re: The Atlantic: The Resegregation of Baton Rouge

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because I worked really hard to make it that way.

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Which is precisely what Americans have done for decades to put their kids on a productive learning environment

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quote: “So why has EBR district declined while private schools thrive and seemingly Zachary and Central thriving as well? Did the people leaving EBR schools cause district to lose too much parental involvement to overcome solvable problems? Why is this?”

I graduated from Central. The schools weren't terrible before but immediately improved when they split away from EBRPSS.

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I knew some people that went to Central before it split away. Not growing up in Baton Rouge I was surprised at the time it was then in same school district as schools in Baton Rouge. Drive to my friend’s parents house was longer than I expected back then.

I was more wondering about XIV’s opinion on parental involvement solving problems in schools and why communities leaving district and parents sending kids to private schools would effect remaining parents in EBR school district to continue to be involved enough to keep EBR district from declining over time.

His arguments sound like blaming racism for white flight while also blaming white flight for a lot of EBR schools’ issues both now and in future. I am not quite sure he has grasped his implication that EBR school district needs people he is saying are racist, and That with less of these “racist” whites the EBR district schools will not get same amount of parental involvement to overcome what he called solvable issues.

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Which is precisely what Americans have done for decades to put their kids on a productive learning environment

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Then they are failures, or else there would be no “need” for St. George. That is, they are essentially no different from that from which they’re trying to break away.

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Just curious.... How do you things would transpire if a pussy like you met a person like me in real life?

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Fly that L, fatty.

Lol

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Then they are failures

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Sounds like someone is sore he's getting stuck zoned with shitty schools.

You should move

Shoot. I have an elementary school that’s walking distance from my house, but I gotta cut a check to send my kid to catholic school.

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Sounds like someone is sore he's getting stuck zoned with shitty schools.

You should move

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Nah

Let’s have a beer.

Yep. Moved to Spanish Town from Brooklyn with xivette a few months ago. It’s great being back home.

Most people think that not a whole lot goes on in Baton Rouge, but when every parade and festival is walking distance from da crib, and when all my alma mater’s sporting events are a 20-minute levee bike ride away (+ free parking a few feet from the gate amirite), I feel like the richest man in the whole world.

Speaking of bikes, I’ve seen about every square foot of the old city from the cyclist’s perspective, and you can shite on me all you want, but you suburb baws (subaws) are missing out. There’s enough room in this town that if decent folk like y’all filled it out, then the entire city changes immediately, presumably for the better.

People have realized this in all the big cities where white flight has pretty much reversed its pattern, and cities the size of Baton Rouge are in that next tier. It’s gonna happen. But if you wanna spend the rest of your life commuting an hour to work so that your Jadens can go to school with other Jadens, that’s up to you.

ETA: I’m not having a beer with you.