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re: EBR Superintendent opposes St. George School System
Posted on 4/29/26 at 7:45 am to Skenes
Posted on 4/29/26 at 7:45 am to Skenes
of course they would be against it..... would take the better portion of their students
also, sounds like the same arguments they tried to use to prevent the un-incorporated are from incorporating
also, sounds like the same arguments they tried to use to prevent the un-incorporated are from incorporating
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Posted on 4/29/26 at 7:47 am to tigeraddict
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of course they would be against it..... would take the better portion of their students
The better portion, a portion of the better students, or both?
Posted on 4/29/26 at 7:51 am to TooncesAndOmar
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That is anti-conservative to me and not pro “school choice.”
St. George having it's own school district is the most "school choice" there is. It's sort of the whole point
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I prefer to not have the government and state legislators get involved and take my job away from me. I prefer to not have the government and state legislators get involved and force kids out of their schools.
I bet you thought this way during covid too...
Posted on 4/29/26 at 7:54 am to Skenes
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Roughly 500 jobs are at risk if voters approve the St. George school district on May 16. Those employees will have to decide to stay with EBR and hope to be reassigned within the district or resign and apply to work in the St. George district instead
The horror!!!!
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“Whether you have children in school currently, whether you have grandchildren in school currently, whether you have to pay property taxes, all of these individuals will be affected if St. George is allowed to have their own scho
Sounds like EBR fraud, i means school system is worried St George is going to pay better and their tax funding source is going to dry up. How sad for them.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 7:56 am to BugAC
Sounds like the specific funding source that will dry up is people living in the district currently sending their kids to private school, meaning funding without having to provide services.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:05 am to TooncesAndOmar
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I prefer to not have the government and state legislators get involved and take my job away from me. I prefer to not have the government and state legislators get involved and force kids out of their schools.
But you did prefer the government to attempt to nullify a vote by the people to form their own city and school district.
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Yet St. George wants our tax money.
No, St. George wants St. George residents tax money to fund St. George schools. You seem to have no problem with the EBR failure taking St. George residents money for their failure, though.
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. Central and Zachary are still very different. Not sure anyone can argue that they are different sizes, located further away (not as much teacher/residence overlap, and have different demographics.
So you just don't want the good teachers going to St. George, is that it? I wonder why they would choose St. George over BR public school system? Puzzling indeed.
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Central and Zachary grew up and left the house as adults.
Are you saying that St. George can't be successful because they are too close to BR? What does that say about your sacred cow, BR?
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St. George and EBR are going through a divorce.
Can't go through a divorce if you were never married, Chief.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:07 am to Skenes
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“They still have not shown anything on paper that says we have the monies we need to run our school system,” Reams-Brown said
It's almost like they aren't concerned about your school system. Maybe that's YOUR responsibility, Ms. Superintendent? EBR schools have been cooked since the 80s. Time to pull the plug and go full bore charter schools. Or, break the parish up in to smaller ISDs so the better ones will survive and maybe get better and the awful ones will flame out and be replaced by a better model.
Simply throwing more money at the problem in EBR has never worked. Decades of evidence to the contrary.
So glad I got out of EBR when the getting was good.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:07 am to Chef Curry
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Im all for St. George getting what they want. But will the middle and upper class people currently sending their kids to private school suddenly switch to public? I doubt it. I know I wouldn’t until I saw some evidence that the public schools are truly viable.
This. It’s Woodlawn High School, abka Weedlawn. How are the kids who go to Weedlawn going to change and become good students? All cause they’re under a different school district? They’re suddenly going to become great students?
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:10 am to sta4ever
If the kids going to Weedlawn stay the same, no.
But I bet there are kids being shipped to Weedlawn now who wouldn’t be if the new district is made and there are kids who would currently be shipped to various schools now who would be shipped to Weedlawn under the new districts.
But I bet there are kids being shipped to Weedlawn now who wouldn’t be if the new district is made and there are kids who would currently be shipped to various schools now who would be shipped to Weedlawn under the new districts.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:11 am to Chef Curry
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But will the middle and upper class people currently sending their kids to private school suddenly switch to public? I doubt it.
Did that not happen in Central and Zachary?
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:12 am to chalmetteowl
Ask Redemptorist about that. Oh wait, they shut down because the northern end of the parish no longer needed a Catholic school due to the new systems.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:14 am to Mung
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By the time Baker got its own school district all the wypipo had already moved to Central, Zachary and Livingston.
I think Zachary has already fallen
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:15 am to SPEEDY
It is still above average but it is becoming Baker North.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:21 am to Chef Curry
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Im all for St. George getting what they want. But will the middle and upper class people currently sending their kids to private school suddenly switch to public? I doubt it. I know I wouldn’t until I saw some evidence that the public schools are truly viable.
This is my question. If I lived in St George, sent my kids to private school, and was happy with their school, I don’t think I would just send them to a new public school system.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:24 am to Epic Cajun
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If I lived in St George, sent my kids to private school, and was happy with their school, I don’t think I would just send them to a new public school system.
Then eventually they graduate, but then the next family coming up doesn’t choose private school when the public option is good enough
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:24 am to Skenes
A long time ago, we had a school system split here. For about 10 or 15 year, homeowners in the new district paid into two school systems, the new and the old. Kinda sucked, but it was worth it.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:30 am to teke184
I'm not sending my kid to a public school in St. George, and i currently live in St. George with school age kids. i don't know anyone that would do this right now. They barely even have any schools in the district as it is, so i don't know what school you'd be sending kids to. St. George is a city of almost 100,000 people and there's one public high school, Woodlawn. If even a quarter of the kids in the district decided to go to public school they wouldn't come close to being able to handle that currently.
However, if they formed new schools in certain areas, and only allowed the kids from that district to go to that school, then i would without a doubt be interested in that scenario.
Draw a line around Santa Maria, CCoL, all the neighborhoods off Highland until Pecue, Briarwood/Woodridge. So basically everyone inside Pecue, Airline, Highland (and the neighborhoods east off Highland).
I'd take my kid out of private school right now if there was a school that only included students from that specific area.
However, if they formed new schools in certain areas, and only allowed the kids from that district to go to that school, then i would without a doubt be interested in that scenario.
Draw a line around Santa Maria, CCoL, all the neighborhoods off Highland until Pecue, Briarwood/Woodridge. So basically everyone inside Pecue, Airline, Highland (and the neighborhoods east off Highland).
I'd take my kid out of private school right now if there was a school that only included students from that specific area.
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:32 am to WickedTiger
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She can’t be this stupid?
I was working tech support at a computer manufacturer. A lady from the Louisiana Department of Education called me, and was phonetically spelling a street name. She aid, "K, as in cat."
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:49 am to Skenes
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“They talk about the school system, they talk about teachers, but do you really understand what all goes into a school to make it run day to day? How many different people need to be there? You know, it’s not just a teacher showing up to teach,” Green said.
You can’t run a school without a bunch of worthless administrators who don’t do anything!!!
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:59 am to TooncesAndOmar
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Also, Central and Zachary are not great comparisons.
You can't be serious.
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