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Posted on January 16 at 5:04 p.m.

EBR pulled the race card for almost a half-century, and it earned us some of the worst schools in the country. My 3 kids came up through EBR middle and high schools a number of years ago & all graduated. Kids beside them were of different races and economic levels & some graduated & many didn't. It's not about race, folks. "Maintenance" was horrible then, and has continued to deteriorate, but there is no accountability for "doing the best you can with what you have" in EBRP schools. NAACP & others helped create the problem, in my estimation, by placing race above accountability. One of my daughters now teaches in Zachary after having had 2 offers extended then withdrawn by EBRPSS- first due budgets and secondly "displaced teachers" (that's poorly performing teachers who can't be fired, so they have to find another school to put them in- collective bargaining for horrible performance- give me a break!). There are some great teachers in the parish who deserve medals for putting up with all the nonsense. I can't believe the gall, though, of the school system demanding more money with nothing to show for it! The "elephant in the room" is poor performance and lack of accountability, not race, people.

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