I am comparing the way the County Commissioners handled it to the way the City Council handled it, in politics only. Earnhardt said the County Commissioners politicized it and I do not disagree with that at all but I was saying the City Council has now done the same with the majority of them being in favor of the Plans (particularly Plan A actually) but now that they see this probably hurt them politically or could hurt them they are asking for a referendum. They are asking for one, so pass or fail, they can come out looking good - If a majority votes it down, they say hey we were in favor of the plan to start with, if it passes, they say hey, we helped to get 2 new schools built.
As for the western part of the county dedicating what happens, in looking at the address' of all the candidates that filed this time, only see 1 address that is from the western end of the county, so maybe the next board, will not be as focused on the western ends voices as some previous boards have been.
As for a short time for Plan A and B coming up, that is not true - The 5 that are coming off this next year, would have been on the board for 2 years already when this came up. Only 2 came on last year, and 1 of them, actually was on the board, filling out the term of a board member that had to step down, so actually 6 of the 7 have been on board decent amount of time before the Plans came up. The board is who asked the Superintendent to look into creating the plans, not the other way around. So again if they are the ones that want these plans, and have fought tooth and nail against any group or person that has tried to talk to them, that these are the best and only plans, then why not stick it out and see how it works out.
As for saying 2 schools brings more classes and offerings, that maybe true, but does not mean its a better education. If so, why are Anson and Richmond County schools (1 school counties) not the diamond jewel of education?? Some of the best schools are in the middle of Union County and Wake County with multiple other high schools around them, and they have kids begging to come there. In business, sports and life I think one of the best way to get better is to create competition, to make the others step up there game. I have thought all along, let the 4 high schools each offer the basic high school classes that you have to have, but then make them all different, as far as a trade school at one, a performing arts school at one, an agriculture school, etc, and let the kids themselves decide which school they want to go to. Then you have schools competing to get kids to come to them, thus forcing the schools to step up and to stand out. If schools know that a kid in their district has to come there until he/she is 16, what forces them to do things any better then the bare minimum?