Quote Originally Posted by simple man View Post
"Now the new thing is people don't mind paying a bit more taxes to keep the schools open, if that money is put into the schools. I don't know if you have really paid attention, the schools are funded at what, 1.5X times what they should be?"

Says 1.5x what they should be. Still- I can't remember ANYTHING being done to the high schools. I don't doubt that we are spending too much money at the moment, but what about 10-20 years ago? The folks that spend our county money would give 50,000 dollars for a Yugo, as long as somebody favorable gets the contract. If you can find the info look at the Basham era plans and the cost. The money to be spent was greatly different between the schools. So were the plan costs. I don't mind doubling the property tax, as long as we get good schools. As soon as you mention this , somebody will say the folks that pay rent are getting off scott free.
Far as this goes, when was the last time Clintwood got a good facelift?
As for DC they did put in the elevator a few years back when thy had a student in a wheel chair and about got into trouble for not having one......The older building could not be retro fitted with one so they hade the banister lift in that one however I figer that poor girl really struggled to get to her classes on time.......The HS Gym tends to flood every few years and I know that a floor was put in no more than 5 or 6 years ago........Not sure the county can afford much else considering that they are having HS teachers travel school to school to teach and have started using the electronic classrooms only for several core classes add to that the reason the classrooms are now so cold in the winter is that the furnace would need to be started a good 3 hours before school for them to get warm but due to cutbacks no one is allowed to come in so it is just going tto stay cold for the first 2 periods of the day