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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 2/24/2009 10:51:00 AM

If you have a 20 year old phone book look in the - Washington state of - section. Then look in the same section in your 2008 book. That will prove why we are in this miss of shutting down schools.

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Posted 2/24/2009 11:01:00 AM

What do you think has been happening in the B's for many years. It is a natural progression, the unfortunate part is the current state of our economy has everything being scrutinized.... Including schools. So, yes this will be looked at. Hard times means hard decisions. Does it mean 2 hour bus rides? I don't know... But, what do you think will happen if that school has to close it doors anyhow for lack of funding? Then everybody will be crying that the Governor should have addressed the issue sooner!

Tekoa-Oaksdale, St John-Endicott, Garfield-Palouse are all schools that have consolidated... And if you look into the Whitman county history, you will find that this is nothing new... Remember, at one time there were 16 schools in the county! Now how many are there? Where did they go? What do think happened? Consolidation, thats what!
Now, add in all the sports consolidations? Do you think that financial considerations were not taken into account when ACH, SH, WP, TOR, LR, LW all decided to combine for sports??? Come on gang, to me this is good goverment in action... They are looking at the possibility of consolidation. They are not ducking there heads in the sand, nor doing this behind closed doors.

Oh, and I voted for her... And would do so again...

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Posted 2/24/2009 1:32:00 PM

Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

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Posted 2/24/2009 2:20:00 PM

At one time in Whitman County, there were a lot more than 16 schools. There were hundreds if you count all the one-room schools.

And Tekoa and Oakesdale are still separate school districts, only combining for sports. By my count there were 26 four year high schools at one time or another in Whitman County. And almost all of the Whitman County schools that have consolidated were much smaller than 150 students in the 12 grades. Most were well below 100, if not well below 75 in 12 grades. And they were close enough to other schools. A school like Skykomish, for instance (OK, I know Skykomish is in King County!

) would have to go another 28 miles to Sultan to school. I'm not sure how good that would be for business. If two small schools combined together, that's one thing. But a school like Colton would have no place to go but Pullman. Pullman's superintendant has come right out and said they have no room and no money for the infrastructure it would take to accomodate other schools (presumably talking about Colton).

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Posted 2/24/2009 3:15:00 PM

I for one would like the Gov to start staying out of my life, there is very little that the Government or the Govenor does very well except screw things up. Let the local communities decide when it is time to combine schools. They are our schools, and our tax money that operates them. The more local, the better the decisions to be made!
And by the way all these schools that have combined in one way or another did so without the state of washington telling them they had to or else. JMHO

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Posted 2/24/2009 3:19:00 PM

I gotta agree with Gold Ball: Keep the Governor (and the government) out of my life!!! I have never cared for the arrogance of "We the government know how to make your life better and you don't!!) The heck they do!!!!! As far as I'm concerned the government can't slap their rear ends with both hands OR pour pee out of a boot with the directions on the heel.

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 3/7/2009 12:17:00 PM

What happened to our Gov. campain slogan of understanding rural Eastern Washington??? Then why doesn't she understand how some schools could have enrollments under 150. She obviously doesn't understand community pride. I grew up in Republic when I was in school there was talk for awhile about combining Republic with Curlew. Did it ever happen, no, because of community pride. Now I'm a single parent. I settled in the BI-Count because I wanted my daughters to not have the influences that come along with large school populations. I also wanted them to have the opportunitiy I did to be involved with anything that interested them, from sports....playing 3 if they wanted to, FFA , whatever. When my oldest daughter turned out for softball in 8th grade she wasn't even sure what hand the mit went on. 5 years laters she recieved a 1/2 ride to a C.C. would that opportunity have even happened at a 1A school?? Not so sure. Will consoldiation hurt the B's... Not really it will just mean less of them and more 1A's. Combine Davenport/Harrington...1A. Send Sprague/lamont 15 miles down I-90 to Ritzville...1A, add Lind in for Sports and you might even slip up to 2A. What do you do with Odessa, combine them with Wilson Creek?? But hey Gov. heres a thought, if it's good for us, then lets take a look at Cheney and Medical lake. There only 10 miles apart. Or how about the Colville/Kettle falls consolidated school district. that only 12 miles. If it's good for us isn't it good for all????

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Posted 3/7/2009 12:34:00 PM

Just some clarification to the overall very good point: Sprague is 23 miles from Ritzville and with the students that would go that way, the Broncos would still be 2B, not 2A. Remember, Lind-Ritzville is 2B now and a consolidation would only take some of the kids from Sprague, so still 2B. (because of the proximity to other schools in the area at different directions and locations)

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 9:04:00 AM

We are getting very close to the end of sessions..."special sessions" may be called. Any word on schools with less than 150 students in k-12?

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 10:05:00 AM

"Come on gang, to me this is good goverment in action" Now that's an oxymoron if I have ever seen one. Sorry, but in my humble opinion there just isn't anything such as "good government" that comes out of an Olympia/Seattle/Tacoma mentality.

Like a previous post on here so aptly said let us decide ourselves if we need to consolidate......................

I know it isn't all as easy as this sounds, but leave us the heck alone Seattle/Olympia/Tacoma!!!!

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 10:14:00 AM

Ha ha. "Well them thar city slickers a closen our schools and a take'n our money! Why, I ought'a drive over on that thar free way and give'm a piece of my mind."

Populist rage is all the rage. LOL, it's like watching 'Hee Haw' and 'Road Warrior' at the same time.

You know, IF you want to keep your B1 school open and not consolidate then just fully fund it locally. Simple answer right there, call the WA Board of Education and tell them that you'll just raise your own property taxes and such and refuse any and all State and Federal dollars. Sucky thing about democracy don't ya know, sometimes if there's more of them others get their way.

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 10:54:00 AM

That would affect kalotus, wilson creek, and a few schools.. How do i find out what schools enrollement from k to 12, or is it 1 to 12. I am thinking even colton would be affected

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 11:03:00 AM

This is a sad thing, but this has happened in other states.. Their was a true life movie about a great baseball program in a town called Nebraska, forgot the state, but i think its Illinois. The school got gobbled up by a larger district,it destroyed the community pride.

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 11:06:00 AM

The forced consolidation would change the numbers on classifications enrollments, I would think.. I am having a bad day, better get off to Costco in Clarkson.. see you all later

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 11:08:00 AM

Colton's options would be either Pullman or Clarkston or a split between the two.

Colfax and Pullman by economics and educational opportunity should have combined years ago. That won't be popular in Colfax and enrolment numbers won't likely force it but it would make financial sense. It is sad that small schools are to become a thing of the past but it was sad when when local non-chain stores closed on main streets, drive in movies melted away and true drive ins vanished. Times change and this is inevitable. In return you get a better education, or at least the potential for better education, and while your taxes won't go down it will mean that there will need to be less increases in the future.

News Flash: combining smaller inefficient schools IS conservative economics.

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 11:11:00 AM

What does the education administrators across the state think?

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 12:01:00 PM

The movie is The Final Season. This one hits very close to home on this exact situation.

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 4/27/2009 12:13:00 PM

"News Flash: combining smaller inefficient schools IS conservative economics." col-pul.

Yeah, and liberal econimics is to combine and call them "Alternative..."

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 5/29/2009 6:15:00 PM

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090529/news/305299993

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RE: Small schools on the chopping block???
Posted 6/5/2009 8:23:00 AM

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Great article as it doesn't show full consolidation but Districts willing to help each other out cutting costs back..

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