Final NCHAA realignment out
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Same draft as before.....the big question now is, will Haywood county have Youth league volunteers or well qualified, experienced High School coaches, or will they even play next year! Poor leadership in the Central office and a silent school board that is hiding from the public! They continue to turn their head and look away from an incompetent administration.
One administrator even commented that schools " may not even have HS sports", No pay for any assistants, gate money or booster club may not help pay assistants! Each school must now pay $1.61 cent a mile back to the district for bus usage. More than double than in past years and much more than any other district. This is an additional $12,000 to 15,000 for the HS to pay the district in a year for travel. Any student participant will be hit with a fee of $100.00 to 200.00 dollars. Poor leadership and a silent school board has brought us to this point!!
I always think it is funny how a system wants the school to pay them x amount per mile, when the system actually owns and maintains the buses. Another way to milk the families of after school activities participants.
A Disconnected school board that shuts its eyes to the poor leadership of the administration and fails to stand up for the Kids. The top Heavy administration slaps the very ones (poorly paid and underappreciated) that have daily face to face mentorship with the kids .........teachers and coaches. Most of the Administration never stepped on a athletic field!
Sounds like people will be leaving Haywood Co if their kids want to play HS sports if what y'all say is true. That's sad for two proud and tradition rich schools.
If you figure all the hours a high school coach works he or she probably makes less than fifty cents an hour.So coaches like teachers do it for the kids not the money.The assistant coaches do it for the same reason.Yes Pisgah and Tuscola will be just fine.
You are right in one thought......wrong in another......No one loves the kids more than coaches, true......no one wants to stay anywhere they are de-valued, disrespected, and taken advantage of!! These coaches have to buy Christmas for their own, put tires the on car, pay doctor bills for their own children and the pennies on the hour helps to do this. The only one who couldn't see this is a over zealous youth league coach or a dad coach who thinks this could get him on the sideline. Youth league coaches bring youth league results!! Watch the gate receipts plummet to the bottom!
My earnest hope is that this all scare tactics by the administration to whip up fear. If they think a little ole charter school stole some of their student base, follow through with some of this ill-conceived mess and you will see a seismic shift of children out of HCPS.
It will be too late for my family but down the road you will see more school closures if this county and its municipalities don't get their act together.
It will be too late for my family but down the road you will see more school closures if this county and its municipalities don't get their act together.
in my opinion theres way too much money spent paying the salaries of those administrators and not near enough paid to the teachers and coaches
I don't want to tread too far down the road of politics but frankly, the public schools systems and the state education department were too slow to react to the changes in party politics in Raleigh. The current power structure essentially warned them they were coming to totally revamp how things are done. The educational establishment was in the pocket of and rode the coat-tails of the Democratic party for many years and has not been able to adapt to the change. This all may shift somewhat come November. We will have to wait and see.
Locally, they thought they could just fall back on "But its for the children!" and that would make everything better. They have blamed Raleigh for some of what has been their own short sightedness. The county commission is loathe to raise taxes for their own self-preservation and falls back on their highly touted funding formula that was developed to end bickering and the negotiating process between the two boards. They would probably hand them some more money IF the school board could convince the public they truly need more. The school board has relied on the administration to be the mouthpiece and lead them around and now its biting them on the butt.
I've spoken before about the economic and demographic shift of population in the western side of Haywood Co. so there is no need to go into it again. Suffice it to say if you have no jobs to sustain families of childbearing and rearing age, you will not need as many schools.
The tightwad, "newcomer", NIMBY, retirees with their McMansions rule the roost around here. Brevard is in the same boat as us, BTW.
Locally, they thought they could just fall back on "But its for the children!" and that would make everything better. They have blamed Raleigh for some of what has been their own short sightedness. The county commission is loathe to raise taxes for their own self-preservation and falls back on their highly touted funding formula that was developed to end bickering and the negotiating process between the two boards. They would probably hand them some more money IF the school board could convince the public they truly need more. The school board has relied on the administration to be the mouthpiece and lead them around and now its biting them on the butt.
I've spoken before about the economic and demographic shift of population in the western side of Haywood Co. so there is no need to go into it again. Suffice it to say if you have no jobs to sustain families of childbearing and rearing age, you will not need as many schools.
The tightwad, "newcomer", NIMBY, retirees with their McMansions rule the roost around here. Brevard is in the same boat as us, BTW.
All politicians on both sides are afraid to raise taxes because they will lose their job.Yet the voter still believes they should not cut any thing that affects then.Like closing Central Elementary.
You seem to think East Haywood is doing better.We certainly don't have the tourists but at the same time the mill that once employed three thousand has less than a thousand now.
I don't have a budget in front of me for review but I would not automatically assume that taxes would need to be raised at all. Look first at the fat and pork that is included in the administrations pet projects that are over funded or completely unnecessary. One unnecessary administration job cut at the central office would be 50% to 70% of the funding needed to pay all assistant coaches in the county! The most important people in the system are in the local schools teaching (poor get poorer) and the least important are warning a seat (rich get richer).
The Haywood County superintendent is doing such a wonderful job that she got a 3 year extension last year. Two more years to go of no leadership at the top. Until the school board stops being a group of enablers, things won't improve. She will coast the next 2 years, make about 280k counting her benefits package, and then retire while the person that follows her will have a mess to clean up. If one of us were allowed to run a business like she has, the business would go under. It's certainly disappointing; our teachers and our kids deserve better.
It could happen if they ever returned to 3A. The way Denver is growing, it could happen someday.
Would Lincoln County do what it takes to allocate kids to keep all the schools roughly the same size?
Lake Norman Charter and Lincoln Charter are keeping the East Lincoln numbers way, way down. Those two schools non existence would drive East Lincoln to the top half of the realignment 3A numbers. The upper income residents will push Lake Norman Charter to higher enrollment numbers soon. I would not be surprised if they surpassed East Lincoln in attendance in a decade.
While this would help the golf and tennis teams those kids probably don't make much difference in football.
Maybe, maybe not. They say that about all those Charlotte Catholic kids when all the pretty white boys get off the bus. You know the 2016 4A Football AND Basketball Champions. Same for Charlotte Christian, Charlotte Latin, Providence Day. Lake Norman Charter is very good at basketball. Football is going to get good one day soon.
