re: WAFB investigates students being given grades in an EBR School

Who the hell does Queen Bernard Taylor think he is? Why does this fairy act so entitled that he cannot answer simple questions? Is this a-hole ever reachable? You're in the top spot, douchebag. Answer the public's questions and stop ignoring easy to answer, yet very crucial questions.

If EBR doesn't do something FAST and get Taylor and his boyfriend Haggan out of office; not to mention, the worst of them is Ramos...then EBRPSS is going to be fricked for a long time. It will NEVER get better. There is no harm in canning these clowns. I have met, now, too many teachers who have left the system.

Taylor and co. were canned in Michigan and have no idea how the culture works down here...it is NOT Detroit or Brooklyn, but all you'll hear about is how they "solved problems" in those districts.

I would nominate half of Tiger Droppings as Superintendent choices before I would want Queen Taylor to stay another day...and I do not teach in EBRPSS. I hope somehow that these assholes get canned and canned HARD. They deserve nothing but. These pricks are running the system into the ground and if you live in EBR, you should also be concerned. Even if your child attends elsewhere, a city is only as good as its public schools. In 5 years, Baton Rouge is going to be a miniature version of Baghdad.

It must be depressing to be a teacher in EBRPSS. My mom teaches high school and sounds miserable all the time

After the state questioned the graduation statistics , etc. and then WAFB ran this story yesterday; how can anyone really know in which direction the parish system is going.

The shame is I'd bet there are a lot of dedicated people in the system really trying hard, and then they see stuff like this now.

I know for a fact this happens outside of EBR also - in a school in a parish with supposedly better schools than EBR.

The irony is that Russian says that EBRPSS shows "slight" improvement and then dances around like MC Hammer on a three day meth bender when local media CONTINUALLY come out with reports of grade-giving, teacher intimidation and top-down directives from Administration to move the needle and show "slight" improvement in things like grades, graduation rates, and discipline that's easy to see is the only reason he or any other supporter of the system as it is now is "slight"-ly improving at all!

They're changing grades, handing out diplomas, preventing proper discipline and doing it all to show just "slight" improvement. The reality is that true progress in the system is stagnant if not outright moving farther away, and he's busy creating political boogie men out of St. George supporters and local politicians.

Fiddling while Rome burns...head buried firmly-and deeply-in the sand. Or his own rectum. Or Taylor's. Take your pick to complete that metaphor. But his willful, repugnant ignorance regarding this expresses his ultimate and obvious vested interest in the maintenance in the status quo within an obviously flawed and corrupted system.

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I'm on the fence about standardized testing; on one hand it leaks to schools teaching towards a test and doing everything they can to help the kids pass the test; however, it hurts in other areas which require critical thinking and other skills. But then how can you know if the kids are learning anything without testing? How can you compare schools without testing? How do taxpayers find out if there money is being spent wisely?

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The problem with the whole accountability standards is it the way the scores are complied. It is causing unintended consequences that many people including the ones here don't know about. For example, when I was in school and a student was a discipline problem they were removed from the school. Many of these student drop out once they were 16, and I don't view that as a bad thing because they were not going to succeed, they were only going to inhibit others form succeeding. Now they are not removed from the class and they are encouraged not to drop out. The reason, schools can't afford zeros for those kids accountability scores. Now you have just created a disciplinary problem in schools.

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Just out of curiosity, are you including the schools now in the RSD?

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RSD schools in Baton Rouge are a complete joke. They are actually worse than when they were failing schools under EBRPSS. It has amazed me that no one seems to have a problem with the state coming in taking buildings from local government, causing over crowding in other schools, and in all cases not turning the schools around while using selective enrollment.