I sat at a BR Chamber meeting in Iberville Parish listening about how BR does not need a loop. They said we have the right of way to connect I-10 to 3125 which will send that traffic to New Orleans.

Then I remember living in Shreveport remembering about the town having an inner loop, burt kouns industrial loop, and an Outer loop. Shreveport thought things out.