re: LEAP results: EBR continues to decline

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How about fixing what you got instead of running?

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You can't fix what people don't want fixed... Parents all the time say school is important, yet when their child makes a bad grade or gets in trouble it is the teacher or schools fault.
Those that struggle it comes from home, as a teacher I can only do so much. When a student leaves my classroom if they're not getting help at home or home is degrading me or school in general their child is more likely to struggle. When they struggle the parent blames everyone but themself. They don't see the extra time given to their child, the easier material given to the child to build confidence, or the one on one work in the classroom.

Nothing can be fixed by people "saying" they want it fixed but their actions prove otherwise.

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LEAP results: EBR continues to decline
Why does Woodlawn High score so low?

What about Woodlawn Middle and SE Middle. How are their scores?

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Students being bussed in from other parts of the parish

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You can't fix what people don't want fixed... Parents all the time say school is important, yet when their child makes a bad grade or gets in trouble it is the teacher or schools fault.
Those that struggle it comes from home, as a teacher I can only do so much. When a student leaves my classroom if they're not getting help at home or home is degrading me or school in general their child is more likely to struggle. When they struggle the parent blames everyone but themself. They don't see the extra time given to their child, the easier material given to the child to build confidence, or the one on one work in the classroom.

Nothing can be fixed by people "saying" they want it fixed but their actions prove otherwise

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My wife finally got a transfer in her district. For the last 7 years she has taught at Title 1 schools (kinder) which are basically poor schools. She taught 6 years at one that was 95% disadvantaged. Last year she was at a 60% one. The school she will be at is a brand new one in a high end neighborhood (we actually have neighborhood school in Texas, what a CRAZY concept). I would guess it will be less than 5% disadvantaged. I have a feeling the stress and problems she has dealt with for the past 7 year will magically go away.

I understand that and more of a reason to have an ISD in south EBR.

It should easily out score the lab school since it is a magnet program.

The very fact the differences between the two school score are so narrow should be a concern.

Excellent post...Spot On

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Zachary was the highest rated district.

And Baker is one of the lowest. I wonder what the difference is that causes that....???

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Baker and Zachary had very similar populations. Lots of blue collar plant workers, white and black, few private options other than Redemptorist. In 1982 Scotlandville High was closed, and half those kids went to Baker, the other half went to Glen Oaks/Belaire/elsewhere. Central and Zachary were too far to bus them, so those schools stayed with local kids. The white exodus began from Baker, and now all my classmates live in Central, Zachary and BR or elsewhere, not Baker. Zachary retained its local students with interested local parents and support, and now are the top district in the State.

Well stated tduecen.

Here are my reasons for failure in BR besides the obvious ones...

A) You make kids who live damn near the Miss River Bridge attend a school like Tara or Broadmoor. Look at Tara's neighborhood. Houses that cost between 150-300 K. Those kids bus there and they feel out of place. They'll have ZERO pride for that school. The zoning issues are fricked. The kids who act out and make F's and don't care are the ones who live an hour busride away (after multiple stops).

B) Too many teachers who are there for pay and vacation...not enough GREAT educators. There are more and more "aids" and "special ed teachers" who really have no credentials to be such.

C) Horeshit lunch programs. Kids are eating the eqivalency to Angola inmates. Crappy service...crappy choices. Pizza and a side of corn? Also, look at what Dunham and St. Joe/Catholic get to eat. The FEDS cannot out do that? Give the damn kids a salad bar and take away Big Texas honeybuns.

D) Incompetency from the central school board office. Did the ones who got rejected by the DMV end up there?

Public school needs to be reinvented. I do not know how to do that, but it's what is needed.

And stop re-zoning kids. Kids start at Belaire and then go to Tara and end up at Glen Oaks.

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And stop re-zoning kids. Kids start at Belaire and then go to Tara and end up at Glen Oaks.

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When schools either closed or went to RSD, the kids had to go somewhere.