mTex
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7 hours ago, 36gut said:
You can't do any of this until it becomes politically and economically necessary.
That's what at least one of the state leaders had hoped to accomplish by now.
He underestimated how much love there is for the public schools, particularly those not in the major metropolitan areas.
Harmony and Union Grove exist for a reason. The parents who live in those districts SPECIFICALLY do NOT want junior and juniorette to have to go to school in Gilmer or Gladewater.
This is all true. I also wish more people would take into consideration of quality of education. There's a lot of schools out there that may not have a good reason to merge/shut down, they may even be solid competitively, but their rural location, dissapointing pay to teachers, and small size results in the kids getting a very subpar education.
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12 hours ago, TheFootballFan said:
Pine tree and Longview.... it will happen !
Unnecessary imo. East Texas doesn't need more giant 6A schools, let Longview be and hope they drop eventually.
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Just now, ronnyham said:
No need for our numbers to go up!
Maud isn't going to send your numbers up by much lol. Def not enough to push into 4A, so nothing is lost competitively.
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What about Maud and Redwater? Maud can't seem to get ANYTHING going well for them, might as well send them to RW.
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24 minutes ago, AttaKid0596 said:
Pewitt & Daingerfield
I'm not sure how this would work out, I know little about those communities, but what about Daingerfield and Hughes Springs? They appear to be rather close, closer than Omaha and Daingerfield for sure.
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1 hour ago, playactionpass39 said:
Under-performing?? As in educationally??
I would imagine overall in both education and extracurriculars.
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Pertaining to both the Paris and Texarkana ideas, it is definitely hard because of the differences in the communities. To my understanding, the Pleasant Grove and North Lamar communities are significantly more economically well off than their other local school districts. (correct me if I'm wrong) Rivalries don't help either. NL definitely wouldn't allow consolidation and PG's tendency to keep their district somewhat exclusive means redrawing the Texarkana school district lines to create even sized schools nearly impossible. They'd shoot down that idea very quickly even if it would be beneficial.
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Really controversial idea: There's about 3000 kids between each of the Texarkana, Texas. Instead of having 1 5A school and 2 small 4A schools, split them into even ~1000 person 4AD1 schools. This will never happen though and there's probably a lot of good arguments as to why they shouldn't.
Although I'm sure JT and the East Dallas 5As wouldn't complain!
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An occasional idea brought up when discussing schools that struggle with most or all of their programs is suggesting they should consolidate with another nearby school.
What schools do you think would benefit from this and who do you think wouldn't but gets brought up a lot? I always hear people talk (or joke) about combining QC and Atl all the time, but I personally think as far as athletics go, it would just basically be the Atlanta football team now playing in probably 4AD1, wouldn't be good. No other sports would probably benefit that much from consolidation either.
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4 hours ago, TK4AD said:
Man don't be hating on her. You are just jealous because your school isn't as progressive as QC is going to be. I mean think about the publicity QC could get with that hire!
Queen City is anything but progressive.
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2 minutes ago, JV_COACH said:
They would still lose in basketball, so that would not help either.
Mount Pleasant Chapel Hill?
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11 minutes ago, ronnyham said:
As long as kids are working hard, learning about dealing with ups and downs, being a part of a brotherhood then I would think its still beneficial
This. Absolutely agree.
There's also just the issue of how it'll affect the Cheerleading, Drill Team, and Marching Band programs if football isn't a thing at the school. All 3 of these programs benefit significantly from just simply having a football program.
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7 hours ago, CowboysFan82 said:
Heard that it is possible for Lindale to drop to 4AD1....never know with the numbers, but that would be good news for the Eagles.
They're riiiightt on the edge, so it's just all going to depend on what UIL does and if Lindale outgrows the cutoff, which they very consistently outgrow the cutoff just by a little.
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22 hours ago, Hogman2018 said:
They better hope they dont!!
Well if Carthage drops (Which is VERY likely), at PG's current level, l don't see them having that much of a problem as a 4AD1 school within this region, besides, they're attracting so many move-ins for athletics that the increased enrollment would help a lot. Out of this region though, totally different story.
On the other hand, they are graduating a LOT of talent with Class of 2020, so they probably don't want to move up just yet.
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Any chance of either of the Texarkana 4A schools moving up to D1? Pleasant Grove has been growing rather consistently, and now having limited open-enrollment and a suddenly successful football program has got to be pushing their enrollment up. Not sure about Liberty-Eylau.
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19 hours ago, Jerryhawk111 said:
Will Atlanta be going back up?
On 4/8/2019 at 10:46 AM, Valhalla said:Is Gladewater going back up?
Doubt to both of these, both schools are a solid 20-30ish kids under the cutoff and only seem to be growing smaller very quickly.
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As long as we have a thread going about 5A alignments, why not 4A?
Who will move between D2 and D1? Will Spring Hill finally drop to 3A, leaving District 6 Football potentially a 4 team district? Will anyone will move up from 3A or down from 5A?
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32 minutes ago, Nacwagons said:
Yes, everyone does know that, everyone except ppl in HP will admit it as well:)
Pretty sure Highland Park gets to control how district lines are redrawn in that area anyway, the rumor I've always heard is they just redraw to stay under the cutoff.
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10 hours ago, JTFAN99 said:
TEA enrollment 2018-2919...not sure if these school districts have alternative schools to add to enrollment, but these are the from the high school only
Lindale 1144
Kilgore 1109
C.Hill 1013
SS 1270
JAX 1267
Terrell 1202
Aledo 1787
Highland Park 2148- as long as any school stay below this number they will be 5a..lol
So Lindale is very likely, after all, UIL has been steadily moving up the cutoffs by ~100 each year. As for SS, doubt it, being at 1270 already puts them above what an estimated 2020 cutoff would be and they're consistently growing.
Also, if you want more info, check out the TEA data on middle schools, that way you can see if they have a smaller or larger set of classes than the high school they feed into, and get a good estimate.
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Not sure how important this is, but Lindale dropping to 4AD1 is basically guaranteed, at 1154 enrollment according to the rank order, Sulphur Springs will likely also drop cutting it close at 1218, but could out grow the cut-off.
Schools that would benefit from consolidation?
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Never said it would, I don't know a thing about the education at Gladewater and Union Grove anyway.