Highlands has played all the NKY 6A schools recently and routinely beats them. There's a saying, hmmm something about a dog and a fight.

 

 

So do we.

This is a problem in Boone County. Some, but not all, powers that be in Boone County (meaning Boone County, Ryle, Conner, and now Cooper) do a lot of belly aching because T and X are so much bigger than them yet they keep building new schools. In other words, it is a choice (at least in Boone County).

 

I understand education is first and foremost and in Boone County they feel the need to keep building high schools but you can't have it both ways.

 

 

 

Cooper?

Would this mean we would have to deal with people spelling it Malenuel all the time? :lol:

 

:lol::lol::lol:

 

The Ram friends are in rare form today. :ylsuper: Thank you for trying to make a little humor in such a hostile arena! :lol::lol::lol::lol:

Then Trinity and X would just merge (TRIX) and regain their numerical advantage?

 

TRIX are for kids!

A Jefferson County School employee and I were discussing this last night. If you close Atherton, Iroquois,Western, Waggener, Moore and one other, you could average 1800 kids per school and since most buildings were built to accomodate 2000 or more students, the new superintendent could still try to achieve his goal of "20 kids per classroom". The teachers would still have their jobs. Some administrators might lose their positions. The savings would be awesome to Jefferson County tax payers.

 

Think back to the 70s when Trinity and St. X had roughly 700-900 boys. Southern was huge, with around 2500 students. Ballard was brand new and busting at the seems. Butler was competitive with more than 2000 students.

Atherton was competitive. Manual was until busing. Football was more balanced because the numbers were more fairly distributed.

 

I remember those days. Not to ask a dumb question by why has the numbers and competition changed so much in these schools?

My question is about all the schools...not Trinity.

I remember those days. Not to ask a dumb question by why has the numbers and competition changed so much in these schools?

 

I would wager that much of it has to do with the exodus out into the surrounding counties.

I would wager that much of it has to do with the exodus out into the surrounding counties.

 

Did privates schools cause this?

Did privates schools cause this?

 

Nope but we still benefit from some of those folks.

Cooper?

 

Yes, the the Cooper Jags, which is the newest Boone County high school set to open this fall.

 

I think one of the things that baffles me about all of this is why are they building new schools when they could just as easily, and probably for far less money, expand their current facilities and hire more teachers? That is what we have done and it has worked very well for us. It isn't the number of students in the school that makes the difference educationally it is the number of students to teachers.

 

I agree.

Just for clarification, everyone is in agreement that if all you do is throw more students at it, the Public High School Football programs will get better? Is that right?

Yel, but what neat names could we come up with in the consolidation of JCPS. I have too much time on my hands I guess, but let's see........

ManBal, MalePleasure, SouthBut, and CentralEastWest, just to name a few quick ones.

Yel, but what neat names could we come up with in the consolidation of JCPS. I have too much time on my hands I guess, but let's see........

ManBal, MalePleasure, SouthBut, and CentralEastWest, just to name a few quick ones.

 

Something tells me MalePleasure wouldn't go over so well...

 

So...many...jokes....can't...say them...:sssh:

A Jefferson County School employee and I were discussing this last night. If you close Atherton, Iroquois,Western, Waggener, Moore and one other, you could average 1800 kids per school and since most buildings were built to accomodate 2000 or more students, the new superintendent could still try to achieve his goal of "20 kids per classroom". The teachers would still have their jobs. Some administrators might lose their positions. The savings would be awesome to Jefferson County tax payers.

 

Think back to the 70s when Trinity and St. X had roughly 700-900 boys. Southern was huge, with around 2500 students. Ballard was brand new and busting at the seems. Butler was competitive with more than 2000 students.

Atherton was competitive. Manual was until busing. Football was more balanced because the numbers were more fairly distributed.

 

One thing that you forgot to add, even when X and Trinity didn't enjoy a student enrollment advantage they were still able to win consistantly.

 

I graduated from Southern in the late 70's. We had over 1800 students at the time and 80+ boys on the football team and yeat we couldn't compete on a regular basis with X and Trinity.

 

And FWIW I agree with what you said about closing some schools but we all know that will never happen.

One thing that you forgot to add, even when X and Trinity didn't enjoy a student enrollment advantage they were still able to win consistantly.

 

I graduated from Southern in the late 70's. We had over 1800 students at the time and 80+ boys on the football team and yeat we couldn't compete on a regular basis with X and Trinity.

To be fair they didn't compete because they didn't play.

 

I don't know the historical enrollment numbers of the respective schools but being X and T are all male they would only need 900 boys to be equal to a 1800 coed enrollment number.

How to even 6A? Take Trinity and St. Xavier and slice them both in half ... we would have all the parity we would ever need, and we could cut back to four or five classes.