re: St. George on track to collect signatures needed to be put on ballot

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Kip's crowning achievement.

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No. Shrinking I-10E at the MRB to one lane was.

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quote: Kip's crowning achievement. No. Shrinking I-10E at the MRB to one lane was.

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Please tell me you're joking.

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How is that deflecting? What could be possibly tell me to instill hope in his vision for the school system that sucks too much to trust his own kids to?

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What school did they go to?



You do know that private schools, like Catholic High, are very legacy based? People who went there send their kids there and are very active in said school.

The alumni association at catholic is huge.

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the only ones happy with it are the fortunate minority who proclaim we are better gether(sic), but who elect not to send their children to anything but a magnet or gifted school

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The problem with generalizations is that they are wrong. We have five kids, all of whom have attended public schools, with the last one graduating from BRMHS in May. Our kids have attended neighborhood schools for elementary and middle school and BRMHS or McKinley for gifted/talented for high school...all were well-prepared for successful college careers. I live within the proposed St. George boundary and work downtown and am optomistic about the many positive changes taking place in EBRP. Parental choice and concern for the broader BR community are reasons why I am strong opponent of the St. George movement. I will soon no longer have a dog in the fight, but will do what I can to be a part of the education effort prior to the vote.

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quote: Absolutely false. How many fraudulent signatures were there?

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Couple thousand.
He's confusing fraudulent with forged.

In all fairness, it was 6. The others you may be referring to were simply invalidated.

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They bitch about neglect by the City-Parish while conveniently forgetting about the millions and millions of dollars that the C-P spent on transportation and sanitary sewer improvements in that area.

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Perhaps. But I've been waiting for over a year to have someone from CP come out and look at what I suspect to be a leaking storm drain in my yard causing a sinkhole. There was a spot where I would literally drop to knee level because of the erosion. I had to put fill dirt into it myself but with all the rain we've had it's sinking more. Repeated calls to CP were useless and basically made me feel like, since you are in that SG area we'll get to you when ever we feel like it.

Way to be better together.

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They bitch about neglect by the City-Parish while conveniently forgetting about the millions and millions of dollars that the C-P spent on transportation and sanitary sewer improvements in that area.

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And just where do you think that money came from? You speak as though it was a gift to have some of one's tax dollars spent in their own area.

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When the guy at DPW looked at that complaint, I'm sure that's exactly what he thought.

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The problem with generalizations is that they are wrong. We have five kids, all of whom have attended public schools, with the last one graduating from BRMHS in May. Our kids have attended neighborhood schools for elementary and middle school and BRMHS or McKinley for gifted/talented for high school...all were well-prepared for successful college careers. I live within the proposed St. George boundary and work downtown and am optomistic about the many positive changes taking place in EBRP. Parental choice and concern for the broader BR community are reasons why I am strong opponent of the St. George movement. I will soon no longer have a dog in the fight, but will do what I can to be a part of the education effort prior to the vote.

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Mine went to public elementary schools. Mine started out at middle school in a gifted program.

When I saw the next option was not for me, I put them in private schools although each could have gone to a gifted program or a magnet program in high school.

I did that because it kept them in the neighborhood, and still prepared them for college, etc.

Thank God I could afford that. In your case thank God each of your five kids were high achievers.

But what happens to those that are say average students. where do they go to school?

I believe each high school in a school district should have a college prep curriculum with honors courses for the high achievers, and regular courses for others that say aren't looking for college prep courses.

Why can't all kids in a region go to school together and choose their curriculum? Why do we need Magnet Schools at all? Why separate kids, bus them are car pool them across town, or take them out of the neighborhood and send them miles away when you could have those classes right at the neighborhood high school?

Right now we have a super school at BRHS. There are super facilities and super students and teachers. No question about it. For the most part parents are very active and the school has tremendous support. Lee High is getting ready to reopen and it has many of the same advantages. How many hundred will be bused in or transported in to Lee High from all over the parish?

Students aren't together. They are labeled and divided. Why should BRHS, Lee High School, and other programs get better facilities, better teachers, and all the advantages?

You are optimistic about the school system. Why? We passed several taxes several years ago for new school, better teachers and better discipline. We haven't seen any really big positive results.

Instead we've seen discipline issues, hints of scandal, several superintendents, and a lot of the same ole same ole.

I honestly hope the new guy from Zachary is a game changer. He could be, but history tells me he won't be. There are too many who are for business as usual. The entrenched bureaucracy, the unions, and the politicians who all want the status quo are not going to let things change.