re: The ramblings of a St. George opponent

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PVille 2.0

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No doubt about it..


If only BR were an island in the gulf, with limited land to evacuate to, then with their backs against the wall, you wouldn't have to actually explain why it's important to invest in your own city rather than evacuate it, or trick yourself with a mall down the street from another mall that looks like a downtown, yet is far removed from your actual downtown, and the building fronts and chains dominating the landscape are as fake as the whole reasoning behind it all. One big trick we play on ourselves to play make believe rather than really do it. Playing community rather than being a community. It's ridiculous.




Meanwhile, back on Main Street in and near Mid City lies a virtual ghost town for all intents and purposes, almost completely forgotten about by people occupying the proposed St. George area they have long referred to as Baton Rouge. Dangerous? Not even. You have to have a population of some significance to be considered dangerous.

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Now go find ONE post I've made that says I think EBR schools as a whole are acceptable. Just one. You can't do it because I've never said that.

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Then why are you defending it like its the second coming? I also understand that schools are not the only reason to break away from the city. I went to probably the worst school in the district and feel like the entire system needs to be blown to smithereens and rebuilt. Why do you feel like the system needs to be retained and throw money into the abyss that is the EBRSS?

I thought the St. George fad had run its course

There are no issues at BRH with safety. All the kids that go there perform or they are kicked out. Why is it impossible that they would do the same at Woodlawn after St. George's incorporation?

I'm a BR resident that owns property in BR and St. George areas. I'm just about done with the EBR school system. I'm not for St. George because it would be bad for BR but I certainly understand the move behind it.

BR needs to hurry up and create another BRH style magnet school or they (we) are done.

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ere is no busing now from North Baton Rouge to Woodlawn, unless the attendance zone maps are wrong.

If your brother was judging the kid with the gun by his race, he may be coming from the Gardere area, which will still be in the Woodlawn High School attendance zone if SG forms its own district.

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I'd be willing to bet the maps are wrong. He is very informed for being a high school student and isn't the type to say things like this without solid information to back it up.

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If people are that worried about their kids' schooling, why don't they just send them to private school?

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I'm a public school educated buddhist holding my nose and preparing to send my kid to a catholic school.

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So all the permanent and indirect jobs created by those businesses and economic activity they generate are sub-optimal compared to a BILLION DOLLAR TAX for a hundred and fifty to two-hundred part-time jobs and a downtown theme park that most local residents will visit once and never go again, and schools will use as an excuse as a day not to teach annually each year?

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I have kids and we love taking them to museums, zoos, theaters (not amc type theaters), public festivals, and events for charity in BR and New Orleans. Way more entertaining and enlightening for the fam than a day at an outlet mall. I hate seeing more and more shopping centers being built and people defending them like its a good thing for the community.
O and use the old Woodlawn high area for fundraising festivals or cook offs if they dont already. Its a perfect spot that seems to go unused.

I was banging the SG school district drum till it went from creating a school district to creating a city. I all aboard for a school district fight. Just not a city.

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If people are that worried about their kids' schooling, why don't they just send them to private school?

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Not sure if an extra $8 - $10k is feasible for the average family.

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You're a joke. Not even opponents of St.George think EBRPSS is good.

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I've never said the EBRSS as a whole is good.

I've pointed out there are some excellent schools within the EBRSS.

And I've correctly pointed out that after 47 years of being run by the federal courts, which almost destroyed our public school system, the school system is finally showing some, but not enough yet, improvement since the local school board can actually run the schools again

I can always determine when I'm winning the debate on SG because its proponents, like you, on this board have to resort to claiming I've made statements I've never made.

You have to do it because you can't prove anything I actually written to be incorrect. So you make up stuff just to give the appearance you can prove me wrong, which you can't.

Why don't you tell everyone again how the St George area generates 60% of all the taxes paid to East Baton Rouge Parish in spite of the FACT that the EBR 2014 budget is over $800 million and the proposed SG budget is only $80 million?

It looks like YOU are the real joke.....

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Bussing was stopped over a decade ago. He is misinformed.

Now maybe the kid rides the city bus and uses a local address

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I graduated from Woodlawn in 2009, I know for a fact that half the guys I played football with were from Scotlandville. There is no way that bussing stopped over a decade ago. All I used to hear about was fights at the bus transfer area.

I'd say that my brother is very informed and you are just believing what you hear.