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re: St. George School System
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:20 pm to longtooth
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:20 pm to longtooth
You're right in general. It takes a lot of work across a lot of people to fight the negative changes, and once an area is already in the state that BR and even St. George are in, fighting to reverse damage is nearly impossible. We moved away from there to a damn nice area, and it's a bit of work just to fight to keep it that way.
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Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:25 pm to Tigersonfire
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Draws boundaries specifically around Black and Spanish areas then thinks they will win lawsuit in the judicial system. This must be the same people that thinks Airline Hwy will stop crime and the cancer that is BR. St George will never be a city. Covid slowed the annexing down but this year it will pick back up. ST George will be left with ONeal lane MAYBE and just because of Oschners and their hate they have for the cities three hospitals. And also MAYBE bluebonnet around Burbank…..MAYBE. What all you St George backers didn’t think of is the real old power money is all located right it the middle of your “city” and they will support what got them there and keeps them there. City of BR. St Gorge is DOA from multiple angles. Why do you think everything has been hush hush from the ST G camp?? They can still suck in money from the “cause” knowing it was never even close to becoming reality.
I’m extremely close to the St George incorporation and you are very misinformed. You shouldn’t pretend to know things you know nothing about in order to fool yourself into thinking you’re right.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:32 pm to Finch
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I’m extremely close to the St George incorporation and you are very misinformed.
Well, inform us then. Not many obvious signs things are moving. Hell, the last news update on the site is from Summer 2021
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:38 pm to CorkRockingham
My favorite was the ole “no new taxes” from leftist boomers. Meanwhile, while the incorporation is being held up in court, taxes went up like a mofo. The gaslighting is mind bending.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:40 pm to longtooth
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But it’s taking too long.
If St. George had succeeded the first time, there's a decent chance I'd still be in BR, but it didn't. And then the second time around I was in no-man's land between BR city limits and St. George limits.
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I just don’t understand how people are so willing to just abandon the historically prime land, neighborhoods, etc. to go and live a single entrance, cookie-cutter life in a former cow pasture.
Schools. Period. I doubt you see too many single people out there, it's people with kids or people that want to have kids. The cost of living in BR is absurdly high compared to what you get, and then you have to navigate magnet programs if you're lucky or pay for private school.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:45 pm to Finch
St. George shot itself in the foot when they circled a few poor neighborhoods/apartments and excluded them, creating little islands. It's a bad look.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:46 pm to BeepNode
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St. George shot itself in the foot when they circled a few poor neighborhoods/apartments and excluded them, creating little islands. It's a bad look.
Those are the pockets that caused it to fail the first time around, so damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:58 pm to BeepNode
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St. George shot itself in the foot when they circled a few poor neighborhoods/apartments and excluded them, creating little islands. It's a bad look.
You mean the ones that didn't respond or had low response rates to the first petition? If those areas are so vital, why hasn't Baton Rouge scooped them up and annexed them like they have illegally done so with revenue generating properties within the St. George footprint.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 2:35 pm to LSUBoo
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Those are the pockets that caused it to fail the first time around,
So just a few people voting no causes the whole thing not to pass? That's not very solid footing you're standing on.
That's going to open you up to all kinds of lawsuits. It's not like you excluded wealthy people that voted no.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 2:37 pm to calcotron
The city of Central had boundaries that went along the Comite river. The school district magically had spots that jumped over the river to pick up properties owned by the Brownings.
Now they're about to build low income housing in one of those spots along Hooper. It's not part of Central but it is in the Central school district.
Seriously, frick all these good ol boys.
Now they're about to build low income housing in one of those spots along Hooper. It's not part of Central but it is in the Central school district.
Seriously, frick all these good ol boys.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 2:54 pm to CorkRockingham
Just move to Texas, Florida, or Wyoming like everyone else is doing.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:31 pm to longtooth
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The problems you see in BR are just going to spread outward to the “safe” places next. And it doesn’t take much. You saw it happen in Baker and Zachary is next. Then on to Prairieville and Denham which may already be happening with apartments being built. Perhaps at that point we may see some reverse migration back into the urban core.
This has been happening since 2000.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:32 pm to Finch
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You shouldn’t pretend to know things you know nothing about in order to fool yourself into thinking you’re right.
