lets shut JJ Kelly down and send the students to the other schools

[starbuck]

lets just send all the Kelly kids to Pound, Coeburn, Appy and PV for the next year while they work on the school in Wise to bring it up from its dangerous, delapadated, falling down state before we put all the kids in Pound in there. Then do the same the next year to PV, send all those students to the surrounding schools while they renovate PV High School. As a parent who went through this in Norton at the Elm & Middle school I will tell you it can be done but it would be so much better to do this over a year without any students to work around.

[R13]

Really not feasible at all, sending kids to 5 different schools, it's nothing like the NES situation. How would you even determine who goes where? Don't even know how that would be possible or if they could do that. This was just a move to show people consolidation is going to happen, the BOS can do it the right way or sit by and do nothing, ball is in their court now. Much easier and actually possible to just bring the smaller schools into the larger ones that can handle it, then sending the larger ones to all the rest.

[starbuck]

kids entering 9th can to to Appy. kids entering 10th will go to Pound. kids entering 11th will go to PV and kids entering 12th can to to Coeburn. Or if it would make them feel better the seniors can stay at Kelly in a corner of the building while they work on the rest of the school but that would be just as crazy at my first post.

[R13]

kids entering 9th can to to Appy. kids entering 10th will go to Pound. kids entering 11th will go to PV and kids entering 12th can to to Coeburn. Or if it would make them feel better the seniors can stay at Kelly in a corner of the building while they work on the rest of the school but that would be just as crazy at my first post.

And they're supposed to bus these kids all over the county? What about for example a brother in the 10th grade and a sister in the 11th living in the same home, but going to schools 30 plus minutes apart. Which is just one problem...sports eligibility would work how? If enovations take more than a year, would they have to change schools again with the rotation? Like I said, its not feasible.

[1inStripes]

No offense starbuck, but that may be one of the worst ideas ever. Its just not feasible at all to shift entire grades to such and such school.

Wise County, and especially the BOS, is just going to have to man up and deliver some money for 3 new schools in the near future. It should have been done a decade ago really.

[simple man]

Things like that was what broke me on the "cram" plan the first time. Basham said JJ Kelly was too small for the kids they had and needed to expand- but not enough to make up for the kids he was gonna bring in from Pound. I asked them about JUST trying to switch some bus routes to fill Appy and Pound while they got a plan together for new schools. All it would have taken was some fuel for the bus- not a member of the board would even talk about that, even if they didn't like things- what are you out? Switching back to the original school. I was never happy about closing schools, but wouldn't have been against new schools. And to bus for one year, how bad could it be? But I do think he was poking fun at the boards.

[starbuck]

but that would be just as crazy as my first post.

the OP was 90% sarcasm with the 10% truth being how much easier it would have been on the construction of the Norton Elem & Middle schools if it were empty
Yes simple man, poking at the boards and the people who actually stood up at the SB meeting and said this not being sarcastic