With so many kids in private, should system be flush with $?

You expecting elected officials to do the right thing with the money they collect from taxes? You must be new here.

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Everybody pays the same taxes

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What? False premise.

The people who send their kids to private schools pay the vast majority of taxes in the parish. The people who send their kids to EBR public school typically pay very little in taxes

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Let me introduce you to the proposed utopia of st George. Public schools that you can send your kids to and feel like you can actually see the results of your tax dollars.


Voted on and approved by the people. The most American and democratic thing.


Then the left has tried to shut it down.

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how much of an utter failure public education

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Can’t be too bad. I graduated from public school and received a six figure free ride to Loyola and Tulane.

One would assume that the public schools are getting more money with less students. But in fact, public schools receive funding according to the number of students that are enrolled in the system on October 1st. The reason most private schools perform better is because of parent involvement. Those parents give a frick and put their children in a better environment. I teach in the public schools and put my all of my kids in private or charter schools.

Not from LA, but in most states the legislature sends what's called an FTE unit (a block of funds) for a set number of students (usually lower elementary and higher for secondary). For example, 24 kids = 1 FTE unit for elementary schools; 30 kids = 1 FTE unit for secondary schools. That money, plus any ad valorem millage/sales tax percentage collected locally, pays for the school, but the FTE unit usually comprises the majority portion of the funding. That's why the schools used to have a shitfit about everyone being there during the first six weeks or so of school: those attendance numbers are what the state was using to determine funding.

What that means is that when people send their kids to private schools the state keeps the money that they would have allocated for their instruction. In a perfect world the legislature would either lower the tax rate or increase the FTE funding to adjust for that, but like the saying goes, no man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

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The reason most private schools perform better is because of parent involvement. Those parents give a frick and put their children in a better environment. I teach in the public schools and put my all of my kids in private or charter schools.

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And the parents who have the money to put their kids in private school have more money, as a general rule, because they have more going on between the ears than other folks. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. That's a broad generality, mind you. I taught millionaire's kids who were blithering idiots and coal miners' kids who were sharp as a tack, but the general outline of the description holds.

Jefferson Parish until about 5-6 years ago had around 33% of their kids in private schools. It sure did seem like that would help with the funding situation per pupil, but I see some folks have shared some info in the thread that I didn't know about in regards to how funding works.

The parental involvement is still the most important factor in kids doing well in school.