re: The Atlantic: The Resegregation of Baton Rouge

Then explain? For the record I live in Zachary,and pay my taxes personally and for my business. My four children also attend private school.

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This is where they scream Baker at you to try to prove you wrong but actually prove your point

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Any they only stayed decent back then because Central was isolated enough geographically to avoid large scale bussing.

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Taxes paid by home and business owners in Zachary,central and the like go to fund those specific towns,correct? If I’m understanding this correctly then you believe that people that live and own property in BR shouldn’t pay taxes to BR?

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No you aren’t understanding situation or the city limits of Baton Rouge. No one living in proposed St George area lives within city limits of Baton Rouge. St George is not breaking away from Baton Rouge or the parrish.

Perhaps if Judge Elmer Gordon West had not sat on the original deseg order from 1963 EBR Parish would not have been in this crazy scenario that it is in today. The deseg order was ignored by Judge West and the school board until 1975 when the 5th Circuit vacated Judge West and gave the case to Judge Parker, and here we are. In 1963 the parish population was much less and there were less schools to desegregate,instead many refused to be bussed and wound up going to private or "magnet" schools. Judge West probably realized that EBR parish would never desegregate.

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He was incapable of understanding why everyone doesn’t live within biking distance to their occupations in a thread a month or so ago

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My kid's school doesn't even have bus service. Maybe she could ride on my handlebars in a 108 degree heat index down Jefferson Hwy

Sure lil guy (pats head)

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St. George is no different. The proposed area is more than 70 percent white and fewer than 15 percent black,

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This is just a flat-out lie. I live in the proposed city of St. George, and can state with certainty this is not true.

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you are a little ineffectual weakiling. You are an embarrassment

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by mouton

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to mouton

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What would actually happen to the kids if they went to “bad” schools?

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Hell, for safety reasons alone I wouldn’t send my kid to one of the bad EBR schools. The Frontline special from 5 years ago stated there were 61 arrests at Woodlawn HS in one year. Then there are the hundreds of disciplinary issues (some violent) that don’t involve arrests. I know teachers and coaches at Woodlawn who have been assaulted. I was at a game between an EBR school and a private BR school when a brawl erupted in the EBR school’s student section and spilled onto the court - students, players, even cheerleaders were throwing haymakers.

If you really want to know more about this topic, talk to someone who has taught at Belaire, Woodlawn, Istrouma, Glen Oaks, etc and ask how it goes on a daily basis. They will tell you the fights usually start before the first bell and they feel bad for the kids who are there to learn. Hard to prepare those kids for college when the kids sitting next to them are duking it out, know what I mean?