re: Shreveport Mayoral Forum

Shreveport has a mayor? I thought they only had like a parish president or justice of the peace or something?

Its real easy to claim a top school when all the smart kids test in to the same school. Come high school the Caddo magnet schools are no better than an honors class at Haughton, Parkway, Benton, etc.

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You must be older if your remember those plaid skirts.

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Byrd 82 and yeah, I dated a couple of girls who wore the plaid skirts and these

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You graduated 4 years after me but I went the Shreve.

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Should of been 81, but skipping the first 3 mo. of my freshman year shot holes in that schedule.

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Shreveport has three of the top five elementary schools in the State, and BC isn't even close. Just saying.

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1. Shreveport is a 'D' system as graded by the state. Bossier is a 'B' system just a point away from 'A.'

2. South Highlands Magnet is a terrific elementary school in Shreveport. My grandchildren go there. The next 2 schools are not in the state's top 5.

Re: St. Vincent's Aca. I think that place shut down 30 years ago. They turned the building into a retirement home for aging nuns.

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Lots of my friends are supporting Provenza. I hear that Ollie woman is damn near senile.

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The latest poll has Ollie at No.1 and Provenza at No. 2. Surprising because Patrick Williams has waaaay more money to spend than anyone else in the race. But he comes across as a crook.

Re: senile. There is an old black man and an old white woman in the race that makes Ollie sound like a 20 year old. But those two are polling in single digits.

Stockwell Place ranks in at #48. Times have changed.

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1. Shreveport has the MOST FAILING SCHOOLS outside of New Orleans. And it ain't close to No. 3

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Shreveport also has an assload more schools than Bossier, and from different demographics. When you consider the "F" rated schools that Shreveport has in it's lower income areas, you can't forget the top Magnet Schools (which do exist in Shreveport, and not in Bossier).

So, even though Shreveport is full of underperforming schools, it hosts three of the best Elementary schools in the State, which Bossier does not even sniff. FACT.

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2. Bossier does not have elite Magnets. Shreveport has a few elite Magnets that are very good and a TON of Magnet 'components' which are crap.

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True, but the point is exactly what you said, Shreveport has a few of the states most elite schools and Bossier does not.

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3. Do you know the difference between 'B+' and 'D'? That's the states grading of Bossier v. Caddo.

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Yes, I do. What you don't seem to understand is that is an overall grade. My point is that Shreveport has better Elementary schools than Bossier. Eden Gardens, South Highlands, Fairfield, and do I need to keep going?

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4. Elite Magnet schools in Shreveport like Caddo Magnet HS, Caddo Middle Magnet and Southfield Elem Magnet are under constant pressure to be dissolved because they are almost all white/Asian with very few blacks. Eventually, they will be dissolved.

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I disagree, completely. My kids go to Eden Gardens (one of them now is at Caddo Middle Magnet), and there is no shortage of diversity at EG. South Highlands as well. The Magnet testing caters to low income, broken families, minorities, and siblings. Funny, because whites are the minority in Shreveport - but I think it is fair.

Yet, they still exist. Once again, Shreveport has better schools....

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5. A lot of upper class people in Bossier who would like to send their kids to an elite school simply send them across the river to Loyola Prep.

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This happens everywhere. It's called cheating the system.

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6. Shreveport is going to hell in a hand basket. Even a black liberal Dem candidate for Mayor said 'we're the next Detroit.'

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I wholeheartedly agree. It starts with the clash of classes in the City Council, and the inability for people to get on the same page despite diversity. This is Shreveport's big problem - priorities.

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7. Middle and Upper class people having been moving to Bossier for the last 15 years and the trend is continuing. And they are bringing the tax base with them.

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You are right - the "Great White Flight," as I have heard it called, is very real. People flocking to North Bossier and Benton for a myriad of reasons. Shreveport is a screwed up place, no doubt. There is really bad and really good - but it is home to me.