re: Sayonara St. George...

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you think the majority of mall workers are taking the bus?

and I'm out of touch

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Yes.

You'd be surprised how many people can't afford to drive because of gas prices, insurance, or having cars break down because they are not good cars.

There is more to the mall employee structure than the effeminate male who helps you buy your khakis at the GAP.

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you think the majority of mall workers are taking the bus?

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This. Even with the shitty St. Vincent mall by Scruffy's house in Shreveport that isn't the case.

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First of all, nobody living in CCL goes to BRCC.

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Myself and several of my friends growing up were members at both country clubs...

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I thought he meant BRCC = Baton Rouge Community College, which would make the make sense.

And FWIW, I too, don't have too many problems avoiding the bad traffic roads in BR. I can make it from the Garden District to Perkins & Essen at 4 in about 20-25 minutes, or around 4:30 I can go from Mid-City to Perkins/Essen in about 30. But I'm not going to let anyone know where my secret passages are!

St George is the only hope of improving the garbage public schools of EBR, if you don't side with St. George, you are a tard

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I thought he meant BRCC = Baton Rouge Community College, which would make the make sense.

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I think TheCat was just making an ISWYDT. I lol'd.

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St George is the only hope of improving the garbage public schools of EBR, if you don't side with St. George, you are a tard

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Those mired in mediocrity want all others to remain in a state of mediocrity.

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You live next to a black hole you create, you get sucked down with it.

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This is exactly what Scruffy is talking about. Those stuck in the black hole don't want anyone to escape.

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St George is the only hope of improving the garbage public schools of EBR, if you don't side with St. George, you are a tard

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St George already has it's own school district bro. The problem is it isn't funded. The reason this is even a topic is because Bodi White told the St George fellows that the only way to get the funding was to become their own city (like Central did).

So, the wise guys that started this crap did it essentially to get funding for an existing school district. They used tax money secured by the Metro Council, Brac, and various other partnerships with the City-Parish to "prove" that they could fund not only the district but an entirely new city.

What is happening now is that businesses that had unspoken partnerships with the City Parish are making those partnerships known through annexation petitions. This means that St. George can no longer claim they can fund their "city" it also means that they can't fund their district.

St. George's claim was to improve the schools by making them neighborhood schools. That is already in the works in the legislature thanks to BRAC.

If the leaders of St. George had any fricking sense, they'd claim this as a victory and bow out. But they don't, and they'll go down with the ship.

My advice to you is if you want to talk about shite, learn about it. If do that and you still feel like mean ole BR is keeping you down, then leave.

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What the poster said was dead on. They are tied to the hip, and nothing is going to isolate the proposed St. George area from the negative effects of Baton Rouge save a moat with alligators, and the Berlin Wall, complete with checkpoints and guard towers and machine gun nests.

If anything, the mere perception that St. George will give better public education than BR offers will cause attrition in BR, and also cause it to become less densely populated, and ripe for one huge ghetto to be your next door neighbor, and section 8 and tax credit properties to come on line all over St. George to fill the market for schools that St. George itself created. I know this because BR is already overbuilding multi family housing, and this will only exacerbate a problem already on the horizon for the older properties around town tinkering with the idea already to keep them afloat and paying their own bills.

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well maybe you should stop your city government from doing that. the people out of the city see a quick solution to postpone this fall of their area. Maybe once the government of BR starts to see the degradation they might get off their arse and try to fix things rather than taking parish taxes that should be spent on the parish and covering the city of BR with a bandaid.

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Want to fix the problem? Fix the mentality of thinking you can run from your problems or isolate yourselves from them like you're an island instead of dealing with them as a community

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you go up to North BR and try to fix their mentality. Let me know how well that works for you. What i know that doesnt work is shipping their kids to a school built in a nicer neighborhood.

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Soon, I guarantee you that if this pattern continues, there will be countless people sitting in track houses I. The middle of a pasture in Prarieville next door to an aging strip center and Walmart with crime invading it, traveling arse loads of time into the same ghetto wondering what in the F they were thinking, and the younger ones blaming the older ones for not fighting for their city when they had a chance to do so, instead being content with pasture and prairie land as their consolation prize, feeling more than a little ripped off.

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as crime moves out the gays have already started to fix up the urban areas just in time for the people with money to come in and take over. happening as we speak in NOLA.