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Jindal’s Plan: Gut Public Education (Part One of Two)
Part One: The Personal Essay During the summer between sixth and seventh grade, my parents sat me down one evening and told me they had made a decision. “We’re enrolling you in Country Day,” my mother said. Up until that point, I’d attended public schools for my entire life. I went to Nachman Elementary from kindergarten through fifth grade, and in sixth grade, I attended the now-defunct South Alexandria Sixth Grade Center. At one point, the Rapides Parish School Board decided to experiment with “sixth grade centers,” with the notion that it could better insulate and prepare pre-adolescent kids for…
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Everyone Has A Disability
Less than two weeks ago, on the night of January 5th, I was hanging out with some friends at the Blue Nile on Frenchman Street in New Orleans. For many reasons, it’s become one of my favorite places in New Orleans, though, admittedly it’s primarily because I’m good friends with a handful of its employees, and whenever I am there, they treat me like family. I’m also an unabashed fan of Frenchman Street. For someone like me, someone who can only visit New Orleans sporadically and who can’t stand the stench, the obnoxious public drunkenness, and the claustrophobia of Bourbon…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
