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re: My family's experience with EBR Schools
Posted on 9/23/19 at 2:49 pm to ThuperThumpin
Posted on 9/23/19 at 2:49 pm to ThuperThumpin
My wife and I are products of Catholic schools, had a great experience with them and thus decided to raised our children this way. But for the record, if you have the means and live in BR it's going to pretty much be the best option you have.
I also have friends who send their kids to Mayfair. They've had an excellent experience and it's awesome to see that. I'm more than happy to know my taxes fund schools like this one for those that wish to use EBR public schools.
But Mayfair is a massive outlier to the other 90 public schools in EBR and I'm pretty sure you know that. When a school system is forced to tout their magnet schools to hopefully spur enrollment, what does that say for the vast majority of non-magnet schools?
EBRSS is broken and there's no way it's going to be fixed. At this point, the only way to salvage ANY part of it is to allow another system to have an opportunity to fix it.
A vote for St George is a vote to save EBR Parish. I honestly think this is our last, best chance.
I also have friends who send their kids to Mayfair. They've had an excellent experience and it's awesome to see that. I'm more than happy to know my taxes fund schools like this one for those that wish to use EBR public schools.
But Mayfair is a massive outlier to the other 90 public schools in EBR and I'm pretty sure you know that. When a school system is forced to tout their magnet schools to hopefully spur enrollment, what does that say for the vast majority of non-magnet schools?
EBRSS is broken and there's no way it's going to be fixed. At this point, the only way to salvage ANY part of it is to allow another system to have an opportunity to fix it.
A vote for St George is a vote to save EBR Parish. I honestly think this is our last, best chance.
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Posted on 9/23/19 at 2:50 pm to Golfer
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The fact that EBR has a bus transfer station is insanity.
When I was in elementary school I would pass by my school on the bus ride to the transfer station
I also grew up "literally" across the street from another elementary school (my driveway was parallel with the main entrance), but there were "too many white kids" there already so I was bussed across town. Did that for 3 weeks before my parents decided to just pay for private school to get rid of the 5:45 AM bus rides as a kindergartener.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 2:53 pm to ThuperThumpin
sweet, now do high schools
Posted on 9/23/19 at 2:54 pm to chryso
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If all the good kids leave the school it will be worse. If the good kids return it will be better
The good kids aren't returning, buddy. More and more of the good kids are being moved to Ascension and Livingston Parish schools every day. Let me know how it works out when your 5th grader is at Westdale...
Posted on 9/23/19 at 2:56 pm to Ed Osteen
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sweet, now do high schools
I think Woodlawn is the only non magnet that has a C grade. All others are D or F (mostly F)
Posted on 9/23/19 at 2:57 pm to Ed Osteen
quote:If I'm not mistaken Woodlawn is the only high School in St. George. If that's wrong someone please correct me, but I can't think of another.
sweet, now do high schools
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:02 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Woodlawn is the only high school in proposed St. George, but I thought they were magnet? Or maybe GT? Its changed quite a bit the last 20 years, when I got out of the GT program after Istrouma Middle the only options were McKinley or Scotlandville. BR High wouldn't even consider you if you were gifted unless you lived right by the school.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:05 pm to LouisianaLady
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I live in University Acres (not far from Magnolia Wood), and we have an elementary school in the neighborhood. I say this all the time. Its a nice looking school, the neighborhood is great and quiet, etc. But I don't think any of the neighborhood kids attend.
That school is ghetto as frick and one of the worst in the area. All the kids on the north side of Gardere go there.
Them rich folks ain't sending their kids to school with them.
But the Fatboy 5K Race day sees a lot of white people on its campus.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:07 pm to ThuperThumpin
I am a proponent of a three tier system.A constantly expanding magnet program . A mainstream program that focuses on kids who behave themselves but who aren’t academic superstars . And throwaway babysitting schools for the a-hole kids who ruin the experience for all the good kids. Sadly in BR, that third category is the growth area.If parents felt their kids would be safe and well educated , they’d send their kids to public schools.
I appreciate the OP’s take .
I appreciate the OP’s take .
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:09 pm to fallguy_1978
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I think Woodlawn is the only non magnet that has a C grade. All others are D or F (mostly F)
Wut Wut! Panther Pride Muthafrickas!!!
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:10 pm to fallguy_1978
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I think Woodlawn is the only non magnet that has a C grade. All others are D or F (mostly F)
That is insane.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:13 pm to Evil Little Thing
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That is insane.
Yep, and that is why St. George is happening. All they wanted were their own schools to give their kids an option other than the cesspool of the EBRPSS, but they were blocked and underhanded politics was played at every step of the way to keep a stranglehold on those tax dollars, and here we are.
This post was edited on 9/23/19 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:13 pm to Evil Little Thing
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That is insane.
Some have fallen off quite a bit since the late 80s to mid 90s. Broadmoor and Tara used to be decent schools. Hell even Belaire wasn't that bad in the early 90s.
There are good public schools in the burbs and the magnets.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:17 pm to ThuperThumpin
How are the public schools in the current proposed area of St George? I do wonder if the families that are supporting the break that currently send their kids to private schools would be wiling to switch to public if the schools were better. Better schools require better students and parents.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:17 pm to Golfer
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By bringing back neighborhood schools. The fact that EBR has a bus transfer station is insanity.
I caught the bus at daybreak....did the whole transfer thing from 4-5th grade. I lived across the street from a school and it's why my parents originally bought our home.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:20 pm to Lsupimp
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I am a proponent of a three tier system.A constantly expanding magnet program . A mainstream program that focuses on kids who behave themselves but who aren’t academic superstars . And throwaway babysitting schools for the a-hole kids who ruin the experience for all the good kids. Sadly in BR, that third category is the growth area.If parents felt their kids would be safe and well educated , they’d send their kids to public schools.
I appreciate the OP’s take .
We might as well get the bottom tier kids' fingerprints and DNA while they're being babysat so they can be tied to their crimes in the future.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:23 pm to LouisianaLady
I went to the elementary school in University Acres from 1963-69, two older sisters and younger brother also, we walked from College Hills. Most all students at the school at that time walked or rode bikes to school.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:25 pm to ThuperThumpin
Just move to a Texas suburb and send your kid to the school around the block.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:28 pm to ThuperThumpin
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When my 1st daughter was 3
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We were given a shot during the first round but she choked during the testing and refused to take part of it. We had prepared her as best we could but she just got really nervous and did not pass to get in.
Yeah, that is complete BS you have to go through that and coach a 3 year old to pass a written exam to have a prayer of sending your kid to a non-threatening school.
Posted on 9/23/19 at 3:32 pm to ThuperThumpin
Good friend moved back to Baton Rouge after having been gone for years and had a daughter just about to go into 9th grade. Nice kid but very petite and reserved child. McKinley High was where she was supposed to go based on them living in SouthDowns. He went and toured the school with her during the summer. Said the school looked OK but then the Asst Principal (black guy) sat him down in his office and straight up told him he shouldn’t put his lily white daughter at that school. He told me he was stunned but thanked the guy and put her in private school.
What does it say about the school system when the people working there recognize it is a war zone?
What does it say about the school system when the people working there recognize it is a war zone?
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