It's 10 minutes from Mendenhall to Magee, so you're adding very little, if any, bus time. The school will only be 6A, so it definitely won't be too big. So, nothing wrong with creating it. Just no real need in my opinion. Neighboring Smith and Covington counties need consolidation a lot more than Simpson does. But dang, won't the new Simpson County school be a football power? I see them immediately right there with West Jones, Picayune, Hattiesburg and Pascagoula as south state contenders year in and year out.
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Yes its only 10 minutes between the towns of Mendenhall and Magee.....but much further for those living in communities on the east side of the county especially by bus.
Football wise, the athletics would be formidable but as you said there is no real need to consolidate.
This is the craziest position you take. First, the money to pay for the job comes from other residents. If your position made sense the right response would be to make everyone a school administrator. Suddenly full employment with high paying jobs.
But to the extent you want to keep spending the money just to have government jobs, you still want those jobs to be doing something useful. You could probably have two policemen for every administrator you release or two more teachers to have smaller classes. Or just pick ten stem teachers to give another $15k per year to get better qualified candidates that presumably could go get higher paying jobs because of their background.
K-12 public education career paths. teach->retire->consult with the district / teach->admin->retire->consult with the district / admin->retire->consult with the district Madison County, which has plenty of money, has way too many administrators in schools and at Central Office. JPS, which does not have money, still has a gazillion admins at Central Office and they go there as soon as they can possibly manage to get out of a classroom/school.
You clearly do not have any idea what "jobs" these admins do. They primarily make a decent, by public school standards, salary to exist. If they provided educational value, I'd agree with you. When it comes to these superintendents overseeing a relative handful of students, it is simply waste to pay them 6 figures to do so. The job could easily be handled by one person in most counties, as it pertains to county schools, and it should be handled by one person.
I know some schools across the country have gotten sued for utilizing pro/college trademarked logos, but I think it's cool.
Funny, didn't realize this is Tupelo's logo. It's what immediately stuck out in that map
Some that stick out:
Duke (Tunica Aca, Pearl River Cent., Booneville)
USM (Horn Lake, Eupora, Falkner)
West Virginia (Water Valley)
Georgia/Green Bay "G" (Grenada, Gulfport, Newton Aca.)
Miami "U" (Union HS)
State M over S (St. Martin)
Wisconsin "W" (West Marion, Wesson)
Notre Dame (North Delta)
Colonel Reb (Several)
Jax Jaquars (One in Bolivar and then Holmes Central)
Texas Longhorn (Manchester Aca.)
Atlanta Falcons (Velma Jackson)
UNC (Neshoba Cent.)
LA Dodgers (Leake Aca.)
What do they do? You seem to know. Why are they so worthless? Why did they ever get paid that much to begin with?
I’m asking questions here, but no one will answer them. Just trying to come at the messenger and tell me that I don’t know.
I just can’t imagine that these jobs were created and kept for no real reason at all. Maybe some are political connections, but most are not. Again, it’s just not a huge thing to go after and make any real headway.
People with kids in school just like to bltch about every aspect of school in general, because they think they know everything about it. Similar to criticizing coaches. That’s what it is, honestly. I’m sure if I looked hard enough, I could find a lot of y’all’s jobs that someone would think doesn’t need to exist. Schools are just at the forefront.
If you have a trademarked logo, you have to defend that trademark from infringement or lose it. That's what causes the cease-and-desist letters. Schools can then enter agreements to license the logos if they want to.
Yep, they use Colonel Reb for the Thrasher Rebels, but I thought Hickory Flat had a more cartoony one.
The Texas Longhorn is the Manchester Academy Mavericks in Yazoo County.
Fun fact: Kossuth, the high school I graduated from, had the exact same logo, but it was maroon and our team name was the Aggies. The University of Texas sent the school district a cease and desist shortly after Kossuth won the state championship in baseball in 2016. Pretty sure Manchester's continued use is evidence that it was the 'Aggies' part of the equation and notsomuch the silhouette itself.
Supposedly Kansas State allows schools to use their wildcat logo as long as the colors aren’t red and blue. Now that is petty.
So they’re moving?
Listed by the realtor as a school that closed:
Tom Smith Land and Homes
tomsmithlandandhomes.com
Reminds me of the story of the kindergartener who refuses to color a Jayhawk for a class assignment:
Kindergarten K-State fan refuses to color Jayhawk mascot despite teacher’s ire
5-year-old Emma Burton of Olathe, Kansas refused to participate in a class coloring assignment when she and her classmates were told to color in a Jayhawk, the mascot of the University of Kansas. The coloring exercise was part of the kindergarten class' celebration of the state of Kansas...
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Because superintendents run their fiefdoms and offer up do nothing jobs for people. They typically involve being a “specialist” in some subject area or an assistant something other to some primary position that we already have too many of.
Interesting, I'll have to follow up with my Raymond-based badged source...So they’re moving?
Listed by the realtor as a school that closed:
Tom Smith Land and Homes
Boise State holds a trademark on blue turf fields, but they've also expanded that to non-green turf fields. They licensed some other schools to use non-green fields, but at least one was challenging them on expanding it beyond blue.
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