re: Is it possible to improve EBR School

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It wasn't just a shift of kids to private schools. Before the deseg, people who had dreams of being teachers became public school teachers. The system hired the best. They had the best principals. They had a school board with a real agenda to make the district as good as it could be. Upper middle school families sent their kids to upper middle class schools. But we're now almost 2 working generations past that point. The best teachers move away or take a lower paying job to teach in private schools. Legacies of mother and daughter teachers in the same private schools. It's just too far gone. The last real swath of successful, white public school alums are grandparents now, many of whom later paid into a private school system for their own kids. These kids have married other private school grads and created a cultural shift that's just kind of unbreakable in my eyes. It's a weird thought but if St George becomes a city, the EBRSS would probably fare better being next to a successful school district in their own parish than the trend it's headed towards now.

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