re: If you were considering moving back to Louisiana...where?

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School rankings are largely a byproduct of the students that attend. If a child has an aptitude for something its not going to matter where they go

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Get out of here with that perfectly logical statement

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If a child has an aptitude for something its not going to matter where they go

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Yeah that's a bunch of crap right there. If I wouldn't have been able to attend a magnet public HS I would have had to go to Glen Oaks or Istrouma High in BR, cause no way could my parents afford private nor move. Instead of being in classrooms full of other students like me...that actually wanted to learn...I would have been stuck in classrooms where teachers are too busy trying to control their students behavior than actually be able to teach.

I mean yeah...you have enough drive you can learn in any situation. But obviously the quality of the education is going to be better in the school with like minded students that all want to learn.

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mean yeah...you have enough drive you can learn in any situation. But obviously the quality of the education is going to be better in the school with like minded students that all want to learn.

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Do you read what you type? You contradict yourself in back to back sentences.

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You contradict yourself in back to back sentences.

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No I didn't.


I could have still gotten enough of an education to graduate if I went to the Istrouma or Glen Oaks. However...it would paled in comparison to the amount AND quality of education I got by going to a magnet school. Having access to teachers that can actually teach me and answer my questions...instead of spending half their time disciplining kids that don't give a shite about school is key. Teachers that actually challenged how you thought and didn't just give you the easiest homework/assignments so that you could pass.


Name one public HS in Baton Rouge (besides Baton Rouge High...which is the only true magnet left and gonna be much more difficult for kids to get into now) that is able to provide a quality environment for kids to actually learn. That isn't plaqued by students with severe behavioral issues, drugs, and violence.

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Where all in La. have you been? Lake Charles? Monroe? Alexandria? Frankly I find it interesting that nobody (unless I missed it) has mentioned any of those places. Just curious where your points of reference are.

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There is literally no city in Louisiana that I haven't been to. Zwolle? Marion? Been there worked the town. I use to travel the world and the country, now I focus more on the state.

Baton Rouge is my home.

mandeville and areas around mandeville.

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"everything is better in Texas culture". for example you thinking that those are specific to texas.


Just look at the two "mottos" of the states.
Texas- everything is bigger in texas
LA- sportmans paradise, let the good times roll

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I see what you're saying but there is a lot of trash, horrible infrastructure as mentioned in LA. As a friend told me one time... 'Texans seem to have a lot of pride from being in Texas." I would say there are plenty of people from LA who have just as much pride and maybe it doesn't come across as arrogance, etc. Granted, I don't know what everyone thinks but it seems I see a lot more people bash Louisiana than bash Texas - and maybe that's where some pride comes from.

To each his own

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Lake Charles? Monroe? Alexandria? Frankly I find it interesting that nobody (unless I missed it) has mentioned any of those places.

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Because no one chooses to move to those places voluntarily

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So lots of kids in Louisiana have poor aptitude, got it.

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It's more that there are not large concentrations of "good students" in many areas. LA's "larger" cities happen to be dominated by poorer minorities. The white flight to private school has left very little in the way of motivated student in the public schools. Look at Mandeville for instance. If the rest of the state had that concentration on middle class to upper middle class students, there would be high functioning public schools all across the state. But even in the rural areas, your numbers of middle class to upper middle class families are outnumbered by the poorer class who don't value education as much. If momma and daddy don't care about school, neither will the kid.

I'm not saying some school systems aren't bad. But, I blame that on the students as well. You aren't going to get good teachers wanting to teach there, and it will fall into a cycle. And even if you took great teachers and put them in a bad performing district, the students ultimately dictate the outcome and it will still fail.

I'd love to take an entire class of kids from poor performing areas and bus them into the highest performing schools. A 13 year experiment. From Kindergarten to 12th grade. They get the same teachers and facilities. Teachers get paid the same. Only thing is they do not mix in with kids from that area. It would be as if the school system suddenly traded places, but the student body remained the same. I bet you wouldn't see a 1% increase in performance.

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Madisonville
North of Covington