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ElShugh84
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Louisiana |
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| Number of Posts: | 103 |
| Registered on: | 9/11/2019 |
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re: Austrailia's "Gold Standard" of gun control laws is a failure. Go Figure!
Posted by ElShugh84 on 12/15/25 at 10:46 am to Crappieman
Not being political just putting the real data out.
Since Port Arthur, until yesterday, there were 0 mass shootings in Australia. Gun related deaths had also continually gone down falling from 2.9 per 100,000 people in 1996 to approximately 0.9 per 100,000 in 2016 and 0.88 per 100,000 in 2018. ( Just an FYI Louisiana in 2023 had over 28 per 100,000)
Compare that to the US where just since 2015 to 2022 there was an average of 463 mass shootings per year (mass shooting defined as 4 or more deaths).
I don't think anyone is saying gun laws of any degree will create 0 gun related deaths but when you use Australia and the US as two case studies there are obvious conclusions to be drawn.
Since Port Arthur, until yesterday, there were 0 mass shootings in Australia. Gun related deaths had also continually gone down falling from 2.9 per 100,000 people in 1996 to approximately 0.9 per 100,000 in 2016 and 0.88 per 100,000 in 2018. ( Just an FYI Louisiana in 2023 had over 28 per 100,000)
Compare that to the US where just since 2015 to 2022 there was an average of 463 mass shootings per year (mass shooting defined as 4 or more deaths).
I don't think anyone is saying gun laws of any degree will create 0 gun related deaths but when you use Australia and the US as two case studies there are obvious conclusions to be drawn.
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Can we please retire the term “4-d chess”?
More melt to come
Posted by ElShugh84 on 11/30/25 at 6:08 pm
Understandably, Ole Miss is melting hard but don’t yall think this is only the beginning? As soon as they are out of the playoffs there’s gotta be some players who follow and it will get even nastier.
re: Chill baws!
Posted by ElShugh84 on 11/21/25 at 9:22 am to LSUcajun77
Not to worry gentlemen. I just had breakfast with Todd Graves and Shaq they told me Lane will be on campus by 1:15 pm today.
re: Watch analogy
Posted by ElShugh84 on 11/20/25 at 1:15 pm to DivotBreath
Crap, i don't wear a watch not sure what that means.
re: Couple lies about income to get taxpayer funded daycare
Posted by ElShugh84 on 11/3/25 at 1:43 pm to StringedInstruments
I had a student who's father was a very prominent preacher of a large church. Her family was obviously well off as evidence by the job but also their two high end brand new Mercedes. Nonetheless, the student filled out free/reduced lunch forms every year they were in my homeroom class.
re: Why would Kiffin come here?
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/27/25 at 12:57 pm to Tiger Ugly
I hope he comes for a lot of reasons but the biggest would be, because it will give renewed hatred to the rivalry.
re: Public School Funding Question
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/23/25 at 10:19 am to Harry Caray
Funding is not the problem. More funding helps, of course, but you can spend an awful lot of money on the problem without fixing it. You have a lot of educational leaders that don't necessarily know/understand how to fix learning gaps in a systemic way. It's a very specific set of skills that are not fully understood. Policy and leadership can 1000% fix learning gaps but no every principal, district leader, or superintendent knows how to do this.
Brumley at the state luckily does but only so much can happen from state leadership. So much is on the District and school leader to actually effect change and so much of that has nothing to do with money.
Brumley at the state luckily does but only so much can happen from state leadership. So much is on the District and school leader to actually effect change and so much of that has nothing to do with money.
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EBR has been in a constant state of decline yet continue asking for more money.
EBR is probably the worst large system in the state. Their dysfunction is not a statewide phenomenon.
re: Public School Funding Question
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/22/25 at 11:53 am to UptownJoeBrown
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My mother was a public school teacher in the early 70s. They were animals then and animals now. Nothing has changed for the better in 50+ years and it won’t get better in the next 50 years. The culture is crap and the parents don’t care.
I actually consider it child abuse to send your kid to a public school in BR not withstanding a couple of the magnet schools and even then those are not what they used to be.
Tighten your belt and send your kids to private school if you care even just a little bit about their future. You don’t need to eat out as much or have season LSU tickets. You will survive.
Who is "they?" Pretty broad strokes there bud.
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So where does the money go?
Currently, one third of my property taxes goes to the EBRPSS but we’re in private school.
Ask the legislature. Public schools have over 40,000 less students in Louisiana since 2017. I'm assuming the over 200 million that represents went somewhere else. Perhaps it went to the one time stipends of 2000/1000 that the legislature has been giving to districts or the 30 million in high dosage tutoring and/or the differentiated compensation plan added to the MFP.
The only way this state gets better is to pull people out of poverty, most tried and true way to do that is through education and I would hope even private school parents would see that improving public school outcomes helps everyone.
re: Public School Funding Question
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/21/25 at 1:46 pm to TigerintheNO
A good example of the lack of ability to respond to student reductions is the following. I have a school that is prek-6, so 8 grade levels. I had 320 kids spread evenly between each grade level so 2 classes per grade level each class with 20 kids a piece. You couldn't cant improve the efficiency here b/c your only alternative (general speaking) is to create one class of 40 which isn't practical or legal in the state.
So the next year you lose 40 kids and they are all evenly spread between those same grade levels. You just lost around a quarter of a million in funding (depending on the state portion for that district) and you have no ability to respond...at least at that school.
