bringthewood wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:01 pm
If you think that GHS isn't interested in EXCELLENCE then you need to pay attention. GHS KNOWS excellence, and works for it.... every single day.
EHS.... the district is still trying to figure that out. They have a guy that knows how to win. The thinkers here didn't know/were not sure what EHS was going to be when it was formed. It's still been a middle school since they day it went to a HS. And still is.
96 was able to hold off the slow death of yarn mills closing better that most any other town. They did much better than Ware Shoals (which you don't include in your 'lack of excellence'). 96 is simply now having to deal with that dynamic.
Greenjewel if you think a government institution likes schools even cares about your child(ren) or grandchild(ren), then we need to talk. These are bureaucracies that only exist to make sure they further exist.
There are people inside that care and work really hard to make sure their constituents are served; but excellence?
There is another definition of that from those that are the decision makers.
What you are saying here is quite sensible, however, there are certain factors that change everything. For example, you said:
If you think that GHS isn't interested in EXCELLENCE then you need to pay attention. GHS KNOWS excellence, and works for it.... every single day.
Now, let's be honest, GHS can't hold a high school jamboree and get to the end of it; that is not excellence and it indicates a severe lack of overall excellence.
You also said:
96 was able to hold off the slow death of yarn mills closing better that most any other town. They did much better than Ware Shoals (which you don't include in your 'lack of excellence'). 96 is simply now having to deal with that dynamic.
The mill closings impoverishes many, many rural towns in the south, but 96 is not one of them, for a host of reasons. 96 wasn't dependent on the mill there for survival. It also has Fuji and Monsanto which are much bigger tax payers than the mills were. Another fact, the mill in 96 paid no city taxes, even though it was located in the middle of town. What is different about 96 is 3 things: 1- It's location- 96 lays in the corner of the county away from everything else, but not too far away, just 9 miles to greenwood.
2- It has a small but very well funded school system. Not that long ago the 96 schools were considered to be the bar for excellence anywhere, in both athletics and academics.
3- The houses there that Greenwood Mills built were built to last forever, and they probably will. The mill houses in 96 are just like those in Matthews, Harris, etc. Built like forts. In comparison Ware Shoals has poor, dilapidated housing of no worth.
Ware Shoals has nothing to attract people but 96 has everything to attract people if the community would have just used it. In 96 its all about the schools. When the schools there were great the price of housing was through the roof. My sister and law tried to buy a mill house there and the price was insane. She wanted to send her kids to school there. 96 reached it's peak athletically and academically after the mills had closed. The schools carried everything. They now are suffocated with debt where millions was spent foolishly. Their schools are bankrupt due to horrible financial decisions. Their schools are serving a hand full of adults instead of the kids now.
To a degree, Greenwood Hi and Emerald are doing the same. Just different folks.
