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Lauren
Baton Rouge, LA
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Perry wrote: Just a observation but most of the children parents that attend Tunica School don't own property in this parish and don't pay these taxes. There are other children in the northern part of the parish and other parts that have the same miliage to get to school. Change is never easy, but sometimes is nessery. Very wrong observation. You are thinking of the kids who live on angola. they don't have proptery taxes. I can name off plenty of parents whom don't live on angola whose kids attend tunica elementary and own not only a house or trailer but also alot of property that their home is on. They pay taxes to west feliciana parish. The taxes on ALL THE LAND they own can be more than a house in a subdivison in st. francisville so gets your facts straight. I agree that this change is needed and will help but ASSUMING that all the land in tunica is not having taxes paid on is freaking ridiculous!!
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butler
Baton Rouge, LA
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If our parish will end up like east feliciana then our property value will go down and people will move out of parish.
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butler
Baton Rouge, LA
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The Tunica community was told in a meeting that if the property tax was passed Tunica would never CLOSE. Mr Perkins lead the meeting. I do live at Angola and i am West Feliciana property owner. So what will happen to the school when it closes? There was just a couple of hundred thousand spent on a face lift there. I graduated from tunica and west fel.
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Larry
Baton Rouge, LA
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Perhaps you should call up Mr. Perkins.
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WhatThe-
United States
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Perhaps someone should have made it clear that even if the tax passed, there was still a chance for Tunica to be shut down. There are plenty of landowners in Tunica paying taxes, shouldn't we/they have some say in the closing of a school that is very dear to alot of us.
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Sam
Baton Rouge, LA
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WhatThe- wrote: Perhaps someone should have made it clear that even if the tax passed, there was still a chance for Tunica to be shut down. There are plenty of landowners in Tunica paying taxes, shouldn't we/they have some say in the closing of a school that is very dear to alot of us. There is always a chance something will close. There is always a chance something will go wrong and things will close and change. The parish lost school funding due to lots of various reasons. We have to make a change. Tunica is near and dear to myself and my entire family. However to stabilize the school system and make way for a better future it has to be closed. tunica is just one of many changes coming and it has to be done to support the entire school system. Things change, people change, the world changes. It is how you react and grow from that change which make a difference to your children. Show them bitterness about it and they will show bitterness about it and it molds a changed bitter child.
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AResident
Baton Rouge, LA
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Sam wrote: <quoted text>
It is how you react and grow from that change which make a difference to your children. Show them bitterness about it and they will show bitterness about it and it molds a changed bitter child. Exactly. If a big stink is made over the school closing, the kids will take that negative attitude with them going into next school year. If it were a high school with 300+ students I could understand people wanting to fight against the closing. But in this case, it is a small school that these kids have to leave at an early age anyway. The change will not harm the students, it will help them. They will have access to more programs and be exposed to their future middle school/high school peers sooner. That will allow them to build better relationships with everyone. Hopefully this will serve as a wakeup call to everyone and get folks back on the right track and working together.
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WhatThe-
United States
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You can not have a change like this and not expect a "big stink" to be made. I understand all about the need for changes and that things sometimes don't always work out, but I can not see how removing my child from a smaller school and throwing him in a classroom with alot more students is beneficial to him. I would feel differently if I knew for sure that he would not be crammed in a classroom with 30-40 kids. I want my child to be more than just a name on a roll call sheet.
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Its about time
Baton Rouge, LA
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As I understand the state correction system will soon face budget cuts, similar in scale to the resent cuts in education and healthcare, I think it is fair to assume that the current enrolment of 115 will be even less after the layoffs that will result from these cuts.
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Its about time
Baton Rouge, LA
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WhatThe- wrote: You can not have a change like this and not expect a "big stink" to be made. I understand all about the need for changes and that things sometimes don't always work out, but I can not see how removing my child from a smaller school and throwing him in a classroom with alot more students is beneficial to him. I would feel differently if I knew for sure that he would not be crammed in a classroom with 30-40 kids. I want my child to be more than just a name on a roll call sheet. We are all very blessed to live in a parish that has quality public education. If you have certain qualifiers that must be met for your child perhaps you would feel more comfortable sending your child to a private school.
