The Jerry Baldwin Saga: 1998-2020

[Hammer58]

$8500 per year per student which is $32 below the max reimbursement limit set by the state for Lincoln Parish.

This appears to have the makings of a very profitable venture - for a few years - then the parents, students, state may start to figure out that the quality of education is not what they envisioned.

So if he already had around 150 students and is going to take in around 350 additional students for a total of 500 students at a new tuition rate of $8500 per year that adds up to a cool $4.25 million per year! And almost $3 million of that will come from the taxpayers of this state. And I'm sure the Rev is looking into any and all federal grants that might be available for his taking as well. Who says crime doesn't pay?!

[Turbine]

How is a voucher directly to a school any different than what exists already? Doesn't it in some way dictate where a kid goes to school?

I thought a voucher let the parents decide, and if they saw "no teacher, no books, no building" it would be a pretty easy non-choice. . . seems to me.

I guess I haven't been paying attention.

[CajunRebel]

So if he already had around 150 students and is going to take in around 350 additional students for a total of 500 students at a new tuition rate of $8500 per year that adds up to a cool $4.25 million per year! And almost $3 million of that will come from the taxpayers of this state. And I'm sure the Rev is looking into any and all federal grants that might be available for his taking as well. Who says crime doesn't pay?!

Something tells me this new tuition rate will somehow be "discounted" to last year's rate through "scholarships" and other loopholes.

[CajunT]

Another example of what can happen when the public system fails us so miserably. They were given so much money, so much time, so much freedom... they told everybody they would take care of it, they were intellectuals and knew what to do... and the public school system not only sucks, it just keeps adding all of these pseudo-intellectuals and sucking worse. Look what you've done public school system "intellectuals". You taste so bad, a pile of excrement can replace you. It's going to suck, but the results will likely improve. That's just how bad you suck. And you don't even know it.

Bingo! For all those complaining about this, we have had the alternative now for 40 years at a current cost of $12,000 per student. But hey, why don't we just keep dumping millions into a falling system and ignore the results? The initial idea of taking on the teachers unions was sound, after that it evolved into something that could be just as bad.

[CajunT]

There are scammers in everything. If Toothpick is as much of a scammer as our public school officials have been, we the taxpayers are hopefully going to put the pinch on him much quicker than we did the public school officials.

Sadly he is no more of a scammer then the current system.

[CajunRebel]

Another example of what can happen when the public system fails us so miserably. They were given so much money, so much time, so much freedom... they told everybody they would take care of it, they were intellectuals and knew what to do... and the public school system not only sucks, it just keeps adding all of these pseudo-intellectuals and sucking worse. Look what you've done public school system "intellectuals". You taste so bad, a pile of excrement can replace you. It's going to suck, but the results will likely improve. That's just how bad you suck. And you don't even know it.

Can you please give me the names of some of these "intellectuals" that you hate so much and can you explain to me exactly what these "intellectuals" did to destroy the public school system. I eagerly await your response.

[CajunT]

Can you please give me the names of some of these "intellectuals" that you hate so much and can you explain to me exactly what these "intellectuals" did to destroy the public school system. I eagerly await your response.

Would that be the same public system you graduated from?

[CajunRebel]

Why do you ask?

[Just1More]

Can you please give me the names of some of these "intellectuals" that you hate so much and can you explain to me exactly what these "intellectuals" did to destroy the public school system. I eagerly await your response.

First, I don't "hate" anybody. I'm severely disappointed in the current shape of our school system and those running it that have fought ideas for improvement because they weren't invented by them and required internal scrutiny as opposed to external blame.

Now, you get to work on a list of Louisiana public school system officials over the past 30 years that you wish to exclude from the responsibility of the regression of the Louisiana school system and I promise you your list will be shorter. If you doubt the self-professed intellectualism of these people, you don't know many. And no, I'm not calling out individuals by name on this forum.

If in this post you're attempting to tell me that the Louisiana public school system does not "suck"... please provide me with an essay, single spaced, that defends the system and the current product. Start off by telling us who's been running the Louisiana school system. Then tell us how well it's functioning... and please don't do what they do... point to the gifted children that essentially learn on their own... only to help prop up the numbers. You may be able, by virture of this very simple connecting of the dots, come to the same conclusion as most of us.

As for explaining "what" was done by the "intellectuals" that contributed to the destruction... I've already posted some of those in an earlier post. Go read it. You are at a substantial disadvantage if you believe our public schools are doing just fine. Oh, don't tell me... you believe they just need more money and "they" will "fix things"... again... by themselves. That's been tried. They "suck"... and the vacuum is only getting worse. Again, other than the effort given to fabricate results, or ignore the entire body of work, please explain how well the system currently works.

And if you are one of these "intellectuals", please give us your background so that we can add you to "the list". I eagerly await "your" response.

[Just1More]

Would that be the same public system you graduated from?

Careful T. I graduated from the public school system in Louisiana (Lafayette for that matter). I've watched my relatives, one at a time, generation after generation, struggle through a dilapidated Lafayette public school system. You don't even attempt to place your kids in a Baton Rouge based public school. It isn't about learning. It's about survival.

One of my great nieces is leaving the Lafayette public school system to go to a private school next year. You wouldn't believe the stories. Amazingly, as much as my little niece is a motor mouth (don't know where that came from) our family thought she wasn't all that bright. She got a tutor and after taking the entrance exams at the private school, they all said how smart she is. Little did we all realize, she was just regressing due to the pathetically run public school system. This was the same elementary school I went to in Lafayette. It was a great school back when I was there. They have absolutely no discipline. Of course, they've internalized everything and went only to the "intellectuals" for help. That help was less than worthless. It is the cause of the regression.

These "every kid gets a trophy" folks have almost destroyed American society. I was just visiting a good friend of mine in Lafayette over the Memorial Day weekend. His in-laws kids were staying over at his house. He pointed out how they've always praised their kids for the smallest things. Their kids can't even socialize with other kids normally. People love to point to a laundry list of reasons kids need this and that. They need the same basic fundamentals that we as humans have always needed. Things went wrong when public school system administrators allowed "social issues" to influence, then control, the education process. They don't get it. The rats just want to protect their ship of cheese.