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6,250 employees and 42,850 students in the system. That averages out to 7 employees per student.

You'd like to think they have enough people to determine if a kid has enough credits to graduate. But that's me.

How are bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc supposed to know a given child's grades? There may even be a rule or law against the school system divulging that information to such employees (privacy laws, laws about minors, etc). This puts your math waaaaaaay off.

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Seriously, no way can Supt. Taylor know everything in his system, but by now he should know if a student graduated who shouldn't have since the auditors told him who they were.

I'll agree with that considering the qualifiers.

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Posted by doubleb

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Posted on 3/21/14 at 2:06 pm to Bard

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How are bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc supposed to know a given child's grades? There may even be a rule or law against the school system divulging that information to such employees (privacy laws, laws about minors, etc). This puts your math waaaaaaay off.

I don't disagree and that's why I used the word seriously to preface my second paragraph. But another point of information, the School System subs out the janitorial and maintenance work in EBR. A private company does all that now.

But I do think we have enough people in administration and at the schools to insure kids who graduate really did the work.

And again like I said, I'm critical of Taylor for his responses to date more so than I am for the fact the administration seems to have been corrupted.

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Posted by LSURussian

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Posted on 3/21/14 at 2:10 pm to Bard

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Seriously, no way can Supt. Taylor know everything in his system, but by now he should know if a student graduated who shouldn't have since the auditors told him who they were.

I'll agree with that considering the qualifiers.

Taylor said several days ago the student should not have graduated. He said "errors and mistakes" were made.

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"It is not a failure of the system in terms of policies and procedures, errors and mistakes were made," Taylor said. Taylor says the audit was conducted because in May 2013, a student at Glen Oaks was approved for graduation, but the student's transcript shows they didn't have enough credits.

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