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re: Does anyone know what happens to St. George students who want to stay in EBRSS schools?
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:23 am to doubleb
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:23 am to doubleb
quote:I have now read this three separate times and the only takeaway I get is feeling a bit peckish.
NBR claims food desserts. Large parts of SW, and South EBR live in a public school dessert.
I hope I get my just deserts.
This post was edited on 5/13/26 at 8:25 am
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Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:25 am to LSURussian
You gotsta move, baw.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:39 am to chryso
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You gotsta move, baw.
LSUrussian was being disingenuous in his OP. Anyone that’s been following the BR v St George situation knows that he hates the idea of St George in all aspects and would vote no on the amendment.
He framed his OP as a “on the fence” question to seem impartial but his stance has always been anti-St George. Don’t be fooled.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:49 am to cssamerican
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A separate district was never necessary, what was needed was for families to opt into the existing system in large numbers at one time and reclaim it, but no one seems willing to do so.
There was an attempt to fix things before the St George push. It ended up as an ugly fight at EBRPSB in which the entrenched powers refused to try and do anything to improve the system and told the opposition “Go make your own school system if you want influence.”
Posted on 5/13/26 at 8:50 am to dallastigers
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Baker’s problem was Judge Parker.
Baker’s problem was white flight, which began before I started 1st grade at Park Ridge in 1973, and continued after I graduated from BHS in 1985. Parker closing Scotlandville High in 1982 and sending half those kids to Baker only exacerbated the white flight. Parents moved to Central, Zachary and Livingston and to private schools. In 1985 BHS was the largest school in EBRP, now it’s barely a 2A school. None of my graduating class of 363 lives in Baker. There are no jobs, very few businesses, just nothing making anyone want to live there. Many of the kids get bused to charter schools in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 9:12 am to GEAUX4
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Actually, Zachary is still rated #1 in Louisiana
Actually it's not and the trend is not going in and upward direction for either Zachary or Central.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 11:35 am to teke184
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A separate district was never necessary, what was needed was for families to opt into the existing system in large numbers at one time and reclaim it, but no one seems willing to do so.
What these people don’t understand is the EBRSS is run by the EBR School Board. This school board members are voted in by voters who live in EBR Parish, but not in Centrsl, Zachary or Baker ISDs.
School board districts are carved out based on demographics and not the number of students going to public schools.
Every kid in SG could go to an EBRSS school, and the make up of the school board would stay the same. The system would have the same administrators and policies that had failed the parish.
The only way to get away from this is to do what SG is doing and to do what the others did. Breakaway.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 11:50 am to UptownJoeBrown
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To anyone that says St George will have to raise taxes to fund schools:
The St George area generates 60 million a year for schools. EBRPSS currently spends less than that on St George schools. St George will have one of the highest funding per student in the entire State.
This should come as no shock to anyone. The City of Baton Rouge and the EBRPSS were being subsidized by the unincorporated areas of the parish (now most of which constitute St. George). It amounted to political theft.
Posted on 5/13/26 at 10:26 pm to teke184
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There was an attempt to fix things before the St George push. It ended up as an ugly fight at EBRPSB in which the entrenched powers refused to try and do anything to improve the system and told the opposition “Go make your own school system if you want influence.”
Yep. So they tried to make their own school system and got told they couldn't unless they formed their own city. So CHALLENGE ACCEPTED and here we are
Posted on 5/13/26 at 11:17 pm to SG_Geaux
I’m not sure they will accept that their own bullshite is going to cause the downfall of EBRPSS and BR proper.
All they had to do was attempt to reform the school system, but they were too arrogant and too power hungry to consider it.
All they had to do was attempt to reform the school system, but they were too arrogant and too power hungry to consider it.
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