Stay Together For The Kids: Part 3
I've known this for a little while now but I just got around to finally posting it. On September 11th the Ohio Board of Education voted 14-3 to approve a feasibility study recommending that the Switzerland of Ohio Local School District not deconsolidate.
The study essentially lists many reasons why deconsolidation would be both more expensive and less efficient.
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I went back and read your previous posts on this subject. I remembered that I had commented on one and I reread the comments and your response.
If I can infer from your posts, you think the end result is good. The school district won't deconsolidate (won't split).
Congratualtions. You may have played a part in raising the attention to the issue at hand. I'm not always a fan of consolidated power, but from your descriptions of the school district, I think I agree with you (in this case). My wife is a special ed teacher and too-small districts lose a lot of economies of scale reaching the kids that she works with. Poorer areas lose way too much.
I'm pleased with the result but I doubt that the people on the other side of this issue will let it die. They actually tried for this a few years ago and got shot down and no one even knew they were trying it again until it was too late for public participation (so I didn't have much to do with it) until the state approved it.
The deconsolidation idea was very poorly planned and didn't really have a chance. The plan would have created three new districts out of one that already has consistently dropping enrollment. One of these districts would have been the smallest district in the state, while the other two would have needed financial support from the state.
The real problem here was that while the feasibility study was being conducted other, more important issues had to be put on hold.
The only way to keep this out is to change the elected officials involved.
Be it the school district or the legislation, someone has to be held accountable. They've shown you they are not to be trusted.
Oddly enough, in a presidential election some years ago (I won't say which one) a large percentage of voters who voted for a particular candidate said they didn't trust him to tell the truth. I'll never understand why they voted for him.
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