re: Baton Rouge Magnet High leads the state in national merit semi finalists

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Do you not think episcopal has an eye on the family background of the students they pick? Do you not think charging as much as they do in admission helps them start with a study body more apt for learning and succeeding?

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I will agree it's helps. Most of the parents are EHS are doctors, lawyers, engineers, CPAs, etc. Smart parents usually have smart kids. So their starting base is higher. But at the end of the day it is still 90 kids competing against 400.

What Episcopal seems to do a good job of is out performing similar schools.

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Episcopal and pay the money (tuition and prop taxes) versus send their kid to BRMH for free (except prop taxes) giving them a better chance to be a national merit semi finalist.

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I had a kid who went to BRMHS for her Freshman year. Academically it is a WONDERFUL school. She did great too but it wasn't a good fit for her, she wanted to dance and all BRMHS had was ballet. There was no football games to go to. And it was ULTRA liberal, like to the point that she couldn't ever state her opinion on something unless it alligned with the liberals. They did walk outs for some person that got shot by cops. She switched to St. Michael her soph year on a full ride scholarship, wound up graduating with 21 hours to LSU. So all and all I think it was the right decision.

BRMHS sounds an awful lot like the “honors college” at many schools.

High concentration of liberal arts majors who are somewhere between Mao and Stalin politically and would end up getting their head shoved down a toilet at most other schools.

Id really like to see a ten year average for this. There can be a lot of variance year by year. Pretty sure northshore high had like 10 the year I graduated

I have friends who sent their children to Episcopal that were aghast that my kids went to BRMHS. Soooooo lowbrow.

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But at least they had a football team. Any kid who goes to a HS with no football team is going to be odd

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I hope your wheels are flat

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Do you not think episcopal has an eye on the family background of the students they pick?

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even the people they give a hefty amount of financial aid to are from decent families

Although I’ve heard that episcopal is not as conservative as people think it is

I think 6 is slightly below average. A really good year will get 10-11, 7-8 is typical.

Looks like Newman had a down year with only 7.

Episcopal has 100 kids per class, Baton Rouge High has 400, Catholic is tougher to guess because they have 8th graders, but I suspect that is a limited number. I would guess they have about 250 kids per class.

As for the gay mafia line, I’m not sure they had a ton of clout tbh. At the high school level, they had 4-5 teachers, so maybe 10 percent. They were also generally the ones with the most prestigious degrees, as I think the hiring climate was much more difficult 20-25 years ago for that demographic than it is now.

I’m not surprised at all about the stepdaughter of the Dean of students. This was WAY before being trans was accepted (and even considered hip in some circles, mostly in coastal cities).

But it’s a little misleading about the Dean of Students as he was about as far as you can get from being a super-alt, leftist. He was a pretty southern guy who mostly liked golf and wanted to talk about and play the sport

Fwiw I thought he was a very good guy. Also never had a single negative experience with the gay teachers, who were all professional and very qualified.

Never heard a thing about the headmaster’s wife though. This is from the 90s? Or newer?

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Jesuit has been slacking big time

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The next Charlie McGannon isn't walking through that door, apparently. Or stumbling through either.