Nobody wants to merge. The poorer district wants to keep their own HS and tradition, identity. The richer district doesn't want poor kids going to school with their kids. We all know this and that's why Western PA still has 1 school district per town and has so many small schools. Everyone wants their own school district. In the voice of Oprah, you get a school district, you get a school district.
OT: WPIAL HS Sports are a mess
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And even more impressive for a general population school!
One thing that people are missing, is that while bigger is better for the teams, plays, musicals, it isn’t necessarily better for the kids. Being able to get in the field, or stage, can do wonders for development. At the bigger schools, this limits these experiences to those who are extremely talented.
As an old ForbesField attendant, I'll tell you that way, way back in the 70's, when the top WPIAL category was still AA, the Altoona Mountain Lions were in the WPIAL. They apparently have come and gone several times.
Ferndale by chance? I’ll always have a soft spot for that school. Their football uniforms were worn by Ampipe in All The Right Moves, and I once dated a beautiful girl who went to school there. She was my Lisa Litsky.
It's not always NIMBY when it comes to this issue. I'm all for consolidation but at the same time, I wouldn't want my kids on a bus 30-40 minutes each way to go to another district. The logistics of mergers are difficult to manage.
I think these larger schools in the middle of nowheres should suck it up and buy charter jets to fly the team for games like Ridgemont High did for Jefferson.
Yeah, bigger schools don't always mean more course offerings in terms of electives. Some of the higher regarded schools have relatively disappointing offerings compared to smaller schools with fewer resources.
You'd think that people from this part of the country would understand what happens to areas where the big, dominant employer closes up shop and thousands of locals lose their jobs.
Big mistake moving to 6 classifications. Now we get teams with losing records in the playoffs.
Did State College ever leave? I know Hollidaysburg, Altoona and State College all entered as football-only in the early 2000’s, then Hollidaysburg left a few years later.
If I remember right, there was a particularly nasty incident at an Altoona/Harrisburg game around 2010-2011 that played a pretty big role in prompting Altoona to leave. Then they went to the WPIAL, were only there for a few years, before coming back to the Mid Penn again.
I also learned recently that Gettysburg was back in the Mid Penn after a few years in the York-Adams. Gettysburg always had one of the coolest stadiums to play in, so it’s great to see them back.
I answered that question. Our kids are getting a subpar education and have few academic options. Johnstown offers far more. It’s also the only school I see that would take us.
No, the other school on life support. But Ferndale should do the same.
D5 and D6 Single A football may be the worst high school football on the planet.
It is easy to blame a large regional employer when a group of communities is forced by the state to merge school districts (despite resistance from those communities involved) and it turns to shit. Interesting how other eastern communities not involved in the merger didn't turn from wealthy to shit in a generation. Try to take a bus (or a car) from Turtle creek, or Wilkins township to Edgewood primary school one morning and tell me how that works out for you. It is hard to force merge districts that are barely connected by roads and it takes an hour to get from one side to the other during rush hour. How can parents be involved with their kids at school and have a job?
Soufy, do you have an hour trek from your house to your son's school? No. And nobody should unless they are living in a very rural area. Surely shouldn't happen in a very urban area of Allegheny county that most people who do not know better assume is part of the city of Pittsburgh.
Central Catholic has a LOT of kids from the Woody High district because of all of the issues. When my kid was there, I was shocked at the numbers.
Kids are busses all over the city for magnet schools
Their bus rides have nothing to do with their parents helping with homework
That’s a terrible excuse
It is very easy when the school district functioned quite well prior to the large corporation breakup. Prepared us well for Amherst, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Pitt, CMU, MIT, Hopkins, etc AND put a shit ton of player into the NFL.
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Greensburg and Hempfield are still good size schools . It’s Jeannette that needs to merge with either Hempfield or Penn Trafford
How about Aliquippa, Hopewell and Central Valley? They all use an Aliquippa address 15001.
They should merge, but do the Quips want it to happen? If CV and Quips merge, then they could beat anyone in the state.
Crazy. Isn’t Central Valley the only team who beat the Quips last year and they too were state champs?
If you don't think that there are other eastern communities that turned from wealth to shit in a generation after the loss of the dominant employer in their area, well, like I said, someone from Western PA should know better. And the school districts didn't have anything at all to do with that.
I'm guessing that you actually do know better, but you are too emotional on the subject to admit it.
It is why I am hard on especially the local politicians and think our choices this year are worst than ever. Why can't we bring in big businesses again? Neighbors West Virginia and Ohio are doing it. Bringing in big companies with big paying, community building wages. Ours? We celebrate unionizing a Starbucks!
We need a Caligiuri. We need a Heinz. We need someone with some vision.
And as I said before, we celebrated stopping Amazon from bringing a big warehouse with all those attendant jobs to the area.
"Hooray! Now we won't have to deal with all the extra traffic from all those people coming to work at a place like that!"
"Hey, by the way, have you been able to find a good paying job yet or are you still workin down Giant Iggle n'at?"
Our local government is so corrupt, nothing gets done unless the politicians get a handout as part of the deal.
Bringing in a company like Amazon would have lowered their taxes as well.
And Amazon had no interest in coming here
But of course they wanted to pay no taxes as well - so I’m not seeing how that works -
Just like upmc and Highmark aren’t lowering taxes with far more employed
What are you talking about? They were working on a deal that eventually got scuttled because of all the local protestations over them not wanting the extra traffic in their area.
Officials had said taxes would have included between $600,000 and $660,000 annually in property taxes to Churchill, plus between $2.3 million and $2.5 million for Woodland Hills School District. Churchill is one of 12 municipalities within the district.
Adding that much extra tax revenue could have helped the community avoid tax hikes, Futules said, and would’ve served as a “shot in the arm” for their budgets.
Amazon's withdrawal from Churchill development met with mixed reactions
News that Amazon will not forge ahead with its plans to build a massive warehouse in Churchill was met with mixed reactions Friday. Amazon’s decision to nix the proposed 2.6-million square-foot warehouse, which was to be developed at the former site of the George Westinghouse Research Park, came...
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They absolutely did pull out at least in part due to local community reaction. You simply can't be naive enough to not understand that.
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