re: My family's experience with EBR Schools

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The schools have some control over this by allowing discipline, the problem is that with our overly litigious society you end up with far too many administrators who would rather err on the side of fiscal caution (or at least just don't want to deal with Tammy Sue's meth-addled squawking or Shawquahthentyl's showing up wanting to throw hands because a teacher had the audacity to make their precious boo-boo-bear feel bad because they got onto them for punching another student.

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How is this handled in other districts? That is a major point that I think everyone who has issues with BR schools brings up and it will be an issue at some point for St George as well

Be happy you aren't in Madison, East Carrol, or Morehouse parish. Damn!! EBR is a slice of heaven

I have no clue about BR schools or neighborhoods but glad to hear your child had a good experience and y’all were treated well.

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independent. I see two red flags that you are hovering over both daughters too dam much. Gawd help their husbands.

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they were 3 or 4. Not 13.

Ease up there

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How is this handled in other districts? That is a major point that I think everyone who has issues with BR schools brings up and it will be an issue at some point for St George as well

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That's the problem, many aren't handling it and that's why you see the proliferation of private schools, even in rural parishes that have such a low population there is only one high school. The attention and energy it takes to constantly wear down a school board and/or administration into being more disciplinarian when it may harm the district fiscally is far more than most have to spare. Also, the actions of the bad parents (mentioned above) feed this fiscal fear.

One of my long-time sayings in this is that shitty schools are the product of a shitty community filled with shitty parents who are making shitty kids (due to the constant barrage of bad influences). No school that keeps kids in these environments of constant reinforcement of bad life choices can fix a societal issue that large, at least not overnight (or even over a decade).

So it may well become an issue with St George at some point, but at this point the possibility of failure in creating their own successful system seems preferable to the certainty of failure that staying within the EBR system provides.

So when I started reading this I was wholly prepared to respond with either TLDR or Dear Facebook. But after reading it it kind of got me think...

Dear Facebook

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I have 2 kids in the Zachary schools. Although we are number 1 it has its drawbacks. Part of the criteria and calculations for ranking school districts is how many suspensions and expulsions you have at your schools. There are discipline problems at Zachary schools because of the unwillingness to get rid of bad apples for fear of loosing the #1 ranking. We also have an issue with a large number of out of jurisdiction kids coming to school and the school board unwillingness to crack down. Its not that hard to do. The school system seems more interested in keeping the #1 ranking at all costs rather than doing what is right by the kids.

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So this sounds like a systemic problem among public schools in LA. Another poster stated that financial liability played in role in this issue as well and you say it also has to do with ranking on a state level. I'd be interested in what other factors are involved in what appears to be an unwillingness to deal with disruptive students.

EBR schools suffer b/c so many middle class and affluent familys pull their kids and send them to the private schools. All that MFP money is sucked out and then you're left with what you have now, a district that serves the lowest income students in the parish. Poverty comes with lower achievement levels, behavior problems, etc etc. So then you have teachers who don't want to be there and either go to the Zacharys or privates.