Why does Louisiana have parishes instead of counties?

i think its a frenchie thing.

You will also find that especially in acadiana, a lot of property will be described using arpents instead of acres and square feet. Very annoying stuff.

I've never heard of arpents before.

Your typical Louisiana native:

I hadn't either until I credited a guy for having way too much land because of thinking the survey was recorded using acres.

Almost fricked up big time on that one but luckily we caught it before anyone outside the office saw the report.

RA'd for posting picture of NIH

Yes. you have that correct.

I see why you don't have business in Texas though. Nobody goes to school by the looks of the map in that other thread.

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How does the school system work there?

Is each Parish School board in charge of a school "district?"

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Each parish has a superintendent and school board. I am not a fan of this system. There are too many schools in each the more populated districts, and very little consistency among them. Individual principals & schools kind of do their own thing.

good choice not working with EBR school board. Also i believe it is slightly different in EBR because central and zachary are break away districts inside the parish and I don't think they answer to the tards at EBRSB. The non incorporated part of Baton Rouge is trying to break away into its own town partly over the school system here. Im looking forward to the day when the tanks are rolling down the street as the great br civil war begins. Im make a push that we claim downtown br as part of new St. George.

Also the Parishes have to do with our french/ catholic heritage. I kinda like the slight difference

the french quarter should also really be called the spanish quarter