Sb meeting tonight

**ibe4warriors** · September 29th, 2010, 02:52 PM

I'm still confused as how Wise Is gonna hold all the students..I thought It was In the worse shape of all of them..I just hope all goes well when they all get together.

**1inStripes** · September 29th, 2010, 03:01 PM

It should hold them fine since it still wouldn't meet the maximimum amount of students it every held I guess.

**NotSoSilentBob** · September 29th, 2010, 03:11 PM

I wish I could find the enrollments from the early 80s. If memory serves, most Wise Co. schools had 700+ students.

**TheBeast** · September 29th, 2010, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by R13

Kid from Pound just said, with his mother by his side, that he wouldn't go to Wise and he might just drop out.

I'll ruin my life and my mom is gonna let me do it, that'll show'em. If I was on the board I would have spoken up right then and said well that's your choice but Pound is still going to be closed and moved to Kelly.

This proposal didn't include shutting down St. Paul High School. It had been part of all the other scenarios. Anyone have any ideas about this??

As Stripes said it is the newest building. What they haven't been talking about is that SP will have K-12 in the same building and only offer basic core courses. If your kid wants to take any higher level/advanced classes they will have to go somewhere else ie Coeburn/Castlewood.

**simple man** · September 29th, 2010, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by The_Sage

This proposal didn't include shutting down St. Paul High School. It had been part of all the other scenarios. Anyone have any ideas about this??

A&B-A -the kids that go to Castlewood would cost us MORE money and B- they can use some support items for all grades K-12, this would save some money.

**Rocky** · September 29th, 2010, 06:38 PM

i dont understand what everyone means by the "you arent getting a quality education" argument? i went to appy, i got an advanced diploma and finished my high school career with 14 college credit hours. I was pretty much a semester ahead of a lot of the kids i went to ETSU with. did they stop the dual enrollment program or what? we had kids taking AP courses too did they drop that as well? if they did then that is just pitiful.

Sportsman* · September 29th, 2010, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by ibeawildcat

I'm still confused as how Wise Is gonna hold all the students..I thought It was In the worse shape of all of them..I just hope all goes well when they all get together.

Kelly once housed almost 900 students, grades 8-12, back in the early 80's I believe.

**pvfan** · September 29th, 2010, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by Rocky

i dont understand what everyone means by the "you arent getting a quality education" argument? i went to appy, i got an advanced diploma and finished my high school career with 14 college credit hours. I was pretty much a semester ahead of a lot of the kids i went to ETSU with. did they stop the dual enrollment program or what? we had kids taking AP courses too did they drop that as well? if they did then that is just pitiful.

Freshman college courses > AP courses in my experience anyway.

**The_Sage** · September 29th, 2010, 08:09 PM

What is everyones opinion on the percentage of 'defectors' going to a different school if all these changes occur?

**centennialdawg** · September 29th, 2010, 08:45 PM

Someone actually posted their thoughts on this in an earlier post. I would say that about 10-15% from pound will go to Clintwood the first year, then it will reduce down to about 1% after the first year. Appy is another story. I would say that probably 30-40% of them will go to Lee with the most of the 8th graders going to Burton, since they are slated to go to PVMS next year. Again, those will drop off to about 5 percent after that. Just my thought.