franksnbeans

Bottom line on this is that too many parents don't teach their kids anything at all from ages 0-5. Nothing!

Kids show up at school as Kindergartners and don't know basic colors, don't know their alphabet, can't count to 10, and can't speak in coherent phrases, much less sentences.

You can bash teachers all you want, but you are taking the easy way out. Yes, there are some poor teachers out there. Yes, there is a teacher shortage out there because of unbelievably disrespectful and sometimes violent behavior by students and way too many administrators who lack the guts to deal with it and far too many school boards that won't back teachers or administrators.

But at the end of the day, the single biggest issue is parents. Or guardians. Or grandma. Or whoever is raising the kids. They teach these kids nothing in their early years. That old book "Everything I Needed To Learn I Learned in Kindergarten" is not totally wrong.

Most humans learn the basic building blocks of their lifelong education by the time they are 5 or 6 years old. Their success or failure from that point on will very likely be dictated by their progress at age 6.

Until kids start learning basic life skills, respect for authority and the three "R"s at home as small kids, this isn't going to get any better. In fact, it's on a rapid downhill slide statewide and nationwide.

This started with No Child Left Behind and was designed as a long term destruction of the education of this country. Uneducated, ignorant people are easy to influence, easy to manipulate and easy to govern.

Private schools are about to explode in this country. People who care about education and safety are at the point that they realize that the public education system is a sinking ship and there is no saving it.

As the line in "Titanic" said, when the owner of the White Star Line said, "This ship can't sink!". The builder of the ship said, "It's made of iron, I assure you it can....and will." Our public education system is made of iron, and it will soon go straight to the bottom and take a lot of victims with it.

30 hours of reading in the summer isn't going to help anyone. At all. This is throwing money at a microscopic solution to a Titanic sized problem. More wasted tax payer money and people trying to make themselves look good.

No agenda whatsoever.

I happen to know a couple of LSU buddies who are J-H supporters and they are not real high on this kid beyond his obvious on field abilities.

I live in St Landry Parish

Yep.

I’m telling all of you. LOTS of red flags with this guy.

Dude was suspended for the first half of the game Week 1 for discipline issues.

Now he’s been ejected in a close game with a lot of emotion.

Dude is going to weed himself out soon.

I’m with the other poster. Kid from
Homer may be worth a look

This kid has disappeared this year as has his team.

He was all over social media last Fall and became an overnight sensation while his team ran all the way to the 2A Semis, barely losing to State Champion Amite. Jonesboro-Hodge was loaded on offense and all the J-H defense had to do was hold opponents to two or three scores a game and they won.

This kid had about 150 tackles last year and got offered by Missouri and others before LSU offered him.

This year he has disappeared. The team is O-3. They aren't scoring many points and the defense is averaging giving up more than 30 a game. You can't find any mention of him or his stats anywhere.

He didn't play in the first half of their only game against a quality opponent, General Trass (Lake Providence) because he was suspended for disciplinary reasons.

I've seen film of him last year. He runs well. Tackles better than average. Is very erratic with his reads and technique. Seems to just be flying around chasing the first thing he sees. Talented without a doubt but I don't see him as an SEC linebacker. And the fact that he has disappeared from the radar now that his team isn't scoring buckets of points every week like last year to take the pressure off of him and the defense doesn't speak well of his leadership abilities or his dominance.

Thoughts from the gallery?