re: What can you tell my about Oak Forest in Amite

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The principal there this year came from Bowling Green in Franklinton. He's a huge sports guy, in fact I'd dare say he cares about sports/academics 90/10. He's what we call out in the real world "a no talent pussy". He's a yes man for the board and that's why he's been promoted from football coach to running both schools. He will treat your kid like dogshit unless you're of some use to him.

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I’m not aware of any connection between the current headmaster and Bowling Green. Do we have the same person?

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I’m not aware of any connection between the current headmaster and Bowling Green. Do we have the same person?

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He's not the headmaster.

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You aren’t talking about Jason Brabham are you?

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No. I'm talking about the principal of the high school.

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GREEN is the last name of the fella that started the school. His daughter is still an employee there, and she's given a music teacher job for the sake of her having something to do. You WILL go to the annual nut cracker play and your attendance is a grade for your child, just so this woman has a crowd for her play. The principal is the daughter in law of this woman, and she doesn't have the skills to run a snow ball stand, much less a school.

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As they say in Franktown, You right, but you ain't right.

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The guy in charge is from Amite and went to school there from the info they gave me.

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The headmaster is from Amite, Drew Misita. The other guy being talked about is Phil Junkins. He is the head football coach and I believe Dean of Students. He is not the headmaster. Misita was the previous head coach and decided he couldn’t do both jobs and give 100% to each.

ETA: I was associated with OFA closely for several years. The headmaster/dean of students arrangement was current then. They also had an elementary principal. I think they may have changed to having a HS principal. So, the Junkins guy could be a principal. However, Misita is the guy in charge of the entire campus. Everyone answers to him. He answers to the board.

I’m frankly shocked so many people here have had experience with the place. Yes, it’s dead center in the territory that the LSU fan base comes from but still. It’s a preK-12 school with an enrollment of less than 750 in a back corner of Amite. 12th grade tends to be a total of 50-60 people. It’s fairly insular, if you didn’t attend I wouldn’t expect you to know much about it. There was SOME cross pollination in hanging out with folks from Amite High but even that was fairly limited.

20 years later it still has a soft spot in my heart. If I stayed in the area I’d probably would have been involved enough to eventually to be at least considered for the Board. Two of the people currently on it I personally know and one I still consider a friend.

ZP, I’m surprised you haven’t chimed in on this thread.

It might be an element of LHSAA requiring things they don’t want to commit to.


Honestly more likely there is a racial component. A LOT of schools in the now MAIS (they abandoned Mississippi in their branding to account they have schools from 5 states) were aggressively anti desegregation back in the 60s-80s

Out of 800, OFA probably has fewer than 5 AAs. Even if that isn’t the explicit intention now, it may be why they ended up there and there just wasn’t reason to reclassify.

It’s worth mentioning also that MAIS does a lot more than just athletics. There are a lot of academic competitions and the such under that umbrella.

I’m not sure where the perception of OFA trying to tout they are the best comes from. Even in their own league, Centreville takes the crown and it isn’t close.

And some of the teams meantioned are nowhere close to OFA in football. Kentwood has DOUBLE OFA’s roster and if it’s anything like it was when I was there, OFA had over 90% of all males in high school either on the JV or V teams.

I didn’t participate in athletics but I tore loose on field day.

The football coach was annoyed I never tried out for WR or CB for him. Track coach too. Then baseball coach. You get the idea of how desperate they were for talent.

Thought you were located in the Katy area?

As a principal who worked at a public school and one of these schools once said “you sacrifice educational opportunities for the comfort of the small school”

Education will be basic. Extracurriculars outside of sports will be extremely limited.

You kids get to play all sports because there’s no real competition to making a team. They need all the warm bodies they can get.

Historically Centreville is probably the best team on their schedule.

Dunno the quality now but back in my day OFA was very competitive but it was like LSU/Bama under the Bear: a very good team that couldn’t get titles because they couldn’t get past the one.