re: Anyone else watching the frontline story "Separate and Unequal"?

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I grew up in Central and graduated from there in 06. My question is why do I not remember there being such a backlash from BR about us wanting to incorporate?

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Central has always been considered an unofficial town of sorts and its a community that has been fairly separate from the rest of the parish, due to natural boundaries and vacant land. When you asked somebody out there where they were from, they said "Central".

I've live in the Baton Rouge area all my life and have never heard anyone say they were from St. George. The area is not its own community.

Also, most people were sympathetic to the plight of Central. EBR was busing students in from Capitol, Glen Oaks, and Scotlandville and these kids were terrible. Getting a new school district fixed this problem. This isn't really the problem with south baton rouge. The crappy students in St. George actually live there.

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Now Central is in the top 5 I believe in districts in the state.

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Right. I already explained that they stopped busing students in from North Baton Rouge. Those are some crappy students. Central was a very good high school in the 80's and early 90's when they were 80%+ white. Central isn't doing anything differently as far as curriculum and teachers unions. They just have better parents and better students.

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Why would people in St. George not want this?

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Everyone wants this. It takes more than platitudes to make it happen. Short of selective enrollment, your demographics need to change. I already explained how this was the case with Central.

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During my 4 yrs at Central high I would say our demographics was 60/40 due to the m&m's ( minority to majority transfers) meaning that if you life's in EBR parish and were a minority the school system would bus you to a majority white school if your parents chose.

Now Central is closer to 90/10...

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