re: Does anyone know what happens to St. George students who want to stay in EBRSS schools?

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Woodlawn is one of the magnet schools

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Well there’s your answer. Weedlawn is already a Magnet. OP can send his kid there, instead of BRMHS. Problem solved.

Not sure why some guy in Dallas is so invested in EBR Parish schools, but fight on, I guess.

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“You heard that right. Better schools, local control, lower taxes,” Yates told reporters Monday.

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And remind me; how do you know when a politician is lying?

More than likely they will come to a financial agreement that allows the students to stay in EBRSS until such time an equal school is established in St. George. I'll be honest, I don't know why all of the districts in EBR don't have a consolidated school for the highest achievers, if not the tri-parish or whole metro area.

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You’d think what SG is attempting to do is unheard of, impossible, dangerous. I’m thinking it’s part of the American way.

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Its definitely not unheard of, but it will be impossible for them to achieve what they want to achieve UNLESS the following happens:

1) Unilaterally, all of the students living in that area remove their kids from Private Schools
2) Kids living in the area leave their current magnet school programs

The most likely scenario is these two factions take a wait and see approach and Woodlwan; remains Woodlawn

Without the kids who are currently in the private and thriving in the magnet schools this will be the equivalent of asking Nick Saban to go to ULM and win a National Championship year with their current roster!

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1) Unilaterally, all of the students living in that area remove their kids from Private Schools 2) Kids living in the area leave their current magnet school programs

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I disagree.

On day one SGISD likely would be overwhelmed. I think a slower rollout is best, and in the long run best.

SG will have to prove itself to draw all the private and magnet students.

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We don't have to imagine; we're currently living it on a daily basis. However, I would make this sacrifice everyday of the week and twice on Sunday even if I lived in an area with great public schools.

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If all things are equal why would you choose private over public schools?

I understand there are religious reasons, loyalty reasons, but I don’t understand why anyone would pay for the exact thing they could get for “free”.

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Unilaterally, all of the students living in that area remove their kids from Private Schools
Kids living in the area leave their current magnet school programs

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I disagree. It would be better if this happens gradually over several years. Unless kids absolutely hate their current high schools they are going to want to finish there. Likely the same for middle school but maybe lower amount wanting to finish at same school than HS. If it’s gradual over a few years they will have more time to adapt and grow along side increasing students. They should also plan on spending more per student initially as they gain trust and have slower growth initially.

According to some including the mayor they will have more than enough money and may be able to lower rates. I think lower rate should wait until they invest in the locations they will have and look into planning and building some smaller neighborhood elementary schools down the road. Decide if abandoned EBRSS property they will get should be sold to help fund purchases at better locations or fixed up.

Their main growth should be in elementary first and have middle and high schools in next waves as those kids grow up, but the tax revenue should also help adapt middle and high schools if any current students living in StG come back in greater numbers quicker than expected.

Cutting rates makes a good sound bite, but being cash rich at the start is more important.

They should publish things on curriculum and should focus on being different than existing public schools like teaching kids to have pride in country, be respectful, instilling discipline, teaching kids how to figure things out & think for themselves instead forcing politics down their throats, and moving away from identity politics and victimhood. They should also focus on improving security and max out whatever the state allows as far as removing/isolating or even kicking out the problem students disrupting the others from learning.

They should also bring back

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Its funny that the people living within the city limits of Baton Rouge didn't have this same shitty "us vs them" attitude in the late 80's when their tax dollars was getting pumped into what was known as BFE.

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Maybe back in 1950s and 60s, but 1970 had 120,000 people living out of city of BR in the parish; 1980 had 140,000 living outside of BR; 1990 had 160,000; and 2000 had 182,000.

Even 1960 had 78,000 people outside of the city limits of BR, but that population doubled by 1990 and was more than paying their share of various parish taxes (and some of the BR sales tax as well) which is why in last half of the 90s malls opened up off bluebonnet and theaters opened up outside of the city limits at the time. The parish should have been rolling in tax revenue, but it wouldn’t surprise me if more of revenue from unincorporated parish was already being spent inside BR than out especially as BR’s population dropped a little in 1990. Its growth by the 2000 census (still less than parish growth) was probably helped by being close to these developing unincorporated areas.

Why did the people inside BR gain the shitty us versus them attitude at beginning of the 21st century and beyond? Wait never mind thats when blacks took over the majority of the population in the city of BR.

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If it wasn't for the BR tax dollars Jones Creek would be a two lane hwy and your only way to get in and out would be Tiger Bend or Harrell's Ferry.

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The growth of that area and connected areas using it funded that construction. It was long overdue with the growth there and in other unincorporated areas along with the increasing sales tax revenue, but it probably delayed due to parish sales tax revenue going to BR.

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They are given the grade "bands" explanation (K-5, 6-8 and 9-12) I described earlier in this thread. After grades 5 & 8 their kids will not have a guaranteed place in the G-T and/or magnet schools in EBRSS schools.

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It seems to me that you got the answer.

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Maybe back in 1950s and 60s, but 1970 had 120,000 people living out of city of BR in the parish; 1980 had 140,000 living outside of BR; 1990 had 160,000; and 2000 had 182,000.

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Still holds true today. According to census data 70817 only accounts for 7% of total parish population. See my other post for more details.