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re: Why are there so many private schools in Louisiana?
Posted on 12/11/19 at 12:49 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Posted on 12/11/19 at 12:49 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Racism and Catholicism is the most succinct answer.
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Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:58 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:Yeah I guess you and I are the only two history buffs around here.
You're getting a lot of pushback on this, but prior to the sixties, most whites in NOLA went to public schools
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About 200,000 students moved to private schools between the 1960s and 1980s immediately after a series of Supreme Court decisions that began with that 1954 case. Two-thirds of those students came from six states: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina, according to the Southern Education Foundation.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:04 pm to fallguy_1978
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I do think that a lot of them exist because people don't want their kids in school with other kids from the ghetto and all of the problems that come with that.
I also highly doubt that most parents in 2019 have any issues with their kids going to school with kids of other races. It's more of a socioeconomic thing than anything else.
My friends six year old kid who goes to a very good public school came home and said so and so from class's dad is dead. He was shot.
But, yeah. People only send their kids to private school because of racism.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:15 pm to lsu13lsu
There was a kid who went to private school who was shot this one time, and he’s dead.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:21 pm to xiv
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There was a kid who went to private school who was shot this one time, and he’s dead.
So you are saying there is an equal amount of trash culture in private schools as public schools in Louisiana?
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:27 pm to Pandy Fackler
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a? by Pandy Fackler
The question you should be asking is why are there so few coed catholic schools?
The vast majority are coed
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:30 pm to double d
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There are some excellent public schools, just not in the big cities.
Ehh, probably the best academic public high schools in the state are the three big magnet schools in the three biggest cities.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:31 pm to fallguy_1978
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I also highly doubt that most parents in 2019 have any issues with their kids going to school with kids of other races. It's more of a socioeconomic thing than anything else.
I went to a town hall/public hearing on school choice/charter schools/etc once. It was held at a predominantly white public school. The overarching theme from most of the white parents was concern over inner city students coming to their school.
It didn't take much thinking to know what they meant.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:31 pm to Antonio Moss
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In Louisiana, private school graduates outperform public graduates after college, “in the real world,” by a tremendous margin.
Admittedly, I could have worded that better. By "coping skills" in not referring to academics. I'm referring to compromising and associating with people who dont share the background as you do.
I hate the term "social intelligence" so I'm trying to use a different method.
Put in simple terms: you cant always run away from a problem just because it isnt what you want.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:32 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Ehh, probably the best academic public high schools in the state are the three big magnet schools in the three biggest cities.
Yes, but they are public with an asterisk. They are not truly open to the public.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:34 pm to volod
Some of the biggest progressives I know went to Catholic School in BR and NOLA. 
They of course send their kids there now.
I think they would tell you that they have a far superior worldview than you or anyone else.
They of course send their kids there now. I think they would tell you that they have a far superior worldview than you or anyone else.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:36 pm to The Spleen
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I went to a town hall/public hearing on school choice/charter schools/etc once. It was held at a predominantly white public school. The overarching theme from most of the white parents was concern over inner city students coming to their school.
So are Republicans for or against school choice? Politically you cant have it both ways. Allowing school choice is the most conservative choice. Not allowing it is effectively giving it to government.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:38 pm to volod
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So are Republicans for or against school choice? Politically you cant have it both ways. Allowing school choice is the most conservative choice. Not allowing it is effectively giving it to government.
Locally most people are not conservative. School is a local thing.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:39 pm to lsu13lsu
quote:You’re outing yourself.
So you are saying there is an equal amount of trash culture in private schools as public schools in Louisiana?
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:41 pm to The Spleen
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The overarching theme from most of the white parents was concern over inner city students coming to their school.
Which is probably more of a socioeconomic issue than strictly race. I doubt they'd be upset if 50 black kids from Mountain Brook or Vestavia were sent to their school.
My kid goes to private school and she has classmates of all different races. The public school we are zoned for is in a nice area but is full of kids from some pretty rough neighborhoods in BR. They have fights, guns, drugs and like a 45% graduation rate. I'm not sending my daughter there
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Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:43 pm to lsu13lsu
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Yes, but they are public with an asterisk. They are not truly open to the public.
Any high school that has selective admissions isnt really as public school anymore. They are a boarding/private school that uses public funds.
Basically, I agree with you.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:43 pm to fallguy_1978
I thought Tara High and Woodlawn were good public schools in BR and Lee High was the best public school. But then again I had friends who called it Tarajuana High and Weedlawn.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:44 pm to xiv
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You’re outing yourself.
Explain?
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:47 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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I thought Tara High and Woodlawn were good public schools in BR and Lee High was the best public school. But then again I had friends who called it Tarajuana High and Weedlawn.
Woodlawn is still the best non magnet public school in the East BR school system but it's still like a C rated school.
Tara is awful now and Lee is a magnet school with a STEM concentration.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:49 pm to xiv
You're still ignoring St. Augustine. That's because it doesn't fit your narrative.
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