re: #180 zombie

Zom …

Not all kids in Louisiana are representative of the stereotype. Two of my daughter’s best friends in high school scored 1600’s on their SAT’s (standardized nationally), and my daughter was offered several four-year out-of-state scholarships. Educational excellence is heavily dependent on parental involvement and — sad to say — there are large chunks of Louisiana where parental involvement is virtually non-existent. Those large chunks produce those abysmal numbers you see … the number of kids that excel in school are far outweighed by those who don’t but that doesn’t mean that kids from Louisiana should be discriminated against nationally (of course, I am speaking pre-creationism bill).

My kids did attend a public school, but overall I feel they both got an excellent education —- again, I was lucky that I could be one of those parents that volunteered at school, etc ….and I had high expectations.