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Former student
Baton Rouge, LA
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WhatThe- wrote: You can not have a change like this and not expect a "big stink" to be made. I understand all about the need for changes and that things sometimes don't always work out, but I can not see how removing my child from a smaller school and throwing him in a classroom with alot more students is beneficial to him. I would feel differently if I knew for sure that he would not be crammed in a classroom with 30-40 kids. I want my child to be more than just a name on a roll call sheet. I understand your concerns; however the numbers we are talking about would not have a dramatic effect on class size. 115 students over seven grade levels breaks down to 16-17 students per grade, most grade levels have at least six units, so at the most we are looking at an increase of 2-3 children per class. I have a son in kindergarten, he currently has 21 students in his class, and this is the average class size. Bains Lower and Bains could easily absorb the small number of students from Tunica and still maintain one of the lowest student to teacher ratios in the state.
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WhatThe-
United States
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Former student wrote: <quoted text>
I understand your concerns; however the numbers we are talking about would not have a dramatic effect on class size. 115 students over seven grade levels breaks down to 16-17 students per grade, most grade levels have at least six units, so at the most we are looking at an increase of 2-3 children per class. I have a son in kindergarten, he currently has 21 students in his class, and this is the average class size. Bains Lower and Bains could easily absorb the small number of students from Tunica and still maintain one of the lowest student to teacher ratios in the state. Thanks for the information, it is exactly the kind of info I was looking for. I am just trying to make sure there isn't going to be overcrowding which results into teachers not knowing their students needs or who they are beyond a name.
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WhatThe-
United States
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Its about time wrote: <quoted text>
We are all very blessed to live in a parish that has quality public education. If you have certain qualifiers that must be met for your child perhaps you would feel more comfortable sending your child to a private school. Any parent would have "certain qualifiers" for their children and where they send them to school. To not have certain expectations of your child's school is not very responsible. I'm not asking for special treatment for my child, I am just asking that the school have class sizes that are not overwhelming and that are more conducive for the teaching of each individual child. Private school and home schooling is still an option, I just don't want to discount public school based on the wrong info.
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JUST WONDERING
Saint Francisville, LA
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It appears as though the teachers and the students are the ones that are carrying the brundt of these cuts. Why not start at the top where the "fat" really is? Central Office perhaps? Mike Clark (nothing against him) retired and then was re-hired at a higher pay. What is that? Plus others that have been in the "system" for toooo long. Have them take the retirement plan!! Leave our kids and teachers alone!!!
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Skull Dr
Saint Francisville, LA
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Just Wondering wrote: <quoted text>
The West Feliciana Parish Police Jury had a designated tax that was to be allocated between the Jury and the Hospital. No designation of a per centage was included. The West Feliciana Parish Police Jury was placed in a position to divide the tax on a monthly basis as they saw fit. The West Feliciana Parish Police Jury never out of the goodness of their heart transferred money to "bail out" the hospital. Maybe you should go back to the local newspapers archives and read the papers from that era. Begin with 1980 and move forward and then you'll have the correct information.
Further you can not take a dedicated tax and transfer it to another agency. Maybe, just maybe, those with "surplus" managed their money properly. Maybe those without should have had the foresight to do so. So those "good" people take their ball and go home. Yeah that helps a lot. Got two words for you, BIG PICTURE" or maybe "NARROW MINDED. Just waiting to see who will be the next scape goat.
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dissappionted
Saint Francisville, LA
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I went to both Bains and Tunica. Tunica for me was a far better experience.
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Larry
Baton Rouge, LA
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dissappionted wrote: I went to both Bains and Tunica. Tunica for me was a far better experience. Yes. People fair better in smaller groups. However, life is like Bains. Alot of people, different types of people, personalities, etc.
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WF resident
Baton Rouge, LA
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What will cause overcrowding, is if Tunica remains open and forces the school board to make cuts elsewhere. The only place to make those cuts would be layoffs and less teachers with the same amount of students equal bigger classes.
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Cold Drink
Baton Rouge, LA
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Let's review: We do not want big box stores. We do not want housing developments. We fire our economic development guy. We fire our parish manager. We have indicted police jurors. We have to sue the jury to get public records. Does this look like a parish that business wants to come to? We need to get our house in order! We're paying a tax for economic development. Why haven't we replaced Jones with someone who knows what the hell he's doing that can steer this whacky bus in the right direction? WTF? We want to fire Sims, great! Let's get on with replacing him! Quit dragging your feet, jurors! Damn!
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disappointed
Saint Francisville, LA
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Larry wrote: <quoted text>
Yes. People fair better in smaller groups. However, life is like Bains. Alot of people, different types of people, personalities, etc. There are many different types of people and personalities at Tunica as well. We weren't all exaclty the same, and because if that it teaches you to get to know everybody. Not just the people you think are like yourself.
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