I was told once that this column, Baja St. Martin, was my opinion so to speak and I could say what I wanted. So I am. I found it very hard therefore to read a column in the May 13 Teche News in which the St. Martin Parish school board had received the results of a zoom meeting with LEAN FROG, a company whose job is to suggest ways a school district can be streamlined.
One of the board members responded by proposing that small K-8 parish schools, in particular Stephensville Elementary (it was mentioned) should send all its students to St. Mary Parish and I guess he thinks this will make the school district financially great.
Not once did this board member (at least not in the paper) mention that Stephensville Elementary is the BEST school in the entire parish! The only one to be given an A rating by the DOE. The article said the board didn’t agree with this man’s suggestion. Thank goodness.
