I went to a "pre-split" football playoff game a couple of years ago at Pan American Stadium. It was between a Catholic school and a local New Orleans area public school. The attendance disparity between the Catholic school vs. the local New Orleans public school was pretty much embarrassing on the part of the public school. The visiting Catholic school side was packed in the stands with more fans along the fence lines where permitted. On the home side there was the band, and I kid you not, less than 100 fans scattered throughout. I'm being very generous with the 100 or so on the home side.

I went to public school and now my kids go to Catholic schools and I hope and cannot wait for all of this to fly in the face of the public schools! What I'd love to see is for those that want to send their kids to public schools (there's nothing wrong with that!) continue to pay "their fair share" of school board taxes as normal but those that want to send their kids to private schools would no longer have to pay any public school taxes what so ever. Yeah I know it's pie in the sky but it would serve the publics right and would make more people open their eyes to the crap that is going on now with the public school systems!

Taxpayers are pretty much funding a pile of crap with the some of the public school systems as it stands now.

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Posted by chalmetteowl

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Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 6/10/16 at 1:50 pm to 31TIGERS

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I went to a "pre-split" football playoff game a couple of years ago at Pan American Stadium. It was between a Catholic school and a local New Orleans area public school. The attendance disparity between the Catholic school vs. the local New Orleans public school was pretty much embarrassing on the part of the public school. The visiting Catholic school side was packed in the stands with more fans along the fence lines where permitted. On the home side there was the band, and I kid you not, less than 100 fans scattered throughout. I'm being very generous with the 100 or so on the home side.

one thing i always notice... when we play public schools like from the city, or the West Bank, etc., the fans will sit in twos and threes and leave huge gaps between each other, scattered

when we play private schools, and I especially noticed this with Newman and Rummel, they'll sit in a blob, packed together

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Posted by ForkEmDemons

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Member since May 2014

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Posted on 6/10/16 at 4:04 pm to chalmetteowl

I've been to plenty of games at East Iberville and White Castle. When they host St. John, AC and ACH, the private schools usually outnumber the home fans.

White Castle will occasionally have a solid crowd but I've never seen more than 50-100 people on the home side at East. I have seen them only have 10-15 on their home side before.

Going to hurt smaller schools like those if the private schools break away.

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