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

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These are all rebuilts. I guess reading comprehension is a problem for you. I specifically asked NEW SCHOOLS, not rebuilds.

So they rebuilt Woodlawn, built a BRAND NEW elementary and middle school in your area BEFORE rebuilding the schools you mentioned in BR proper and you still want to bitch that they didn't invest in your area.

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I'll admit. I missed the "not" when reading your comment at 6:00am in the morning.

I'm not bitching at all about the construction and renovations. I live in Baton Rouge (Magnolia Woods area) and plan on sending my kid to Mayfair since we're in the priority zone; and I'm extremely happy that Mayfair is next up on the renovation list.

But I think it's obvious that due to demand, EBRPSS has prioritized City of Baton Rouge campuses and left the rest of the parish on the back log hoping that charter schools and private schools would continue to fill that gap.

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Have you looked at attendance zone for Woodlawn lately. It's basically the same map as St George. If you want neighborhood schools then send your kids to the already existing neighborhood school.

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So what you’re telling me is St. George, Louisiana’s 5th largest city, only has one high school(and not a good one)and that sounds right to you?

HS? Woodlawn in the 70s(?).

Middle school? None.

Elementary? Probably Shenandoah Elementary.

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ou voted for the Thrive plan. That was also a renewal. So you don’t always vote against tax renewals.

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The Library tax renewal, which was a very small part of the Thrive proposal, was subservient to the parish wide benefits the all-or-none proposal would deliver.

Because Thrive failed due to ignorance and misinformation like you display, the library will now put its tax renewal proposition up for a vote next month as a stand alone vote.

I will vote NO on it and It will pass 2 to 1. Congratulations, Mr. Biden!

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Could someone shed light on the amendment for/against? I don’t see why the entire state has to vote on something in St. George/EBR PH. The way it sounds is that St. George wants special treatment, but not sure.

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The way the amendment process works in LA, setting up a new school system requires the amendment pass statewide and in the parish in question.


Previous breakaway school systems in EBR Parish such as Zachary and Central previously won such votes.


So, nothing “special” required for St George that wasn’t done for other school systems in a similar situation.

so is EBR just going to cut their enrollment in half to prove a point? Believe it or not, they need smart kids to attend those schools or theyll have to lower their standards.

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I pay $25,000 per child in private school tuition to live in St.G now

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I live in St George and I don’t pay any private school tuition. You are getting fleeced.

Seriously, the question you should be asking is whether or not you can trust the current SG leadership or the parish leadership. Or whether or not you political point of view would have a better chance of winning a vote for more taxed in EBR Parish or in SG.

If you trust the current system that has taken a once great school system to the bottom and which is dominated by a city that is stagnant and fighting to make ends meet then vote against SGISD.

The truth is riughly 20% of EBR resides in SG; yet all we have to show for it is 2 elem schools, 2 Middle schools and a high school. There are no public schools in SG south of I 12 and the mall and west of Airline. In short we have to send our children great distances to access the gifted or magnet schools or pay through the nose for private schools which also can be a great distance from home.

You can trust the people who help create the mess we have now or go with SG. At least in SG things are “smaller” and you can watch things better.

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But I do agree, STG has done an awful job at pushing this and dispelling rumors.

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Maybe because the established media and big money politicians are spreading them.

It’ was the same way with SG the city.
The status quo has been using our tax dollars and not providing the respective services. They want this to continue.

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Could someone shed light on the amendment for/against? I don’t see why the entire state has to vote on something in St. George/EBR PH. The way it sounds is that St. George wants special treatment, but not sure.

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Because the state constitution requires a constitutional amendment for each district that is created out of a parish district even for one like EBR that has already had 3 districts formed out of it and doesn’t cover the entire parish anymore.

The amendment will add the new district as basically a full taxing entity like it’s another parish school district but only for the land and public schools in its boundaries.

You would think by now an amendment to constitution would lower this burden especially once a parish school district gets divided out once already (or twice or thrice), but alas no the locals don’t get final say and have to rely on the rest of the state to vote once again on splitting off another district from the so called “parish” school district.

If Louisiana had any forward thinking ability they would have changed this requirement for the rest of east Baton Rouge school system alongside the Central schools amendment. That would have made it easier for the SE Baton Rouge school district to form back in 2012 or 2013.

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It does make sense because all school districts get funds from the state MFP which comes from all of our taxes across the state. St. George School District would add another slice to the pie.

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I could be wrong but I've always thought that the MFP allocates funds to school districts based on the number of students enrolled in their district (as of October 1 of the school year).

If that's the case then funding follows the number of students and not the school districts.

EBR's reduction in MFP funding will be St. George school district's gain.