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re: St. George Movement is Back!
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:07 pm to TeddyPadillac
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:07 pm to TeddyPadillac
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what did those middle class families do when their kids where in daycare? Two kids in daycare is $15-20K/yr
They struggled and cut corners for a few years knowing it would be over in 3-4 years until their kid was old enough for pre-K. Are you trying to equate 3-4 years of daycare to 13 years of private school tuition?
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Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:10 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
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Again, F&W concluded that a massive increase in property taxes would be require to fund these things, while the out-of-state firm that StG hired concluded that the city would have a surplus with the current millage rates.
The F&W study was paid for by Baton Rouge Area Foundation and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, you dipshit. Don't act like there wasn't just as much bias in that study as the one StG paid for.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:12 pm to Tiger Prawn
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Check back when you get the first tuition bill for private high school
I'm aware that costs more, but the catholic elementary schools in Baton Rouge aren't expensive.
Catholic High is a far better school than any of the best surrounding public high schools. I'd pay for my kid to go there regardless of how good a new St. George High School would perceived to be.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:16 pm to TigersSEC2010
Count me out.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:18 pm to TeddyPadillac
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Catholic High is a far better school than any of the best surrounding public high schools.
Not sure how accurate this list is... but it has Catholic in the top 25 for Louisiana high schools, and Zachary, Dutchtown, and St. Amant all in the 26-50 range. Whether that's "far better" is up for interpretation, but I know for the $$ I'd choose the public schools. I also feel like home environment is just as (if not more) important than the schools themselves.
There's no reason a high school (or two) in St. George wouldn't be in the same range as Zachary or Dutchtown. The demographics will be pretty similar.
ETA: LINK
This post was edited on 3/2/18 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:19 pm to doubleb
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The BR metro region hasn't not been served well when you look at the big picture; highways, bridges and flood control.
I agree completely. The region gets the shaft on a lot of federal and state projects.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:26 pm to MikeBRLA
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They struggled and cut corners for a few years knowing it would be over in 3-4 years until their kid was old enough for pre-K. Are you trying to equate 3-4 years of daycare to 13 years of private school tuition?
If you can pay for daycare, you can pay for private school, and private schools in Baton Rouge offer a lot more than public schools ever will. you can say what you want about how great Central and Zachary and Dutchtown are, they don't come close to comparing to Catholic High.
Those 3 schools have average ACT scores that are twice as close to Woodlawn and McKinley than they are to Catholic and Episcopal.
Woodlawn/McKinley are around 18
Zachary/Central/Dutchtown are around 21 (Lee was at 21 too)
Catholic was at 26 last year.
That's a big difference.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:31 pm to TeddyPadillac
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Catholic High is a far better school than any of the best surrounding public high schools. I'd pay for my kid to go there regardless of how good a new St. George High School would perceived to be.
A St. George ISD won't threaten Catholic High but could potentially threaten Parkview, St. Michael, and Runnels.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:32 pm to LSUBoo
Your link is not a good tool to use to judge how good a school is.
60% of a schools ranking is based on ACT scores, and some surveys that no one should be relying on.
10% is based on diversity, as if that's somehow important. CHS gets a bad rating b/c it's too white.
20% more is from more surveys on the school and teachers.
I put little faith in surveying a small fraction of a group and saying thats what the group thinks.
60% of a schools ranking is based on ACT scores, and some surveys that no one should be relying on.
10% is based on diversity, as if that's somehow important. CHS gets a bad rating b/c it's too white.
20% more is from more surveys on the school and teachers.
I put little faith in surveying a small fraction of a group and saying thats what the group thinks.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:33 pm to TigersSEC2010
I didn't sign it last time but I will this time and you can bet your arse there's tons of people like me.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:34 pm to Loubacca
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All they would have to do to end this is go back to neighborhood schools.
That is much easier said then done. You first have to convince parents to send their kids to the schools that are in the neighborhood that are currently either majority black and or low rated. Our neighborhood is 99% white. The neighborhood school is 3% white. My daughter actually goes to this neighborhood school. She is in a special class with about 10 other kids for gifted but the whole school is well disciplined and the staff are great. Hardly anybody in the neighborhood wants to take a chance with the school though. I plan on posting our family's experience with an EBR school at a later date.
This post was edited on 3/2/18 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:35 pm to fallguy_1978
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I live about 2 drivers and a 3 wood inside of the city limits
Thats about 1200 yards for me
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:35 pm to TigersSEC2010
Didn’t sign last time. Definitely signing this time.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:38 pm to Cosmo
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Thats about 1200 yards for me
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:39 pm to Antonio Moss
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A St. George ISD won't threaten Catholic High but could potentially threaten Parkview, St. Michael, and Runnels.
I agree with that.
Parkview ACT was at 24 last year.
St Micheal was a hair under 24.
Dutchtown was just over 22.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:41 pm to TeddyPadillac
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I agree with that.
Parkview ACT was at 24 last year.
St Micheal was a hair under 24.
Dutchtown was just over 22.
It also has to do with geography. Catholic pulls kids in from all over the Baton Rouge area. However, the vast majority of kids in St. Michael and Parkview come from the area that would be within the ISD.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:41 pm to TigersSEC2010
This is rasis
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:43 pm to TeddyPadillac
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If you can pay for daycare, you can pay for private school, and private schools in Baton Rouge
No. We did exactly what MikeBRLA said. We struggled for 3-4 years then sent our kids to public schools. I would love to send my kids to private school but we simply cant afford it. Why do you think so many middle income families are moving out of the EBR parish? Its not because they can afford private school but choose not to and would rather sit in traffic for 45 minutes every day.
This post was edited on 3/2/18 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:47 pm to TeddyPadillac
There are plenty of parents who struggle and make sacrifices so that their kids can go to private schools instead of the public schools in EBR. My son is currently at one of the top EBR public elementary schools but he already knows that once he hits middle school he’s going private. It will be tough for me to afford it... which is why a new St. George district is right up my alley. Might not be quite on the level of Catholic but if it’s on a level similar to Zachary or Central I’d be ok with it.
Posted on 3/2/18 at 2:50 pm to TeddyPadillac
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Catholic High is a far better school than any of the best surrounding public high schools
No shite. Why are you even trying to make a comparison? Catholic isn't the easiest school to get into either. If you don't get into Catholic you're going to have to choose a private school that cost a lot, but probably is not any better than Zachary, Dutchtown or Denham Springs.
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