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McKinley High temporarily relocating to Kenilworth
Posted on 6/30/25 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 6/30/25 at 3:52 pm
RIP
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McKinley High School students and staff will have a new home for two years while the school undergoes renovation.
Flyers on doors at the school have notified many of the upcoming move, and it is something Principal Robert Webb says has been a long time coming.
"McKinley has been here since 1961 ... McKinley is the oldest Black high school in the state of Louisiana and they have been around since 1907. This has not been the facility since then, but we have been here long enough that we need a new facility for our students," Webb said.
Webb says the new facility would benefit the staff and students.
"All kids should have an opportunity to go to school that's uplifting, that's motivating to them, and that's just a great place for them to come to school," he said.
The renovation will include tearing down some parts of the school while building new ones and adding on to others.
McKinley students and staff will move to the former Kenilworth Middle School campus, which currently houses the Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts. While they are moving out, McKinley will be moving in.
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Posted on 6/30/25 at 3:58 pm to Big Scrub TX
Oh boy.
Also, what a stupid fricking quote. He should be fired for saying this:
Also, what a stupid fricking quote. He should be fired for saying this:
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McKinley is the oldest Black high school in the state of Louisiana
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:11 pm to Big Scrub TX
Everything is about race. Shocker.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:15 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Also, what a stupid fricking quote. He should be fired for saying this:
He absolutely should be fired for saying that. Not sure how anyone could downvote your statement, but I'm sure they'll speak up.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:16 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
What about this isn't true?
It is located in The Bottom.
It is located in The Bottom.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:25 pm to Big Scrub TX
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McKinley is the oldest Black high school in the state of Louisiana and they have been around since 1907
considering it is NOT an all Black school, and hasnt been so since before desecration, why make this statement
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:29 pm to Big Scrub TX
Poor Kenilworth
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:30 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Also, what a stupid fricking quote. He should be fired for saying this:
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McKinley is the oldest Black high school in the state of Louisiana
I thought everyone knew that it was the black school before segregation and bussing. I hasn't always been called McKinley.
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In 1907, H.K. Strickland opened the first black high school in Louisiana, called the East Baton Rouge Negro School. In 1914, the school moved into a new building and became known as Baton Rouge Colored High School. This became McKinley Senior High School, named for President William H. McKinley, in 1926 with the erection of a new building located at present-day Thomas H. Delpit Drive. This building served the school until 1962, when the present McKinley High School doors opened at 800 East McKinley Street. The original building now serves as the school?ÇÖs Alumni Center and in 1981 was entered into the National Historic Register.
Old BR high school yearbooks
https://batonrougedigitalarchive.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16340coll7/search
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:34 pm to Big Scrub TX
Where will the performing arts go?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:35 pm to tigeraddict
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tigeraddict
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considering it is NOT an all Black school, and hasnt been so since before desecration, why make this statement
I think the big word you're looking for is desegregation
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What is the meaning of the word desecration?
the action of damaging or showing no respect towards something holy or very much respected: desecration of People were horrified at the desecration of the cemetery. Desecration of sacred sites and objects was widespread.
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What does Desegrated mean?
adjective. rid of segregation; having had segregation ended. synonyms: nonsegregated, unsegregated. integrated. not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 6/30/25 at 4:40 pm to Shexter
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Also, what a stupid fricking quote. He should be fired for saying this:
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McKinley is the oldest Black high school in the state of Louisiana
I thought everyone knew that it was the black school before segregation and bussing. I hasn't always been called McKinley.
It's an interesting historic factoid. I'm not sure why it had to be included in the discussion involving this temoporary move.
Those football picture captions are fantastic, though!
Posted on 6/30/25 at 5:12 pm to Y.A. Tittle
It's not a black school. It's a Louisiana public school. White kids do go there. A public school funded by tax dollars should not be categorized as a "black school"
Posted on 6/30/25 at 5:41 pm to Shexter
Is that Eddie Murphy bottom right?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:00 pm to Big Scrub TX
So if they want a specifically black folks school then just called it the East Baton Rouge Colored School.
Just straight make it segregated. I’m perfectly fine with that.
Just straight make it segregated. I’m perfectly fine with that.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 6:02 pm to sqerty
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Where will the performing arts go?
They are opening a brand new campus on Acadian Throughway past TJ Ribs.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 7:14 pm to NoMercy
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They are opening a brand new campus on Acadian Throughway past TJ Ribs
That's BRCVPA. It is k-5.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 7:27 pm to Big Scrub TX
Sucks for Kenilworth.
Drum line for days….
Drum line for days….
Posted on 6/30/25 at 7:51 pm to Shexter
Is it still a black only school?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 7:55 pm to Big Scrub TX
What is a
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Black high school
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:01 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Kenilworth Middle School campus, which currently houses the Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts.
Seems small.
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