While consolidation is better for the bottom line of the county, it's not good as far as loss of jobs, and opportunity for more kids to participate in sports and other extracirricular activities. Folks get on here all the time and go on and on about having a bigger gym, or more class offerings (which isn't gonna happen), and nicer classrooms...but, IMO, that view of things is somewhat short sighted. What they fail to realize is that regardless of the building, the cirriculum isn't going to get any better..the teachers are still gonna have to teach to the test, there will be a substantial loss of jobs, and more kids will have less opportunity to learn life lessons through sports. I look at it this way, on any given day in the fall, you have around 245 kids off the streets after school practicing football. After consolidation, you'll be looking at half of that...and in other activities you'll have less participating as well. I used to be all for consolidation, but once I sat and really thought about it, I don't think that's the best way to go for the communities and kids of this area. You folks can bash me all you want, but success in HS boils down to effort and ability. If a kid is short on either it doesn't matter if their classes are held in a high tech classroom or an outhouse, their success will be limited. Anybody that thinks consolidation is the magic bullet that will fix all of the problems they think it will fix will soon realize that it wasn't what they thought. The only thing it accomplishes is saving money...but you really have to stop and think what saving that money is going to cost the kids, the area and its economy in the long haul. IMO the cons outweigh the pros.
Originally Posted by burton2019
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