When The Doors Close

I'm afraid so.
And some of us with jobs & lives have to go to bed. I dont want to be dreaming about this crap as I sleep so I'll be logging off.

When it's all said and done - the schools lack much to be desired and I do believe any child of mine deserves better.
I can rest easy knowing I'll do what it takes to do the best by my child should I have one one day (even if it means saying "screw the public schools we're outta here").

BTW - intentional centralization of economic development in Wise/Norton is just that - intentional. Pound doesn't have the offerings and refuses to provide offerings to bring development. They won't even permit a fast food joint in town limits (not that I consider that great development, but it's a legitimate example)! And why would national chains even want to come to a town with a population of 1000? Most chains (retail/restaurant) have population and traffic flow requirements before they'll even consider a particular location.
Industries are choosing, of all places, industrial parks provided by other towns. Pound refuses to do that. Pound won't recruit. Money won't come to a former coal town these days - the town has to go recruiting it.
Pound is shooting itself in the foot.

then you can choose

People in Flat Gap used to have their own school, people in the Hurricane used to have their own school, East Stone Gap used to have their own school, etc.

Are they worse off because their school shut down and consolidated with the school in town?

That is the whole problem,, kids in wise and bsg have the oranges,, the rest of the kids in the county have the sour apples.

lol, I guess thats why only people from BSG and Wise go to college.

If it is difficult for kids to hop in their cars and go to classes at the colleges- Is it not equally true that such a situation is exactly the same with a consolidated high school? I do believe these transportation problems can be solved. You have a lot fewer kids that would need transportation for AP than moving every high school kid in the county to one or two campuses.

Yeah, thats a great point. Because they are in the same town. Flat Gap (an even better example) 45 minutes from JJK highschool.

do you not think school consolodation would not take that into effect? IE locating the consolodated schools close to the higher learning centers?

What about the more than manifold inconvenience to the majority of kids who don't tske AP classes?

are you really from Pound? born and raised there?