They are claiming they will go to court if the school board tries to close Pound and Appalachia. Really, they have no choice but to try that at this point. They have to stick with Luntsford.
Why is CEASE saying court?
They are claiming they will go to court if the school board tries to close Pound and Appalachia. Really, they have no choice but to try that at this point. They have to stick with Luntsford.
If memory serves, the nuclear option Perry presented before the 2 on 1 plan came about did include moving St Paul's students to Coeburn.
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It's about to go beyond ugly.Originally Posted by NotSoSilentBob
Honestly I think most people saw this as the eventual outcome....
The vote to allow the 2 on 1 was a delay tactic to keep all school open at least 1 more year (which may or may not end up working (I know if they do consoladte next year football schedules in SWVA will be in flux)
IMHO after the Bashham plan is inacted within a year THE BOS will be pushing to get new schools built.
Several people on these Boards need to learn that there is no "I" in TEAM !!!
When you become senile, you won't know it.
While it may have been a major victory for the county, that is only one of the battles. Now that the 2-1 has been basically "scrubbed", the next move is to get everyone together and get them to agree on a plan to fix the situation we, as a county, now find ourselves in. With the current make up of our two boards, I believe that is impossible. The focus now is to try and ensure that we elect people to these boards who will be willing to work for a solution.
Will not happen.....IMHO the BOS does not want to make a tough dission so they in effect are forceing the Basham plan (but it is not there fault so there are no reprocussions) after a year or 2 they will approve a plan to bulid new HS's becouse in effect the majory of people that are against it will be gone since Appy/Pound/StPaul will already be gone at which point the money for new schools will be a popular dission
Oh yes, the despicable "Basham Plan" has now raised its ugly head again. When will this horrendous option be finally killed until it is dead from it? Too melodramatic?
Anyway, this is the only option left on the table at this point. This it pathetic. Our complete lack of leadership on both boards over the past 20 years has brought us to this juncture. They have failed us greatly. God Bless us everyone because we will need it.
Thank God my daughter is graduating this May, June or July or whenever the current year ends. My wife and I have been blessed with a gifted child and I am confident she will be able to thrive in whatever direction she chooses in the future and I'm sure that will be out of this area as most of our "best and brightest" have chosen to do. Unfortunately, the remaining kids in our school system and those that will follow are now cursed to endure a sub-par education in sub-par facilities thus being ill-prepared to compete in a 21st century world economy.
My daughter has missed out on any benefits that new schools and an improved curriculum could have brought. She was in 1st or 2nd grade when the "Basham Plan" first came to light. Now she is graduating. Thus, another generation of children have passed through the system without the proper education that they truly deserve.
So, I'm done people. I hope the remaining and future parents of this county will eventually rise up AND stand up for their children to demand that their leaders finally lead and provide the education that their children deserve. I'll be praying for the rest of you.
......and I thought truth was universal. Silly me......
As a Norton resident with a wife from Appalachia I watched the whole thing. Why will Pound an Appy be closed and St. Paul in a year or two, because of budget issues.
Jeff Perry had told people the County cannot sustain funding for 6 schools unless there is a double digit tax increase, this was reiterated last night by the County CPA as well! Yet no one listens to that part of the equation do they?
The Va board of eduction has long recomennded the need to cut the number of schools in Wise Co in half, which was what Basaham proposed an they ran him off, hired Perry.
Everyone has focused on getting this done with the new found money the County might get from the power plant, which there is no promise it will open when completed. Dominion has one other power plant in Va it built that isn't operational and I think another in the carolinas; so this one might be finished an set idle as well, an no revenue is produced to help fund anything.
Schools and industry go hand in hand we lost the Northrop-Gruman jobs to Lebanon because of better schools. My History teacher in high school shared a local history story I found interesting and holds true to this day. When the founder of Kodak/Eastman was looking for sites to build his new plant he found the perfect place with a great river to draw from and began looking at the surrounding community at the schools all he found was one that combined k-12 that the locality had no intention of improving. This sealed the deal for him that he would have to go with his second choice which was about 25 miles away , because he knew to attract the best an brightest scientists from around the globe there had to be a top notch school system for their children to attend and this wouldn't succeed. The community he left behind when they had no vision to focus on the infrastructure of their children was Dungannon, Va. How many more our children of Wise co will move away because of lack of jobs? When will we realize our schools are a primary factor in business growth, we have the roadways that isn't a factor in potential business, it's the rundown schools that haven't been updated to even 1990 standards.
That teacher by the was was Jeff Perry at John I. Burton 1986.
One thing nt mentioned also, I think on purpose is the Board of Education has gave Wise Co a deadline to come up with a situation to resolve the issue or there are going to come in and take over and do one themseves. Two of Nortons members were at a BOE meeting back in Oct ad this was brought up and disccussed with them at the time about joint consolodation. The members said they were told there is a deadline and then they will step in takeover fix the school issue with a few options they decide to do and then turn it back over to they county. These plans don' involve Norton, but the members said there was 3 options there were told about, a plan similar to the one voted down but not on the same site, another was 3 new schools, last was one large school, with reference thats what West Virginia done in Mingo Co.
They wasnt told what the deadline was but got the inkling the BOE would step in if nothings finalized by 2012.
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