There should be no attendance zones public or private. In New Orleans, post Katrina, kids from Gentilly go to schools all over New Orleans. There's a ton of charter schools now. In addition to that, there's the state controlled recovery school district and the Orleans parish school board, which is only responsible for only a dozen or so schools now. I never got the idea of school districts anyway. If a kid wants to go outside the district to a charter or magnet type school, he should be able to. There are charter schools that specialize in science and language....why not have a few schools that specialize in athletics?
Sure, but it would be a district. In south Louisiana private schools are fairly close together and districting would introduce more fairness. In north Louisiana, private schools are far fewer and more widely spaced, but there is less of a problem in north Louisiana.
The Supreme Court will not allow it because of the desegregation law. When Louisiana schools desegregated in 1968, they allowed "freedom of choice" . . . any student could go to any school they wanted. So all the white kids went to the traditional white schools and ll the black kids went to traditionally black schools. It lasted one year before the courts put districts back into the picture. Because those schools would dominate the field, which is EXACTLY the problem. Competition in science and language is an individual contest. Team sports are a quite different matter.
Red, that is true, but now New Orleans is over 70% black...so desegregation is a moot point here today. That's why this isolating of all private schools athletically reminds me of "separate but equal"
They already do. Their names are John Curtis, Evangel Christian, Parkview Baptist and Calvary Baptist.
That's what I was talking about !! Honestly, I think they're wrong for placing so much emphasis on the athletic programs...They do that because they're "for profit" schools and winning football increases enrollment. $$$$ is what it's all about for them. But other private schools are about producing better humans that will be leaders that better society. Sana MENS in sana corpore. (Healthy MIND in a healthy body)