So the next year you lose 40 kids and they are all evenly spread between those same grade levels. You just lost around a quarter of a million in funding (depending on the state portion for that district) and you have no ability to respond...at least at that school.
re: Public School Funding Question
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/21/25 at 1:22 pm to justinking042
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I live in EBR parish. I have two kids in Catholic school, but I am still paying EBR property taxes for the public school system. For the record, I am not complaining about funding public schools. Every kid deserves the opportunity to receive a decent education. The part I'm hung up on is how that funding is dispersed. If more and more kids are opting the private or Catholic school route yet still paying EBR school property taxes, wouldn't that mean the school district has more money per student since they are receiving the same amount of funding but with less kids to educate? I'd imagine there is some state or federal funding tied to student count, but I'm really not sure how much of that factors into total school funding.
It's true and not true at the same time. Let me explain:
Schools receive a per pupil alotment through the Minimum Foundation Program (MFP). So as students exit the system there are less funds. To your point though with less students the district should be able to respond to the lesser number of students and reconstitute itself so that it reflects the smaller number of students. Unfortunately, while this sounds logical/rational you have to remember that the district is controlled by the board, albeit run by the Superintendent. I spoke recently to an former EBR central office employee who stated that for many of the past few years the district has lost 1200 students a year. That's equal to a 5A high school. THere's simply no way that a district can reconstitute itself that quickly to keep up with that and boards are notorious for not closing schools because the public hates it. So, yes it should be cheaper to educate less kids but boards are slow to reduce costs...
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I 100% agree with you about kids being able to learn. I have some caveats. Show me a middle class or upper middle class school with lots of parental involvement and I’d bet that’s a thriving school. It’s not magic. A struggling community has struggling schools and a thriving community has thriving schools. This is on average. Are there exceptions? Maybe, but for the most part the schools follow these patterns. It’s why people want to live in nice communities and they have good schools in those areas. They aren’t looking for good schools in poor poverty stricken struggling areas with tons of social problems.
Completely agree but there’s lots of exceptions. There’s a meta analysis by John Hattie that basically shows you all the things that help and hurt kids. Will socioeconomics and home life have a big impact they are able to be overcome with the right approaches.
There’s also a famous study that I want to say is the 90/90/90 study. Examples of schools with 90% poverty, 90% minority but achieve higher than 90% of schools.
No one is talking about throwing more money at the problem. It’s money spent in the right ways. You can spend 20k per kid and get no return or you can spend half of that and get legit outcomes.
re: Boston Globe article on Louisiana compared to New England schools
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/1/25 at 6:38 pm to TeddyPadillac
ACT scores are skewed. For instance Louisiana has a low avg but up until this year all students were required to take it. Whereas, places like the northeast it’s optional so typically only your higher achievers take it.
re: Boston Globe article on Louisiana compared to New England schools
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/1/25 at 6:16 pm to TeddyPadillac
That’s the problem, you think your belief means something, when it means absolutely nothing. A shame that you have no ability to distinguish reliable sources from your own inane thoughts.
Just because someone is poor or black doesn’t mean they can’t learn. Given the right resources and supports all students can learn…even a moron like you.
Just because someone is poor or black doesn’t mean they can’t learn. Given the right resources and supports all students can learn…even a moron like you.
re: Boston Globe article on Louisiana compared to New England schools
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/1/25 at 4:22 pm to TeddyPadillac
I provided the summary because I assumed that no one subscribes to the Globe. The rest of your talking points show that you just don't listen to anything in the news because if you did, you would know that Louisiana and Mississippi have been on a long trajectory to getting out of 49th/50th. It's not voodoo with the scores or changing metrics it's a lot of change in policy and hard work on school's part.
Boston Globe article on Louisiana compared to New England schools
Posted by ElShugh84 on 10/1/25 at 4:02 pm
Globe article
summary for those who don't subscribe to the Boston Globe:
New England, once a national leader in education, has seen steep academic declines in early literacy, while Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have made major gains by adopting phonics-based curricula, teacher training, and accountability systems. Natchitoches Parish is highlighted as a success story—under Superintendent Grant Eloi, the district implemented the TAP System and moved from near the bottom to above the national average in reading and math, despite high poverty rates.
summary for those who don't subscribe to the Boston Globe:
New England, once a national leader in education, has seen steep academic declines in early literacy, while Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have made major gains by adopting phonics-based curricula, teacher training, and accountability systems. Natchitoches Parish is highlighted as a success story—under Superintendent Grant Eloi, the district implemented the TAP System and moved from near the bottom to above the national average in reading and math, despite high poverty rates.
re: About to turn 40. Haven't had sex in 10 years. AMA.
Posted by ElShugh84 on 9/24/25 at 11:44 am to LemmyLives
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That's awful. I tell my GF in the general age range about these threads, and she looks at me like all of you are dumb as a box of rocks.
If I tried to get away with less than 6x a week, she would want to go to counseling to fix it. It's currently at 4-5x a day four times a week.
That would of been cool at 15...now that sounds like a chore.
re: About to turn 40. Haven't had sex in 10 years. AMA.
Posted by ElShugh84 on 9/24/25 at 11:22 am to White Bear
All of these posts make me feel like me and my wife are the weird ones. Early 40's and 2-3 times a week has been the norm for a long time.
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