OT: Bye Bye Common Core...

[ZoomZoom]

What parish is this? It doesn’t happen in Lafayette Parish.

Sent u a PM. If you have trouble reading it, just let me know, I’ll call u tomorrow.

Can assure u it hapoens nation wide.

[ZoomZoom]

This is an entirely different conversation, could it be that every time a tax is put on the ballot and passed in the past, the money was used for other purposes than the proposed tax initiative? The last school tax proposed would have allowed the School Board to allocate those funds for other needs, but we were not told this and they denied it until the state attorney general made a ruling on it. They lied from the beginning and played on people's emotions.

T is right.

School board years back, tax solely for teacher raises. Passes, next thing you know, janitors, central office and the ever powerful bus drivers all got one too. Bus drivers whom own their own bus, well, how people get to the polls to vote.

Joey Durel got the airport funded with a specific tax with amount and an end date. It passed, collected, stopped and project is happening.

Last school board tax was one for buildings but could renewed. Kiss of death, people aren’t willing to basically hand them a blank check anymore.

[Cajun Monkee]

Sent u a PM. If you have trouble reading it, just let me know, I’ll call u tomorrow.

Can assure u it hapoens nation wide.

No you can’t because students don’t evaluate teachers in Lafayette Parish.

[axg8750]

Please add some type of budget management course to high school curriculum.

[ZoomZoom]

No you can’t because students don’t evaluate teachers in Lafayette Parish.

Referring to the students

[CajunRebel]

Please add some type of budget management course to high school curriculum.

Whaaat? Why would kids need that? Better make them take four years of history instead. That history is totally going to pay off down the road.

[cajunhawk]

I think it's true when you look at the public schools with the highest ratings. They have just as much parent participation as the best private schools. But those numbers are not close when it comes to many of the public schools with failing evaluations. Parental participation is not close when it comes to at risk children and in the learning environments they have to attend.

Daughter's at Woodvale...the best public elementary school in the city. Parent participation is brutally low. I went to elementary school at JW Faulk until 2nd grade, and St Genevieve from 3rd on. Being there, parent participation wasn't much better. You still had kids completely ignored by their parents, they would just buy them stuff to shut them up. They still got bad grades, barely passed. I will admit the parent participation was better at the private school, but not enough to warrant dropping college tuition on elementary education.

[CajunT]

Daughter's at Woodvale...the best public elementary school in the city. Parent participation is brutally low. I went to elementary school at JW Faulk until 2nd grade, and St Genevieve from 3rd on. Being there, parent participation wasn't much better. You still had kids completely ignored by their parents, they would just buy them stuff to shut them up. They still got bad grades, barely passed. I will admit the parent participation was better at the private school, but not enough to warrant dropping college tuition on elementary education.

My experience has been just the opposite. All of my children started school at St. Genevieve, we always had great parental participation. I moved my youngest to Ernest Gallet, which has more resources to deal with disabled children. It's a great school and has great parental participation.

I also started school at JW Faulk and was rezoned to Vermilion Elementary, which was a new school at the time. From Vermilion to La Rosen Elementary and then to NP Moss. Attend Paul Breaux in Middle School and then to Northside. I've never attended private school. I've experienced both private and public schools, both have good teachers. The main difference is the discipline in the classroom. And that is the bottom line.

For my two oldest, spending the money on private school was the best invest I could have made considering the school zones back then and the over crowding. My oldest graduated from Teurlings and my second wanted to attend Comeaux HS with her friends in the neighborhood. The difference the way both were advised and prepared for college was night & day.

[cajunhawk]

My experience has been just the opposite. All of my children started school at St. Genevieve, we always had great parental participation. I moved my youngest to Ernest Gallet, which has more resources to deal with disabled children. It's a great school and has great parental participation.

I also started school at JW Faulk and was rezoned to Vermilion Elementary, which was a new school at the time. From Vermilion to La Rosen Elementary and then to NP Moss. Attend Paul Breaux in Middle School and then to Northside. I've never attended private school. I've experienced both private and public schools, both have good teachers. The main difference is the discipline in the classroom. And that is the bottom line.

For my two oldest, spending the money on private school was the best invest I could have made considering the school zones back then and the over crowding. My oldest graduated from Teurlings and my second wanted to attend Comeaux HS with her friends in the neighborhood. The difference the way both were advised and prepared for college was night & day.

It's the same thing I said about comparing football recruits to baseball recruits. You are going to get students in a better situation period at private schools...you would expect them to have less discipline issues. Then size difference between Public and Private. TCH has an enrollment of 782 for 17-18...Comeaux 1,934. Of course college prep is going to be watered down when you have to nearly triple enrollment, also more kids, more discipline issues.

My point still is...unless you are sending your child to a private school out of NECESSITY...the money is not worth it. I could send my child to Fatima, but then I would be spending out of the nose for something I could get for living in the Woodvale District.

[CajunJack55]

Meanwhile in Abbeville....

http://973thedawg.com/vermilion-pari...ident-resigns/

[cajunhawk]

Meanwhile in Abbeville....

http://973thedawg.com/vermilion-pari...ident-resigns/

Think about Black Lives Matter reading just a headline on this...school teacher named Deyshia gets roughed up by a City Marshall with a prior record of excessive force...I'm sure they had their bags packed and were ready to go. Womp womp.

[Duggie35]

It's the same thing I said about comparing football recruits to baseball recruits. You are going to get students in a better situation period at private schools...you would expect them to have less discipline issues.

Could it be that the reason they are in a better situation is because of parental involvement at home as well as at school? IMHO, education starts at home. If education is expected and "emphasized" at home through words AND actions by the parents, chances are the student will live up to those expectations. If education is not emphasized at home, I would think only kids that are highly self motivated on their own would succeed consistently in the class room.