re: Schools and teachers are a Joke

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Highly dependent on location, but in St Tammany you are correct.

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Agreed. OP said he was northshore.

And we've even gotten to the point in places like Orleans and Jefferson, where if your child is smart enough to get into a magnet / high learning school (like Frankin or Lusher in Orleans, or Haynes/Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson) where that makes more sense than private/catholic school (based on education alone)

Now, if your child isn't smart enough to get into one of those type of schools in Orleans and Jefferson, and they would thus be put into one of the neighborhood schools, AND you can easily afford the tuition, it's probably better to do catholic school. But as even the neighborhood schools slowly get better, and the catholic schools don't really improve and just get more expensive, we may be at a point in 10 years where that starts to turn in JP and Orleans as well.