re: Why are there so many private schools in Louisiana?

Black folk

I wish i went to private school just for the girls

Because public schools are largely day care centers

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Parents often are scared that exposure to too many blacks can break a kid.

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Nothing to do with race and everything to do about placing your child in the best situation to get the best education.

I went to public school in mandeville then Mississippi. Big difference! I liked public school.

Because Louisiana was late to the party with public education so the Catholics stepped in. This Catholic schools have been around for a century.

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public schools just that bad down there? Or is there another reason??

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Shiny hook attempt noted.

Your “norm” in your comparison is Arkansas.

There’s absolutely nothing normal about Arkansas.

Your thesis question is terminally flawed.

A more valid question would be “Why aren’t there more private schools in Arkansas?”

Or larger-scale and more to the root of the issue: “Why is there an Arkansas?”

Even working class people in south Louisiana will pay tuition for Catholic schools - many of which have been around for 100+ years. People will find a way to send that tuition check. At this point it these institutions are almost embedded into south Louisiana’s cultural identity.

It’s a combination of a lot of Catholics in wanting to send their kids to a Catholic school (often the same one their parents/grandparents went)....and terrible public schools that consistently fail regardless of how much tax dollars are shoveled into them.

Public schools in Louisiana are horrible. Even the best districts are barely competitive with a decent suburban district in a typical midwestern city.

I think socioeconomics is a lot of it. Less about race and more about what type of people there kids are around on a daily basis. They can be black but they’ve gotta be affluent blacks who speak proper. They don’t want there kids hanging out with hood rats regardless of their race

It’s a statistics and solutions issue.

In a private school, you may have a 5-10% dysfunctional student rate that can serious disrupt school culture.

In public schools, that rate may be 15-20%.

The difference is private schools have the ability to address the dysfunctional student properly or remove him from the school. Publics really can’t do that because macro management of public schools is run by imbeciles and law makers.

Most public school kids are just fine. They may not have the tools and resources that a private school has, but they aren’t bad kids or culture killers.

The issue is the margins and the public systems’ impotence in their ability to address it.