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Seems like a mass exodus of coaches from over there ... What's up?
Please elaborate.
I don't know who all has left other than the boys basketball coach. Seems like they're looking for a handful of coaches. At least under the coaching search on Maxpreps.
I don't often respond, but I've watched this situation for a few years. I like to pull for the underdog, but South Davidson has gotten worse and worse. They run off anyone who seems to care. The community only cares that there is someone to criticize. I'm sure there are some good folks there, but they're being overshadowed...and then they leave.It’s a tough place to work. Really, its only going to be able to have success in some niche sports. Wrestling, Cross Country, maybe some individual track events.
It’s tough for many reasons... First off, that community is convinced that they are getting screwed in every possible way from every possible angle. Some of the de facto leaders in that community “want want want” and when the time comes... surprise... They’ve moved their kid to Graystone Day to swim. They’ve got nice facilities, and the town of Denton loves their Wildcats... Problem is, there just aren’t enough opportunities for people to live and work down there.
Football... they suck. It’s nothing new. It isn’t a “sign of the times”. They were terrible when Burlington Industries was going full steam and they had over 500 kids.
The numbers there continue to dwindle. I don’t know that it is even sustainable. Perhaps its best to abandon the campus and move their kids to East and Central Davidson.
I don't often respond, but I've watched this situation for a few years. I like to pull for the underdog, but South Davidson has gotten worse and worse. They run off anyone who seems to care. The community only cares that there is someone to criticize. I'm sure there are some good folks there, but they're being overshadowed...and then they leave.
That is kind of true and we have all heard of what goes on in Davidson county and in the southern end of that county.Who wants to live in such a narrow minded place these days? What people in areas like Denton, Wilkes, parts of Surry, Yadkin, Rowan, etc. don't realize is when kids leave they don't come back. There is nothing to come back to. These kids are going to go to places with opportunity and areas that embrace diversity.
Who wants to live in such a narrow minded place these days? What people in areas like Denton, Wilkes, parts of Surry, Yadkin, Rowan, etc. don't realize is when kids leave they don't come back. There is nothing to come back to. These kids are going to go to places with opportunity and areas that embrace diversity.
That's how those said commissioners stay in power. Voters in counties like that are convinced education is bad.
No, they are convinced that any increase in taxes is bad, and unfortunately as the cost of living rises, so do expenses for school budgets.
No, they are convinced that any increase in taxes is bad, and unfortunately as the cost of living rises, so do expenses for school budgets.
You hit the nail right on the head! If it weren’t for the community cultures that most of the schools enjoy, along with the extra cash that many of the parents in the northern Davidson County schools can inject into various projects, it would kill us.
For example, every bit of the athletic complex at North Davidson High School was paid for by the booster club. Every. Single. Bit. Well, that’s not entirely true, the commissioners chipped in a bit for the initial construction of the tennis courts so that the community could use them during off-time periods. But all of it! Even the land was purchased by them as well.
I don’t begrudge schools systems that do a better job funding programs. I think it is great that Forsyth County chose to fund the new home stands for Glenn and Mt Tabor. You’ll never see the commissioners put up any extra money like that in Davidson.
Merger with redistricting, with the per pupil rate brought to the level of the highest system of the three (Lexington). I hate it, but that’s the answer. But it won’t happen.
So who would get the most of their kids? That would be a fun what if to see.
There are more students inside the Thomasville city limits that are assigned to Davidson County schools than to Thomasville City Schools. There are kids who literally can step across their property line and be standing on the property of Thomasville Primary School, but they are assigned to a county school several miles away. Realistically, most of them should attend Thomasville. In every city school system in North Carolina besides Thomasville, the school district lines and the city limits lines are the same (except Lexington whose school district is larger than the city limits). But there obviously would be a ripple effect if there were ever redistricting. But all of that is moot, because the politics of it will keep it from happening.So who would get the most of their kids? That would be a fun what if to see.
There are more students inside the Thomasville city limits that are assigned to Davidson County schools than to Thomasville City Schools. There are kids who literally can step across their property line and be standing on the property of Thomasville Primary School, but they are assigned to a county school several miles away. Realistically, most of them should attend Thomasville. In every city school system in North Carolina besides Thomasville, the school district lines and the city limits lines are the same (except Lexington whose school district is larger than the city limits). But there obviously would be a ripple effect if there were ever redistricting. But all of that is moot, because the politics of it will keep it from happening.
There are reasons counties like Davidson, Iredell, and Rowan have so many openings each year. Teachers can go to neighboring metro counties and get paid more when better funded schools.
Part of this funding issue also falls on the state. The state tries to put too much on counties. Idk how some eastern and western school systems survive.
Of course not all those are teaching openings but that's still quiet a bit.