re: Grace King is closing

Posted on 4/10/23 at 10:36 am to yaboidarrell

Posted by Screaming Viking

Member since Jul 2013

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Posted on 4/10/23 at 10:36 am to yaboidarrell

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Haynes is the only public one and that's because it's a magnet school.

there is a difference between Magnet schools and Advanced Studies Academies. Haynes is the latter.

this is being dine for a number of reasons:
-money. i heard $15M as a price tag for the land, but I have not spoken to anyone to verify this just yet.
-student enrollment has taken a nosedive. if you do not have the butts in the seats, then it does not justify keeping a facility open.
-teachers and substitute teachers. cannot keep positions filled.

no doubt that it will be a rough beginning of the year when GK kids show up to Bonnabel. that cop gonna be busy.

ETA was informed today the the property will be auctioned off. Proceeds will help offset the two new schools being designed right now. One in Bunche Village and one in a similar neighborhood on the west bank.

This post was edited on 4/10/23 at 6:45 pm

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Posted by Highstepper

Member since Jul 2009

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Posted on 4/10/23 at 10:06 pm to Hangover Haven

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East Jefferson High School had been using "A.M. & P.M. platoon shifts" where the first classes went to school from 6 a.m. until noon, and the second shift went from 12:30 to 6:30. In 1973 they started building a new all male school named Alfred T. Bonnabel High. Even though it would not be completed until 2 years later, they decided to call the morning shift “Bonnabel” and the afternoon shift “East Jefferson”. The following year the two shifts flip-flopped. The third year the student that had been using the name “Bonnabel” moved into their new building just north of I-10 between David Dr. and Williams Blvd.

I am old enough to have had the pleasure of the elite educational experience of being "platooned" during that time in a school designed for 1200 students (EJ) servicing well north of of 4000 idiot teenage boys. (EJ '77). It was a clusterfrick without peer. Fights between EJ and the yet to be completed Bonnabel daily, for no reason other that the high concentration of testoterone and lack of adult supervision. Pinball Appreciation and Elements of Gang Fighting seemed to be the most popular classes. Several of my classmates referred to it as "Angola Prep". JP public schools where a horror show then and a shite show now. "Alfred Bonnabel Magnet". Make me laugh.

Despite my wonderful secondary education, I've managed a moderate measure of post-secondary school success- a Master's, two doctorates, a successful career. Here's a clue how nostalgic I feel about JP public schools- exactly zero of my 6 kids ever set foot in a JP public school. A couple graduated from Mandeville High.
My younger siblings went to Grace King- along with a former governor's wife and a few other notables- and it was a decent school then, without the reprobates breaking the place up- but Jeff Parish has never been able to get their act together educationally, even with having a pretty decent tax base to work from. Having Orleans Parish as a "hey look- it could be worse" comparison is not exculpatory. When people ask me the quintessential New Orleans question: if I "went to Jesuit" or "where'd you go to school", I reply: I didn't go to High School- I went to East Jefferson".

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