You're overestimating how many truly rich people are sending their kids to provide school. We have a few families in our St. George neighborhood that chose private school because they didn't get in the magnet programs. Both parents work, and they've chosen to work longer before retirement to fund private school. Rich people aren't worried about working longer to send their kids to private school.

Granted, it's very hard to tell if they'd make the switch if St. George got its school district, but there's other reasons people don't live in LP and AP; commute being a big one.

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re: What’s next for St George?

Posted by SparkyWilson on 5/19/26 at 8:53 am to BugAC

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So, you are admitting that BR schools suck. Thanks. That's why we will have our own school district one day. I send my kids to private school to get a quality education. I'm not going to engage in some social experiment to appease the BR liberals so they can justify wasting more of my tax dollars.

Did you see the budget numbers I posted? The East Baton Rouge School District has $823 million on the books for 2026. That's $21k per student, and they can't do better? Mind boggling.

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Posted by SparkyWilson on 5/18/26 at 8:31 pm to teke184

Ah. Good to know my children’s education is in their capable hands.

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Posted by SparkyWilson on 5/18/26 at 8:17 pm to doubleb

No problem. The whole situation got me curious especially seeing posts on WBRZ Facebook about how St. George leaving will bankrupt the school system. St. George would take about 5500 students with them. EBRPSS has $21k per student on their budget of $823 million. My guess is St. George could do it for $15k per student (my home town on the MSGC does it for about that much for a top flight district), and I think that’s generous. That’s $82.5 million. How in the heck would that bankrupt them if St. George takes 13% of the students on 10% of the budget? The more I look at it the more I’m convinced EBRPSS doesn’t have a funding problem. Zero excuse for not having something better for $21k per student.

Put it another way. If they were to lose 5500 kids at $21k per. EBRPSS would down to $707.5 million for 36000 kids or $19k per kid by the 2026 numbers. The national average is $17,600. I think they could figure it out.

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re: Higher education bubble is bursting ...

Posted by SparkyWilson on 5/18/26 at 4:59 pm to Mo Jeaux

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There’s some for some for those, but you can’t boil education down to purely economic demand.

It needs to be a major part of the equation especially since loans are typically involved. All of those majors listed have low job placement rates.

Yeah, they get educated, but that's not much consolation when they can't find well-paying jobs relative to the cost and debt incurred.

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re: What’s next for St George?

Posted by SparkyWilson on 5/18/26 at 3:24 pm to doubleb

For fiscal year 2026:

Fed: $92.3 million
State: $204.1 million
Local: $526.7 million
Total: $823.1 million

You have to really get into their budget documentation to see how that all breaks down though. If you look at just their general fund:

Fed: $4.6 million
State: $192.3 million
Local: $387.2 million
Total: $584.1 million

MFP funding: $184.5 million

The $239 million difference between the total budget and the general fund appears to be from special funding sources.

LINK

Link above will point you do the budget document; I'm getting into myself just to see what I can make of it.

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