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Keep in mind the current BOE had to do something. If you want to blame a group you need to go back to the BOE that was in place when the Middle Schools were approved. You had one-to two members and the puppets that supported them that need to take responsibility for what's happening now.
Keep in mind the current BOE had to do something. If you want to blame a group you need to go back to the BOE that was in place when the Middle Schools were approved. You had one-to two members and the puppets that supported them that need to take responsibility for what's happening now.
Well too build 2 new high schools will run around around $40 million and 3 high schools would be around $60 million. I don't see Stanly county investing that much money or having the resources too.
First of all why are there 2 high schools with in 2 miles of each other with a county population of 18,000 between the two of them....! that's idiotic within itself. And now you want to shut down the city school and keep the rural one, gtfoh.
I think the first concern is getting kids out of mobile units. If you kept open AHS and SSHS and disperse NS kids you would eliminate some of that and still have room. Then you redistrict the west side of the city and you would
Increase AHS another 100 kids there and remove probably half of your mobile units at WS with the savings of 7.5 million you can add a wing to WS and build a new gym facility at AHS and still have money left over PLUS you would have 0 kids in mobile units. Additionally you would have AHS at around 800 kids with room to grow the facility if needed.
I think mobile classrooms are an issue and something that needs to go away. That should be a priority for all schools.
Give a breakdown of how NSHS closes and AHS is at 800 students taking in approximately 100 students WSHS.
NS has 623 students
Split down the middle so let's say 310 to AHS which gives them 720 and 310 to SS which gives them 770
Redistricting the west side gives AHS another 80-100 which would put them at 800-820 or 80-85% capacity. Plus it would reduce WS enough to hopefully move all kids out of the mobile units
Am I close on numbers Btango? Also am I misinterpreting this or do you agree on the thought process here?
I mean you have a $20 million budget and currently 14.5 million is going to WS and NS. My thinking is you could just take that and put it into SS, AHS and WS and using the other $5.5 million to create new programs. But that $14.5 million would eliminate the mobile units and fix all repairs needed to all schools or atleast be close. So you are saving 5.5 million dollars.
Correct me if I am wrong the intention behind building NS was for the growth probably expected in that side of the county which has not happened but has essentially deteriorated?
Additionally if NS was built on the far side of the county as WS is for example by Richfield what conversation would we be having now?
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Per my post in reply to sway North Stanly was probably built in the most optimal location at that time. A few miles farther north on the opposite side of New London would have probably been better but I expect the cost and availability of the land itself was the reason for putting the school where they did but it is my understanding that a large portion of the North Stanly student body lived in what is now the norther edge of the Albemarle City Limits so that may have been partially the reason the school was placed to the south of New London. Highway 52 went straight through New London at that time. There was not the four lane bypass of the town that is there now.
Once again you have to go back to the late 1950's when the planning for the three county high schools was taking place. West was built on the main road just like North and somewhat in the middle of its population. When West was was built Oakboro was the "big" town in western Stanly County and that is the nearest population center to WSHS. The population growth came to the far western end the last several years growing Locust and Stanfield but not Oakboro. West Stanly served Oakboro to the south, Ridgecrest to the north, Endy to the east, with Locust and Stanfield to the west. North did not have a school to the south but as I wrote a large part of the enrollment came from what is now the northern end of the Albemarle City Limits. To have been central to its feeder schools North would have been located just on the north side of New London instead of the south which I covered above.
Where the schools should have been built or what schools should have been constructed is a ship that has sailed. Basically have to work with what they have.
My understanding is that 2 board members voted for plan b and 1 against. That left 4 that did not vote but understand the way the motion was put forward those 4 counted as Yes's. I also understand this was a vote to review or study plan b. Am I correct so far? Now bulldognation and btango have made good arguments NOT to close AHS. But My feelings are this is exactly what Dr Griffin and the board are going to do. Close AHS. This has been their Number 1 priority from day one. Weither this is a plot by unforeseen people. I do not know, but their is smell of a strong bias coming from somewhere. I have lived in Albemarle all my life and I know of certain people that have keep industry from coming to town because they did not want to pay higher wages. There are certain well to do people that do NOT want Albemarle to grow. Sad but true.