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PBS Frontline covers St. George
Posted on 7/11/14 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 7/11/14 at 10:08 pm
Saw a preview for this on LPB today. LINK /
Overview of the show is segregation, and it apparently specifically spotlights the whole Baton Rouge vs. St. George thing here. Airs 7/15, should be interesting.
Overview of the show is segregation, and it apparently specifically spotlights the whole Baton Rouge vs. St. George thing here. Airs 7/15, should be interesting.
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Posted on 7/11/14 at 11:09 pm to Handbasket
Considering the large percentage of minority students who would, from day one, be in St George Public Schools, it seems absurd to suggest creating SGPS is a move toward re-segregation. One could argue there is a shot that SGPS would, in the beginning, be more integrated than EBRPS. That is of course assuming that most private school kids in SG stay in their private schools.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 11:23 pm to Handbasket
I'm sure it will be a very fair and objective piece. 
Posted on 7/11/14 at 11:30 pm to Handbasket
This should serve to expose Baton Rouge for the racists they are.
It's not a secret. Baton Rouge is very racist.
It's not a secret. Baton Rouge is very racist.
Posted on 7/11/14 at 11:35 pm to Handbasket
Yep, sounds like it will be full of half-truths and race-baiting stupidity.
But to be fair, a lot of people in St George are duped into believing that the new school district will mean fewer students being bussed in from poor black areas, when that simply isn't true. Deseg is over so hardly anything would change in that the area is already returning to neighborhood schools.
It'll give the St George politicians a taste of their own medicine, I guess.
But to be fair, a lot of people in St George are duped into believing that the new school district will mean fewer students being bussed in from poor black areas, when that simply isn't true. Deseg is over so hardly anything would change in that the area is already returning to neighborhood schools.
It'll give the St George politicians a taste of their own medicine, I guess.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 5:20 am to GeorgeWest
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Considering the large percentage of minority students who would, from day one, be in St George Public Schools,
Yes - we know St. George has a black friend.This post was edited on 7/12/14 at 5:21 am
Posted on 7/12/14 at 6:00 am to BRgetthenet
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Baton Rouge is very racist.
Yep. Those racist will beat you nearly to death if you buy gas on Plank Road.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 6:07 am to SpidermanTUba
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Yes - we know St. George has a black friend.
They are liberal? because that is the liberal go to line
Posted on 7/12/14 at 6:14 am to TrueTiger
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Yep. Those racist will beat you nearly to death if you buy gas on Plank Road.
Do you live in Baton Rouge?
Posted on 7/12/14 at 6:14 am to gthog61
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They are liberal? because that is the liberal go to line
Whatever you say.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 6:20 am to SpidermanTUba
Not currently.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 8:20 am to BRgetthenet
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This should serve to expose Baton Rouge for the racists they are. It's not a secret. Baton Rouge is very racist.
Parents know what the 'hood' culture is, BR; you really think some loving parent who is DISCRIMINATORY in regard to the cultural influences they allow their beloved children to be exposed to and pressured by...will be just fine with dumping them into an environment like that of the aggressive 'hood'.
Any loving and responsible parent won't let their kids socialize with the WHITE trailer park mentality either.
"Racists"...my arse. More like responsible.
ETA, if many Blacks (problem/hood version) end up in the SG school district, at least with proper school board control...the problem ones can be zapped. Which will be good for Blacks and Whites. Make it...children...minus the color.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 9:54 am to Handbasket
What is racist about wanting to send your kid to a good school in a good school system?
A decade or do ago the cry was to make BR like Austin Texas. Well guess what, Travis County where Austin is has a dozen or so ISDs.
So are we suppose to model ourselves after Austin except when it comes to schools?
Btw 60 years ago Austin was smaller than BR, now it is much much larger. Schools are a big part of that equation.
A decade or do ago the cry was to make BR like Austin Texas. Well guess what, Travis County where Austin is has a dozen or so ISDs.
So are we suppose to model ourselves after Austin except when it comes to schools?
Btw 60 years ago Austin was smaller than BR, now it is much much larger. Schools are a big part of that equation.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 10:12 am to doubleb
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Schools are a big part of that equation.
No it's not. Austin is just a better locale and cooler.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 10:22 am to Handbasket
Everyone knew St. George was about white parents not wanting to send their precious little darlings to public school with gasp black children.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 10:25 am to Rickety Cricket
I know nothing about this particular situation, but what I've usually seen in these situations are parents not wanting their kids to go to school with ghetto trash. It's not racial as much as economic.
This post was edited on 7/12/14 at 10:26 am
Posted on 7/12/14 at 11:21 am to cwill
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This post was edited on 7/12/14 at 11:23 am
Posted on 7/12/14 at 11:22 am to cwill
Better locale and weather explains it all?
Nothing to do with a different tax code or better public schools?
But there us no arguing with you. You obviously put a lot of deep thought into it.
Nothing to do with a different tax code or better public schools?
But there us no arguing with you. You obviously put a lot of deep thought into it.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 2:44 pm to doubleb
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Nothing to do with a different tax code or better public schools?
Tax code sure, but schools no, not a big part. People that moved to Austin to create the burgeoning city for the most part were young and single. BR will never be Austin regardless of how many ISDs it has.
Posted on 7/12/14 at 3:35 pm to cwill
Unless the demographics change, Baton Rouge will ALWAYS be full of bad students. There's nothing government, teachers, or school districts can do to change that.
This post was edited on 7/12/14 at 3:37 pm
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