re: Instead of complaining about Baton Rouge...

How are terrible urban public schools unrelated to race? That is like claiming race has nothing to do with a plethora of other urban dysfunctions.

It’s as though the Baton Rouge people are on the Titanic and they are mad at people in life boats.

Figured i would just become mayor of BR.

Then, i would hold an opening for a TD mayors council job opening. Then we could have a board on here that could address myself and the TD council and we could get things handled.

“We the People, For the People!”

Having worked there, there is no discipline for unruly kids, no punishment for non-performance, no incentives for achievers, no incentives to try when you don’t know something, etc. There are extremely basic things these schools get wrong with respect to maintaining orderly classrooms, educating students, and basic organizational structure. The fact that the children they’re failing is black is mostly coincidental. The problem is how they’re teaching these students more than the students themselves.

Nearly every child in middle/hs that I encountered who was a serial disruptor in class couldn’t read. They were disruptors because it is impossible to do any middle/hs work without a foundation in literacy. If I could figure that out in a month, why couldn’t the school system? Why when I asked for resources to get these teens help for reading was I constantly denied?

There is no accountability, no communication, no transparency about where money is going, just complete graft, waste, and disfunction.

You could drop 2 million upper-middle class white kids into the EBR Public School system with the same dollar/pupil and teacher/student ratio, and even better facilities, and it would not make a lick of difference. EBR’s schools are bad because it’s a rotten system more so than a bad batch of students.

The housing stock up there isn’t in the best condition, but most of the houses could be renovated into cute bungalows, shotguns, and craftsman style homes. Most of the Plank area isn’t crappy mid century ranch homes or 90’s/aughties mcmansions like the rest of BR.

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void of actual culture

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BR has tons of culture, it just isn't the right kind

Omg we could make north Baton Rouge one big air bnb neighborhood and have quirky local coffee shops and bistros and goat yoga

We should lobby Trader Joe’s to build a grocery store up there

I hear they’re building a new vegan brewpub in silicon valley park by the Tesla gigafactory on balis street baw

I just love gentrification

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I just love gentrification

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And so do my designer dogs in their matching outfits!

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BR is just a redneck cowtown with a hood. It is void of actual culture, it just appropriates culture from the Bayou and New Orleans. Non Catholics trying to celebrate Mardi Gras is super goofy.

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Point 1 is valid. BR is Monroe with the state capitol and flagship university.

Point 2 is valid except add cajun also.

Point 3 is just silly. Mardi Gras is technically a catholic based holiday but that doesn’t mean the whole region can’t celebrate as well. St Patrick’s day is an Irish holiday but Americans love it.

BR is Louisiana’s melting pot. Hence why the intro video states “it is a Louisiana gumbo of humanity”. They know what they are. BR is a little bit of all Louisiana cultures.