re: Budget comparisons between St George & other Louisiana cities

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My point is--if we have to build schools, why is that?

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Because....

1) All of the magnet school students who live in SG who now attend a magnet school elsewhere in the EBR system will have to relocate to a SG school. They won't be eligible to attend the EBR magnet schools.

2) Many students who live in the SG area will no longer be allowed to attend schools in EBR which are closer to them now than the SG schools are. They will have to travel further to get to school than they do now. (Three quick examples are the high school students who live north of Fla Blvd and attend Belaire High School, some who attend Tara but live outside the BR city limits and the students in the Gardere area who attend Magnolia Woods, Mayfair Elementary and Highland Elementary.)

3) There is an assumption that a significant number of students who now attend private schools will migrate to the SG schools. I don't know if that assumption is correct but that has been the argument of many on this board who claim they will move their kids out of private schools to the SG schools. I personally doubt that will happen for many students because they won't want to leave their friends who will stay in their private school.