mTex Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcsnowflakes Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Careful talking about QC. There are some very sensitive people there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballjunky Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 I think combing Paris and Clarksville would benefit both the football and basketball programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valhalla Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Ore City, Diana, and Harleton Keep the elementary and middle school campuses. Make one big 9-12 high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTman7 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 New Diana - Harleton Ore City- Harleton Or the biggie....New Diana-Ore City-Harleton (this was actually a consideration and in talks MANY years ago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTman7 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 5 minutes ago, Valhalla said: Ore City, Diana, and Harleton Keep the elementary and middle school campuses. Make one big 9-12 high school. LOL...I was typing mine as I saw you had posted. Beat me to it darn it, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valhalla Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 8 minutes ago, TTman7 said: LOL...I was typing mine as I saw you had posted. Beat me to it darn it, lol. If you just add up what the enrollment would be: OC: 270ish Harleton: 225ish Diana: 315ish Thats about 810 in the high school. It would be a very good baseball school lol. Football would be okay. Basktball would be terrible still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 3 hours ago, Valhalla said: Ore City, Diana, and Harleton Keep the elementary and middle school campuses. Make one big 9-12 high school. 3 hours ago, TTman7 said: New Diana - Harleton Ore City- Harleton Or the biggie....New Diana-Ore City-Harleton (this was actually a consideration and in talks MANY years ago). That’d be crazy if it actually happened. Diana is the school known more for its athletics than OC and Harleton so it’d be a plus for those two schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEASTeastTX Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 It is harder to do this in the East because there are a lot of separate communities and logistically it would be a nightmare. It works out west because a lot of the consolidation happens where the population is a whole lot more sparse and kids would be driving 30-45 minutes to school anyways. I know OC and harleton are close but you're talking about running buses out starting way earlier and other things of that nature for kids to get to school. If you were to combine you might as well send all the kids to Gilmer or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 ^ Union Hill is still holding on as a small 1A school. They could join with Gilmer, Harmony, Pittsburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctown81 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Dallas Lincoln and Dallas Madison. There is no reason why these two schools shouldn't be combined when they are right up the street from one another. I would argue they both have some of the best athletes in the state. They all go to the same middle school but get split up in high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mTex Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 I heard a rumor Dommer would like Beckville and Gary to consolidate! True story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destry Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 2 hours ago, TTman7 said: New Diana - Harleton Ore City- Harleton Or the biggie....New Diana-Ore City-Harleton (this was actually a consideration and in talks MANY years ago). Green,blue, gold mixed. Yuk mascott would be the RECs i guess rebels,eagles, cats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermaroon Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 19 hours ago, footballjunky said: I think combing Paris and Clarksville would benefit both the football and basketball programs. I think if Clarksville was to combine with anyone it would either be Detroit or Rivercrest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playactionpass39 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 13 hours ago, mTex said: 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! The 3 schools in Texarkana are all completely separate School Districts in totally distinct communities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. P Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Most 2A and 1A schools that are within easy driving distance (subjective, I know) of each other and are consistently underperforming should be consolidated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playactionpass39 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 19 hours ago, footballjunky said: I think combing Paris and Clarksville would benefit both the football and basketball programs. I would think Paris would consolidate with North Lamar first, but again, like Texarkana these are 2 distinct communities that will never combine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playactionpass39 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 1 minute ago, AKA said: Most 2A and 1A schools that are within easy driving distance (subjective, I know) of each other and are consistently underperforming should be consolidated. Under-performing?? As in educationally?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelvisPresley Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 11 hours ago, Destry said: Green,blue, gold mixed. Yuk mascott would be the RECs i guess rebels,eagles, cats brown, orange, and gold...would be the new color scheme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermaroon Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 7 minutes ago, playactionpass39 said: I would think Paris would consolidate with North Lamar first, but again, like Texarkana these are 2 distinct communities that will never combine. Definitely 2 different communities. This has been brought up several times over the years and every time the North Lamar folks come and absolutely shoot this down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mTex Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mTex Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 1 hour ago, playactionpass39 said: Under-performing?? As in educationally?? I would imagine overall in both education and extracurriculars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrclean69 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 2 hours ago, AKA said: Most 2A and 1A schools that are within easy driving distance (subjective, I know) of each other and are consistently underperforming should be consolidated. Some of the 2As and 1As that could consolidate into a bigger district were created to get away from the bigger district. For many reasons, white flight being one of the biggest historically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyham Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 6 minutes ago, mrclean69 said: Some of the 2As and 1As that could consolidate into a bigger district were created to get away from the bigger district. For many reasons, white flight being one of the biggest historically. get ready for the fireworks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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