Louisiana SR 186: COMMENDATIONS:  Commends TM Landry College Preparatory School, its founders, and students.

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2018 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 186
BY SENATORS BOUDREAUX AND MILLS
A RESOLUTION
To commend TM Landry College Preparatory School, its founders, and students.
WHEREAS, TM Landry College Preparatory School is located in Breaux Bridge,
Louisiana, and was founded in 2005 by Mike and Tracey Landry; and
WHEREAS, Mike and Tracey Landry founded TM Landry College Preparatory
School after realizing that their children needed a more effective instructional model than
public schools were able to offer; and
WHEREAS, they started their own home school in a garage and currently enroll one
hundred seventy-five students in its open-air building that formerly housed a fabrication
facility; and
WHEREAS, TM Landry College Preparatory School is an independent,
coeducational year-round college prep school for intellectual, "out-of-the-box" thinkers who
want to pursue a serious, purposeful education, with the ultimate goal of achieving success
in college and beyond; and
WHEREAS, the students bring their own lunch and their parents drive them to school
early each day and pick them up at "Dark Thirty" as the school day winds down and the sun
sets; and
WHEREAS, the model for instruction is a flexible, Montessori college readiness
program that takes into account the individual needs of the student; and
WHEREAS, there are no textbooks, no homework, and no specific class schedule;
and
WHEREAS, students from kindergarten to high school work together and tutor each
other to achieve mastery of their subjects with the 'itty bitties' learning economic and
government principals right alongside the older high school students; and
WHEREAS, students must achieve a score of ninety percent or higher before they
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can move on and build upon a solid base of skills as they master intense subjects such as
Mandarin, Latin, Hindi, Arabic, Calculus, and Physics, among others; and
WHEREAS, students attending TM Landry College Preparatory School scored an
average of twenty-four on the ACT exam in 2014-2015 and an average of twenty-seven in
2016-2017; and
WHEREAS, the graduation rate at TM Landry Preparatory School is one hundred
percent with dual enrollment courses and acceptance to four-year colleges and universities;
and
WHEREAS, graduates of TM Landry College Preparatory School have been awarded
more than nineteen million dollars in scholarships; and
WHEREAS, graduates of TM Landry College Preparatory School have been
accepted to such prestigious institutions of higher learning as Harvard University, Yale
University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Wellesley College, Syracuse
University, Tulane University, Wesleyan University, Brown University, Stanford University,
and Columbia University, among others; and
WHEREAS, students graduating in 2018 are Codey Babineaux, Jada Wiltz,
Blake Rabalais, Troy Greene, Kayla Amos, Dewellyn Howard, Aliko LeBlanc,
James Dennis, Kamon Leday, Asja Jackson, Aryton Little, Alex Little, Treston Egby, and
Jerondrus Maz; and
WHEREAS, since its inception, TM Landry College Preparatory School has been
dedicated to promoting each child's self worth and dignity in a supportive, educational, and
safe environment while preparing them to prosper and flourish in a culturally diverse,
technological society, while achieving the goal that every child not only gets into college but
gets through it as well.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend TM Landry College Preparatory School, its founders, and students
for promoting and achieving high academic standards, and extend enduring appreciation for
the tremendous pride and honor that the students and founders of TM Landry College
Preparatory School will forever bring to the Breaux Bridge community, the state of
Louisiana, and the United States of America.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
TM Landry College Preparatory School.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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