re: Biggest What-Ifs in Baton Rouge history...

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Biggest What-Ifs

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God was one of us.

What if Katrina didn't happen...........no more answers needed

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Or did the Judge's ruling cause the bussing of black kids to predominantly white schools outside their district to force the issue?

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This. It killed neighborhood schools and the concept of them

Kids spent hours on busses being bussed across the metro area. It killed parent involvement, extra curriculars etc

It also hampered school maintenance and new schools being built during that period . EBRPS went to shite over that period. A big reason why Zachary, Central and Baker got the frick out

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What if whitey had accepted integration and stayed in EBRP public schools?

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It was forced bussing that caused people to flee.

You’re glossing over the intense debate about how to go about desegregation.

The law required that the practice of keeping the races separate (“separate but equal”) was to be abolished. That was done.

The schools remained largely segregated by choice, not be force. A large cause of this is the uniquely neighborhood structure of Baton Rouge.

The city is not on a grid, so shifting school boundaries wasn’t easy. It caused hardships. Nevertheless, some neighborhoods began to desegregate and the schools therefore also became desegregated.

The disparity in outcomes between predominantly black and white schools was attributed to the fact that they were segregated, though that link couldn’t be shown. By magic, it was assumed that blacks being around whites would bring black grades and outcomes up, somehow.

Based on that assumption, failure to force integration was seen as a moral evil, even though that force was never contemplated by the original federal law or court rulings.

So Parker after much rancor by blacks during the consent degree, handed the control of the plan to the NAACP group in Baton Rouge. With an axe the grind and a false assumption, black pride schools like Capitol wasn’t touched, but other successful schools were turned upside down.

Valley Park was possibly the epicenter of extreme bussing and racial animus, and cratering outcomes.

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A federal judge’s sworn duty is to, you know, apply and enforce federal law.

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Federal Judges have access to the same US Constitution, the same set of facts, and the same case law…yet we still end up with 5-4 Supreme Court decisions.

Federal Judges rule based on how they think the law should be interpreted.

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Parker’s ruling forced the bussing of whites to black neighborhood schools and blacks to white neighborhood schools.

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For what it’s worth, if this hadn’t happened, I almost definitely would not have met my wife.

Not saying it should have happened but there’s a bright side to everything.

Why would I want my kids bussed across town or have kids with no ties to my community bussed in? They should have left the schools alone, they were once good schools. I guess they got what they wanted.

- if explorers never made it north of Gonzales on MS river….and never saw a “Red Stick”

- if Betsy or Katrina had totally inundated New Orleans, and the coast erosion had sped up 100 years

- if Huey P Long had never been assassinated, made it to POTUS, as some thought may happen vs Roosevelt (Baton Rouge gets way more $$$ and industry)

- if the one Loop, was finished in 1980’s and 2nd Loop was done by the time Katrina hits New Orleans

- if busing and Louisiana education never went into the toilet

What if Buc-ee's would’ve actually built here when they were supposed to