Advocate shilling for anti-StG forces - front page story about Sandy Springs

After 14 years ehh....

Maybe you can get a school within 28 years

I live in Sandy Springs and if your St. George ended up the same way as we did you’d be just fine.

If The Advocate is against St. George, that is reason enough to be for it, absent any other input.

Having been involved in a similar effort years ago in another state, I don’t see what the big deal is with the article. Contracting services to begin with is the financially responsible approach. You convert these services to in-house as it makes sense for the municipality. Bringing on full time public employees and all the associated costs while the city is still wet behind the ears could completely tie the hands of those tasked with running the city efficiently. The key is hiring a highly capable City Manager (or whatever you want to name it) and providing some safeguards from the daily political bullshite.

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If The Advocate is against St. George, that is reason enough to be for it, absent any other input.

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This is a sad commentary - I loved the Advocate when I was at LSU in the late 50's. I loved it even more when I went to other parts of the country after graduation and saw the 'big papers' which didn't cover their own area on the sports pages as well as the Advocate did back in BR.

When I finally settled in the Houston area for 35 years, I loved the Houston Chronicle - it was the conservative alternative to the commie leaning Houston Post.

As a teenager growing up in the woods of Vernon Parish I was treated to the Shreveport Times and the Beaumont Enterprise - where I ventured from the comics to the editorial pages to read the "intellectual" take on current events - Loved them all.

NOW - from the samples I have seen from all these once-great journals they are nothing but air-horns blown by leftwing scum.

Is there a newspaper in America that covers the news fairly??

Understood. I see what you’re saying and concur. Headline is inaccurate and ridiculously subjective “journalism.”

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Still waiting after far more years for any La. city/town to have a half decent decent school.

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That will never happen because there is too much state and federal control due to money from those levels coming in. This is why private schools perform far better on average.

Not all communities are equal, local control of schools exposes that. State and federal control seeks to make them equal but instead of pulling up the failing students (or making curriculum for them like we used to) they instead lower the bar on quality for the sake of balance.

Until this mindset changes (whether it's by raising the bar or allowing communities to set their own standards through local control, we will continue with nothing but the same from our public schools.

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I live in Sandy Springs and if your St. George ended up the same way as we did you’d be just fine.

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If it’s anything like it was when I left GA in 2013, Sandy Springs ain’t hurting. If that’s the best “failure” story The Advocate found, everybody should be thoroughly convinced to vote for St. George.

And...in today's Advocate, top of the fold?

"In St. George, Emotions Run High"

Story of two families - one for, one against.

One for (family with two small kids) - education

One against - older empty next couple - proposed St. George is "exclusionary" (only 12% black), plus uncertainty about the city's finances.

Now...the interesting part is on 6A where the younger family says THEY WILL MOVE TO ASCENSION if it doesn't pass for better schools while the older couple will just move into BR proper.

In other words, St. George is EBR Parish's only hope to stem outmigration.

This is all on the front page

Will St. George have a school system?