I am Winston-Salem so do not know much about Washington Co. HS. But I know Plymouth HS was very good in football. Is the current school not very good at football? Seems like consolidating would actually help. You would have gotten all the best Plymouth HS players and the few decent Creswell HS players into one team that should be even better, one would think.
Is there a reason the county and state will not pay to improve the facilities at Murphy HS?
Well, when you put 100 and 0 together, you end up with a 50. That's exactly what Washington County has ended up being. An average football team.
The General Assembly's stance on public school (and community colleges) capital is that it's the responsibility of the local government. There are 3 separate funds set up now within the lottery appropriations to help address the significant need across the State for public school capital (roughly $12.8 billion now) so that's a start. But when there was $395 million available in this grant cycle for the needs-based grant fund, and there were 176 applications from 76 school districts in 70 counties that totaled over $2.7 billion, you quickly realize this is going to be a slow process. The County can submit an application for R&R funds to improve Murphy High if that is the desire of all parties involved, and I would venture to guess that the application would be approved. I haven't seen all of the applications that were submitted for the needs-based grant, but with regards to the Cherokee County application I know there were a few reasons why funds weren't awarded. There's more I will add later but for now have to wait until it's made public.
It did not rain today. It must be Biden's fault. Has to be. Just has to be.
i wonder why that is
