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However, there has been NOTHING to prove that consolidation will improve Wise County's education one iota. All the banter about AP courses, dual enrollment, etc etc.. the point is, all these classes are already available (I've been in some of them myself) and if for some reason they are not, then what spudsmac said about sending a bus to UVA Wise and/or MECC for a half day makes perfect sense. If it has worked for the shop students for years, then why not for the college bound ones?

Question, by your logic, what proof is there to prove it won't? Kind of hard to prove something, when there is examples, and you question them. Only proof will obviously be when it happens, one way or the other.

As for the shop, you're right. And that ties right into the technical school comparison that was made. Again, you're talking about most people who go to shop who are taking welding or cosmetology or something akin to that. Not what the major subject of discussion was. See these are facts, not the fight the power attitude you have.

You may have perspective and you're right some older folks aren't smarter, but what makes you so sure that you have perspective, because you think you do?? Sorry, every person in the teen to early 20 range is convinced they know more.

As for the classes taught, again, I'll repeat the same thing that has been said before but you deny and ignore because it doesn't suit your argument. A tv class, a video class, is not the same as interaction in a class room enviroment. You talk about teacher/student ratio at a small school but a video class is not interaction. I took a few classes like that at college, through UVA, and even there, the UVA-Wise students were sucking hind tits to the ones who were in the class and could go talk to the teacher, had more interaction and had someone there monitoring them who wasn't just there sitting in the back grading their papers for another class.

It's painfully obvious that if they layed everything down in a straight line for you, and the facts showed 100% that consolidation was right, you would see what you wanted to see. You can say the same thing about me, but I don't want the school consolidated. I complained and fussed about it horrible when it was discussed over here but then I didn't get brainwashed, I started looking at a bigger picture. Maybe one day you will or I guess this area can just rot. Obviously you want that. I made the community argument, that the communities are done dying, I made the argument about education equality, you're argument is "no way I dont want it".