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UHigh - University Lab School possible financial problems
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:48 pm
Interim Administrator Rob Lyles has been on an employee termination spree since early this year. It makes no sense with the seemingly random targets. They usually hit on Thursday and Friday lately with a few each day. It looks like an effort to not raise a flag with media and labor boards. The guess is that the school is in financial ruin and they will repopulate the staff with cheap labor. So much for all of the praise given at the 2024 graduation for the stellar performance of that class. Someone needs to dig way deeper into the “direction” of the school. Looks like a death spiral where no one is safe. What are your thoughts?
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Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:52 pm to CrusherOfDreams
They got any bullpen arms?
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:53 pm to CrusherOfDreams
Punishment for Dylan Moses
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:54 pm to CrusherOfDreams
Family member is personally affected by this and is devastated. Your guess about replacing with cheap is the same exact thing I’m hearing. Bad situation all around.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:55 pm to CrusherOfDreams
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Someone needs to dig way deeper into the “direction” of the school
I’m on it.
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the school is in financial ruin and they will repopulate the staff with cheap labor
This would never happen at the prestigious high schools like Episcopal and Catholic.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:56 pm to 225Tyga
The band director was just released
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:58 pm to CrusherOfDreams
I don't know much about Uhigh. Isnt it a public magnet school? If so, its books should be open. Isn't it also a lab school? If so, it should have student teachers, that supplement faculty and make staffing less expensive. Lastly, how much less can teachers possibly be paid?
Posted on 4/29/25 at 5:59 pm to CrusherOfDreams
Is the tuition there really less than $6,000 a year? What type of school is this?
This post was edited on 4/29/25 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 4/29/25 at 6:22 pm to CrusherOfDreams
UHigh is more interested in scholarship athletes than the kids who made the school great. Multiple awesome families with 2-4 kids at the school have left for Dunham, Parkview, Catholic…
All so buy championships that no one respects. No one gives a shite about your transfers who are just there for sports.
UHigh lost itself. Whoever this guy is firing people is just trying to salvage what is left. UHigh is also a nuisance to the LSU campus. School should be half its current size.
All so buy championships that no one respects. No one gives a shite about your transfers who are just there for sports.
UHigh lost itself. Whoever this guy is firing people is just trying to salvage what is left. UHigh is also a nuisance to the LSU campus. School should be half its current size.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 6:41 pm to CrusherOfDreams
They can’t get Gordon
Posted on 4/29/25 at 6:52 pm to CrusherOfDreams
Self inflicted wound starting 10 years ago. Took my kids out and never looked back.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 6:54 pm to CrusherOfDreams
Would probably get a better discussion if this was moved to the OT
Posted on 4/29/25 at 7:01 pm to CrusherOfDreams
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It makes no sense with the seemingly random targets….
It looks like an effort to not raise a flag with media and labor boards. The guess is that the school is in financial ruin…
Someone needs to dig way deeper into the “direction” of the school. Looks like a death spiral where no one is safe…..?
Maybe they seem “random” because you were just fired?
Red flags for media and labor board? You do realize LSU audits U High and LSU gets audited by the state?
“Direction of the school”? What “direction” has been set since they fired Kevin George (director for the last 3-4 years) 3 months ago? Clearly the “direction” under Kevin George was not in alignment with the staff, parents, or Alumni - read the results of the survey sent out late last year.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 7:03 pm to CrusherOfDreams
Are they laying off instructional staff?
If they are laying off teachers mid year things must be really bad, like can’t make the next payroll bad.
I always assumed their finances were handled by LSU
If not instructional staff and they are laying off several each week, how overstaffed is the school???
If they are laying off teachers mid year things must be really bad, like can’t make the next payroll bad.
I always assumed their finances were handled by LSU
If not instructional staff and they are laying off several each week, how overstaffed is the school???
This post was edited on 4/29/25 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 4/29/25 at 7:03 pm to bulletprooftiger
its not public and its not magnet. it is just a private school wannabe
Posted on 4/29/25 at 7:23 pm to CrusherOfDreams
The band director sucked and deserved to be let go. I'm puzzled by one of the teachers I heard was being let go, but I've not heard of any financial problems as the reasoning. The school fell off quickly under the previous regime but is making strides to get things back the way they should be.
This post was edited on 4/29/25 at 7:28 pm
Posted on 4/29/25 at 7:25 pm to Gdellinger
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not public and its not magnet. it is just a private school wannabe
ULS is public. It operates under a special district designation (same as Southern Lab), but it is public. They receive MFP and are required to administer LEAP testing.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 7:28 pm to CrusherOfDreams
My kids never went there but the school is good for the city. Lots of good families both white and black and more affordable than some of the others.. They need to get their shite together as I’ve known way to many families leaving and or talking about it for to be nothing..
Posted on 4/29/25 at 7:43 pm to CrusherOfDreams
I am a graduate of LSU who happened to student teach at U. High in the seventies; it was a great school. I do not understand how the school could be in financial trouble, because it is funded by the state and by East Baton Parish Public Schools. If this is true, then there should be a major investigation of the school.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 8:23 pm to LSUalum2000
How did the director suck? Seemed to be well
Liked and the band was good.
Liked and the band was good.
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