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re: How to kill St.George.
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:36 pm to LSURussian
Posted on 12/22/14 at 4:36 pm to LSURussian
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But mainly it's the lies being told by the SG organizers that I can't let go unchallenged. And all because they want a taxpayer funded sandbox to play in.
Right now the EBRSS is playing in a big sandbox(to use your term) that they created by lying to voters and telling them that only if they had the money that they could make our schools better, get us better teachers, and they could provide us with disciplined schools. The voters bought into those lies and we have what we have now, a substandard school system ranked 43rd. in the state of La.
They also told us it was all the Feds fault, and now that we were finally out of Federal control things would change for the better. Are things better? In 2013 we were 41st, now we are 43rd in the state. a state that is always ranked near the bottom.
Bigger is not always better, and its easier to watch the "kids" playing in a small sandbox (St. George) than a great big sandbox(EBRSS).
St. George wants their own "sandbox". People here are tired of playing in the one run by the EBR Parish School Board.
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Posted on 12/22/14 at 11:13 pm to doubleb
Read the research on the subject. Small school districts have greater public support than larger districts do. EBRP should most likley have even more separate districts than just SG.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 9:01 am to GeorgeWest
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Read the research on the subject. Small school districts have greater public support than larger districts do. EBRP should most likley have even more separate districts than just SG.
Smaller districts do have advantages. They are easier to "police", you tend to get more community support, and generally speaking students attend school closer to their homes.
The disadvantages would be being larger lets you take care of special needs children better, and the ability to have other special schools such as gifted schools and magnet schools.
Perhaps a parish wide system for children with special needs and a parish wide system for magnet kids would be best, but smaller districts for those that do not need special opportunities and want to stay close to home.
I think the Chamber was angling at something like that.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 9:43 am to doubleb
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Perhaps a parish wide system for children with special needs and a parish wide system for magnet kids would be best, but smaller districts for those that do not need special opportunities and want to stay close to home.
The SEBR school district would lose most of its opposition and would happen this year if the leaders of StG/LSLC would agree to this. BRAC now controls the EBR school board and is on record supporting a break up while maintaining access to magnets.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 10:07 am to Shaun176
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The SEBR school district would lose most of its opposition and would happen this year if the leaders of StG/LSLC would agree to this. BRAC now controls the EBR school board and is on record supporting a break up while maintaining access to magnets
What we have now is obviously broke, and needs to be fixed.
hopefully next year there will be a serious dialogue as to what can be done. Maybe BRAC could take the lead on this.
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