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WAFB investigates students being given grades in an EBR School
Posted on 5/9/14 at 8:38 am
Posted on 5/9/14 at 8:38 am
They also uncover a lack of discipline as well as corruption beginning with Supt, Taylor. It aired last night on the 10:00pm news.
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There are people who will tell you that we are better together, but what parent interested in their child's education would want their children to be part of that? I certainly wouldn't.
After reading this report maybe some might be able to get an idea of why many in EBR want a do over, they want to try it themselves, and they want their own separate school system apart from the corruption.
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More than a dozen teachers are ready to call it quits at just one local public school in East Baton Rouge Parish. Educators are saying the main reasons they're throwing in the towel are a lack of discipline and increasing violence inside the classrooms.
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All three sat down with the I-team on the condition of concealing their identities, saying they fear retaliation. When asked if the teachers had ever been verbally abused by a student in their classroom, all three answered, "Yes." All three also said they had been physically assaulted by a student in their class.
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"Joe" is calling it quits saying instead of him grading students on how they should be graded, administrators are dictating what grades he needs to hand out.
"Told me it was my fault that he has a failing grade, and that I should give him a "C," said Joe. "I was told that I had too many failing and not to fail their seniors."
When asked why, Joe said, "It looks bad on the school, and it goes against our school score."
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Another teacher said those school performance scores take top priority and trump everything else.
"Well, when you talk about administrators, I think it's important to note that it comes from the top. It doesn't always come from our principals at our schools. They're handcuffed. They're puppets to Dr. Taylor, Dr. Ramos and Dr. Haggen," said Jane.
There are people who will tell you that we are better together, but what parent interested in their child's education would want their children to be part of that? I certainly wouldn't.
After reading this report maybe some might be able to get an idea of why many in EBR want a do over, they want to try it themselves, and they want their own separate school system apart from the corruption.
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Posted on 5/9/14 at 8:48 am to doubleb
Don't get me wrong charter schools have their problems, but at least they have a choice...
Posted on 5/9/14 at 8:48 am to doubleb
I've had people in classes at LSU who went to woodlawn, mckinley, dutchtown, etc, who didn't know what a semicolon was. Not how to use one, just straight up didn't know what it was.
ETA: multiple instances, like over 10
ETA: multiple instances, like over 10
This post was edited on 5/9/14 at 8:49 am
Posted on 5/9/14 at 8:53 am to ManBearTiger
Agreed, as a current student I have seen the same issues. It makes me really sad for these kids. Because they really don't know, and they should. I wish that everyone would be receptive to learn and that these kids could hAve some of the teachers that I had.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 8:56 am to chesty
Problem is, once they're in college they're beyond accepting new material. I know for a fact that instructors, specifically grad students within the English Dept. at LSU, let "diverse" students slide on basic grammar and sentence structure.
This post was edited on 5/9/14 at 9:01 am
Posted on 5/9/14 at 8:57 am to doubleb
I hear certain races of teachers are bullied by teachers of other races in EBR schools. I wonder the ethnicity of the quitting teachers?
Posted on 5/9/14 at 9:03 am to ManBearTiger
Are you sure about Dutchtown? I have heard nothing but good things about that school for years.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 9:24 am to doubleb
And to think St. George wants to get away from all this. 
Posted on 5/9/14 at 9:25 am to doubleb
But according to Russian and his ilk, everything is getting better in the school system. News reports like this, and this, are just one of many reasons why young families have been flocking to areas with better schools. Those that are fed up and want change are called racist and terrorists.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 9:26 am to doubleb
lesson do your best to get your kid to a private school in Louisiana (not including college). Public schools are horrible in this state and can't lead you to success like a private school does. This leads to a falling of standards across the board. If you have bad public schools than less qualified people make it to college, so teachers have to grade easy to keep up with the bell curve, colleges become easier to do well in and the standards keep going down and down. I hate the idea of public schools anyway they are usually less successful than private schools and they can really give a state budget issues.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 9:47 am to doubleb
Didn't Bobby pass the world's greatest education reform bill not long ago? How can this continue to be happening with such strong and just legislation standing against it? The entire story must, therefore, be a complete lie.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:03 am to catholictigerfan
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I hate the idea of public schools anyway they are usually less successful than private schools
There are private schools out there that are worse than public schools.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:05 am to c on z
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There are private schools out there that are worse than public schools.
of course there are exceptions, I know in some other states public schools are actually pretty good, but in this state you have a better chance of getting a good education at a private school vs a public school. If you live in Louisiana and even more specifically New Orleans or Baton Rouge you should try and go to a private school vs public.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:09 am to sec13rowBBseat28
You are obsessed with me. Get your own life.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:18 am to LSURussian
quote:Hardly, you're one of the only dumbasses who thinks the EBRPSS is headed in the right direction.
You are obsessed with me.
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Get your own life.
This coming from a guy that spends sun up to sun down on a message board opposing St George.Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:30 am to sec13rowBBseat28
quote:Just to show how your obsession with me includes lying about my position on the education system in EBR.....
Hardly, you're one of the only dumbasses who thinks the EBRPSS is headed in the right direction.
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" Maybe this will stop the brew ha ha."-doubleb
I personally don't want it to stop "the brewhaha." I want the pressure to stay on both the CP government and the school board to work even harder for improvements.
The worst thing that could happen now for our parish would be for Holden or the EBR school board to take a victory lap and ignore the issues. That would royally piss me off.
And that includes if the recent grade changing episode leads to Taylor, then he needs to be fired along with anyone who participated in it.
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I'm flattered for all the attention you keep heaping on me, but you really need to know what you're talking about or you'll just continue to look stupid. And obsessed.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:38 am to sec13rowBBseat28
Articles like the original post just show that we need common core and testing. Then you won't have students just given a "C" for free and shuffled upward and then graduating without knowing how to read or add.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:39 am to doubleb
The EBR School system is even worse than everyone thought. The "improvement" that is often referenced is probably non-existent and all manufactured.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:45 am to doubleb
It is schools that are at the heart of the STG movement and this is the damning evidence as to why they should be given control of "their" shools ASAP but the idiots in charge are fighting as hard as they can possibly to prevent it.
Posted on 5/9/14 at 10:47 am to sec13rowBBseat28
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But according to Russian and his ilk, everything is getting better in the school system.
I think he's more in the "it's not perfect but we're gonna try really hard to make it better in the future" camp.
Whether that movement will pan out remains to be seen, but I seriously doubt it ever comes to fruition. Keep the status quo, don't rock the boat, business as usual.
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