re: Who here is against St George?

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but unless you have some data stating legacy costs are in excess of 20.5million

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That's the point, moron, no one has even attempted to estimate the legacy costs. Your crooked politician friends organizing SG don't want you to know how much it would cost.

But $20.5 million is less than 3% of one year's total EBR budget and the population of St George is approximately 25% of the population of EBR.

The Green Light program alone has spent almost $400 million in the SG area over the past 5 years. I sure as hell don't want SG walking away with those improvements and not get some of my money back. Then there were 3 new schools built over the last 4 years, but those school legacy costs are separate from the general governmental costs.

I'd say a good figure to start with for negotiating general governmental legacy costs would be $300-$350 million payable in three equal annual installments, please.

Zachary did not suffer from extensive busing issues b/c of their location in the parish. So the 'neighborhood schools' were intact - you know - so that made it much easier for parents, and the entire community to have been involved even before they formed their own school system.

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Zachary did not suffer from extensive busing issues b/c of their location in the parish. So the 'neighborhood schools' were intact - you know - so that made it much easier for parents, and the entire community to have been involved even before they formed their own school system

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Ok, not entirely true at all, but what does that have to do with St. George schools now?

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$250,000 for economic development

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That is probably split 50-50 between Bodi White and Bill Rainey.

whatever the legacy costs are as of a certain date, we are only due to pay a share of them. Assuming your screwed up revenue math was correct, St.George would onlyneed tto pay 10-25% of that based on revenue contribution, moron.

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It's sad, all this effort spent on establishing a new city could have been spent directly on influencing the School Board and its leadership in a positive manner.

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This. Since the St George effort started I've made it a point to see how many SG organizer's speak at school board public hearings.

It's been easy to keep track of..............ZERO.

The system failed because of the busing. Those who didn't want their kid bused sent them to private school in their neighborhood.

The federal regulations forcing busing are over. Why don't these people work together?

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The system failed because of the busing. Those who didn't want their kid bused sent them to private school in their neighborhood. The federal regulations forcing busing are over. Why don't these people work together

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Too much effort to take an active role in the school. They are too lazy to participate in any school activities outside of the occasional parent teacher meeting.

Above poster missed the point of my Zachary post

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You're the one that said the St. George parents should get involved with their children's school - like the Zachary parents - the Zachary parents were not faced with the challenge of being involved in a school located across town from where they live. They were lucky they still had their neighborhood schools

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What does that have to do with now?

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I believe the EBR School Board and its leadership have had over 30 years to improve the system.

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For over 40 years of the last 50 years, the EBR school board has not been in charge of the school system. Your federal government called the shots.

Only since the start of the 2009 school year has the EBR school board been able to act on salvaging the schools from the disaster of the Fed court's destruction of the system.