OT: Bye Bye Common Core...

[CajunT]

Perfectly said. We love to vote no on everything concerning school board, education costs and school infrastructure improvement, but every time I turn on conservetive radio in Lafayette, someone is _____ing about the low performances of Lafayette parish schools... Insanity.

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.

[Cajun Monkee]

Hell, my brother teaches auto mechanics in high school. Most of them are there because of their “indifference”, that is, so the government check keeps coming to the house. They tell him straight up, you can’t flunk us all or they’ll give you a bad evaluation. Tail wagging the dog.

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

[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.