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re: Pinpoint exactly when BR took a turn for the worst...
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:29 pm to Catman88
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:29 pm to Catman88
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When that judge started the order to bus kids all over the Damn place. Destroyed the entire school system so that they would all be equally bad.
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Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:31 pm to PiscesTiger
BR’s decline happened in stages:
1. Oil crunch of the 80’s
2. Judge Parker’s de-seg order
3. Crack epidemic
4. Raising of the drinking age to 21 and crack down on live music
Then you had the start of the downtown recovery with moving the government offices downtown and the revitalization of Spanish Town in the 90’s. Zachary gets an ISD in 2003. Central incorporates in 2005.
5. Katrina refugees descended like locusts
6. Efforts to create ISD in southeast br fails
7. F. King Alexander named LSU President and joe Alleva named AD
8. State budget crunch shudders hiring at state agencies
9. Moratorium on oil & gas
Chem/refining boom brings a lot of construction jobs to the area
10. St. George movement fails
11. Police shootings
12. JBE elected governor
13. The great flood devastates suburbs
14. SWB is elected and staffs her transition team with radical race baiters.
1. Oil crunch of the 80’s
2. Judge Parker’s de-seg order
3. Crack epidemic
4. Raising of the drinking age to 21 and crack down on live music
Then you had the start of the downtown recovery with moving the government offices downtown and the revitalization of Spanish Town in the 90’s. Zachary gets an ISD in 2003. Central incorporates in 2005.
5. Katrina refugees descended like locusts
6. Efforts to create ISD in southeast br fails
7. F. King Alexander named LSU President and joe Alleva named AD
8. State budget crunch shudders hiring at state agencies
9. Moratorium on oil & gas
Chem/refining boom brings a lot of construction jobs to the area
10. St. George movement fails
11. Police shootings
12. JBE elected governor
13. The great flood devastates suburbs
14. SWB is elected and staffs her transition team with radical race baiters.
This post was edited on 3/22/18 at 9:47 am
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:31 pm to PiscesTiger
When they found a turd floating in the wave pool at Blue Bayou.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:32 pm to PiscesTiger
During the great white flight of N. Baton Rouge.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:33 pm to PetroBabich
When Sherman became President. Book-ended with F king Alexander.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:36 pm to PiscesTiger
Around the early 80s, BR retail stores started opening on Sundays.
This is why Chick-fil-A is so very successful. frick working on Sunday. That's a day of rest, mother frickers.
This is why Chick-fil-A is so very successful. frick working on Sunday. That's a day of rest, mother frickers.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 11:38 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:39 pm to rpr4695
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:44 pm to Nonetheless
1862
Posted on 3/22/18 at 12:13 am to PiscesTiger
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Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to 12000 – 6500 BC, based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers.[14][15]
So, approximately 12000-6500 BC.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 12:30 am to kingbob
quote:
BR’s decline happened in stages:
1. Oil crunch of the 80’s
2. Judge Parker’s de-seg order
3. Crack epidemic
4. Raising of the drinking age to 21 and crack down on live music
Then you had the start of the downtown recovery with moving the government offices downtown and the revitalization of Spanish Town in the 90’s. Zachary gets an ISD in 2003. Central incorporates in 2005.
5. Katrina refugees descended like locusts
6. Efforts to create ISD in southeast br fails
7. F. King Alexander named LSU President and joe Alleva named AD
8. State budget crunch shudders hiring at state agencies
9. Moratorium on oil & gas
Chem/refining boom brings a lot of construction jobs to the area
10. St. George movement fails
Police shootings
11. JBE elected governor
12. The great flood devastates suburbs
13. SWB is elected and staffs her transition team with radical race baiters.
Pretty succinct summary.
I think the decline of the public school system and Katrina are the biggest pitfalls.
I don't see how one would choose to send your kids to a public school by choice with the current performance standards. Exceptions would be Magnet programs or Charter schools.
BR was making meaningful improvements in roads that yielded benefit prior to Katrina. The instantaneous and persistent post-Katrina growth of the city negated many of those gains with increased volume that never subsided.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 2:08 am to PiscesTiger
1993
Posted on 3/22/18 at 4:47 am to Catman88
quote:
When that judge started the order to bus kids all over the Damn place. Destroyed the entire school system so that they would all be equally bad.
!960's and yes not only BR, but the rest of the state went to shite.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:27 am to PiscesTiger
quote:
Pinpoint exactly when BR took a turn for the worst...
According to this article , it was precisely 1975.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:29 am to PiscesTiger
1981
Year of consent decree for public schools in EBR.
Year of consent decree for public schools in EBR.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:30 am to PiscesTiger
Love the BR sucks threads. Haven’t had one yet today.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:40 am to terriblegreen
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Love the BR sucks threads. Haven’t had one yet today.
To be honest, there isn’t anything else about Baton Rouge to talk about.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:44 am to kingbob
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12. The great flood devastates suburbs
The flood was one of the better things that happened to BR.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:54 am to Huck Finn
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This post was edited on 3/22/18 at 7:00 am
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:55 am to Capt ST
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Kind of hard for a parent with no vehicle to get a lift from downtown to Woodlawn for a PTA meeting.
I went to Woodlawn.
I still remember when it really hit me after a track meet when I offered a ride home to a teammate.
He lived at Fairfields & N Acadian.
On the other hand, Woodlawn had an outstanding Long and triple jumper.
This post was edited on 3/22/18 at 8:57 am
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:58 am to rpr4695
Alleva is such a disgusting disgrace of a man
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