Tell me what I’m wrong about then. Don’t make a general statement and call me a fool. Back it up. Here I’ll make a list
1. Boundaries drawn to keep minority areas out.
2. Annexing started before Covid. Slowed way down last year and now will pick back up. You lose Seigen (why womans and H&E was so important). Bluebonnet comes next through General and mall tie ins.
3. Airline won’t stop the crime and spread of BR downfall.
4. St G camp knows it’s a dying cause. Hence the quietness.
I’ll wait for you to prove I’m a “fool”. When you can’t go look in the mirror.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:37 pm to LSUBoo
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Schools. Period. I doubt you see too many single people out there, it's people with kids or people that want to have kids. The cost of living in BR is absurdly high compared to what you get, and then you have to navigate magnet programs if you're lucky or pay for private school
Yes, but the schools are bad BECAUSE people left, the people who made them good. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. The Ascension schools are not actually doing anything better, they just have a much higher percentage of families who care and participate, which makes everything run better. The private school exodus is basically a bunch of folks deciding to spend the cash versus put in the time it takes to make public schools good again. And it will never be reversed - none of you with kids in private school can clearly list what has to happen for you to put your kids back in neighborhood schools. You are waiting for someone else to fix it, and no one ever will.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:45 pm to CorkRockingham
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St. George School System
It's going to be a "passthrough" school system in which the dollars just pass through to the parents so that they can spend said money no tuition as they see fit.
It's going to be the most conservative approach to schooling in the country and will become the model for all conservative parishes/counties in the country.
Note: I'm just dreaming. But, it's time to make big leaps forward.
This post was edited on 1/19/22 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 1/19/22 at 4:22 pm to calcotron
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none of you with kids in private school can clearly list what has to happen for you to put your kids back in neighborhood schools
The teachers and the curriculum SUCK.
Some bimbo goes to a Louisiana college for 4 years with TOPS bc she miraculously got a 20 on her ACT, she has no skills or desire - so she becomes a teacher - not all teachers but enough have no vocation and it comes out through the kids’ educations
I don’t want lgbtq friendly stories read to my first grader - she should be playing with toys and coloring not worrying about gender/identification issues.
FTR - the private schools aren’t much better with the air head teachers or the moms who work so they don’t have to pay tuition and have never read a book
This post was edited on 1/19/22 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 1/19/22 at 4:27 pm to longtooth
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At some point you have to stop retreating, turn and stand your ground. Get on boards, go to meetings, get more involved in local elections and zoning issues, etc.
Good luck with that in this microwave, infantile society we live in these days.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 4:56 pm to LSUBoo
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St. George the Independent School District is a whole different ballgame and is many more years and votes and lawsuits away from happening, if it ever does.
And the boundaries of St. George the city and St. George the ISD don't necessarily have to be contiguous either.
The ISD has already been voted on and had boundaries created. It lacks the taxing authority to proceed. It was at that point in the process the founders of the ISD were told to "go form a city first".
Posted on 1/19/22 at 7:07 pm to dragginass
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It was at that point in the process the founders of the ISD were told to "go form a city first".
This is propaganda and yet you keep repeating it? Why?
The only person that told you that was Sharon Weston Broome. If the St. George founders gets their legal advice from Sharon Weston Broome then you're all fricked.
No child alive today will ever see St. George ISD.
This post was edited on 1/19/22 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 1/19/22 at 7:20 pm to GreenRockTiger
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The teachers and the curriculum SUCK.
Some bimbo goes to a Louisiana college for 4 years with TOPS bc she miraculously got a 20 on her ACT, she has no skills or desire - so she becomes a teacher - not all teachers but enough have no vocation and it comes out through the kids’ educations
I don’t want lgbtq friendly stories read to my first grader - she should be playing with toys and coloring not worrying about gender/identification issues.
FTR - the private schools aren’t much better with the air head teachers or the moms who work so they don’t have to pay tuition and have never read a book
Private school teachers suck at the same rate. They are usually paid less and a lot of them are unqualified, they just do it to get their kids into the school.
The curriculum in LA is garbage for sure, but it's the same across the state. It's the good kids/families that bring up scores, don't give teachers as much extra crap to deal with, and parents getting involved in the classroom and extracurriculars makes all the difference.
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