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Wow. Miss an over the back and then call a foul on the player that had just been climbed over who wasn’t even facing the rebounder?

Columbus playing football and the refs swallowing their whistles. 10-5 columbus mid first

yup.

Saw this explanation on another site and wanted to post it. Some of it echos @SmashMouth's excellent post yesterday. Cost to send a student to a private school: $10,000 Voucher given: $10,000 New cost to send a student to Private school: $15,000 All these poor inner-city kids stuck at under-performing public schools STILL won't be able to afford to go to a private school because the price was upped to keep them out. Those private schools don't want those high-risk kids coming in dragging down their scores. But all those schools just got a 5K raise per student without changing their demographics one iota. All these poor rural kids stuck at under-performing schools STILL won't be able to attend a private school not only because they can't afford it....but also because the closest one is 100 miles away. But those private schools also got a 5K raise per student without taking in any rural students. But now tax dollars are going to be given to parents that could already afford to send their kids to private school even without the vouchers. Welfare for the rich. Rewards for an already wealthy private school lobby. Things go unchanged at the underperforming schools.....but with less money to do it.

I lived in beaumont for 14 years, teaching for 10 of them, and taught there an additional 5 years after I moved to Fannett. I lived in the west end, about 5 minutes from West Brook, and worked at Bingman over by Ozen/United. it routinely took me 20-25 minutes to get to work and 30-35 minutes to get home. While I had to cross town, there are several bus routes that would be considerably longer than my daily commute. I also didn't have to stop and pick up 50+ kids. Your "typical bus ride" would just be the commute across town so that the route can START. The first kids picked up and the last kids dropped off dang sure would be looking at getting up ridiculously early or dropped off super later. Rest assured you'd be looking at some bus routes pushing 2 hours long. You also ignored ALL of the other disadvantages I listed. Apart from marginal improvements in a couple of sports, please list advantages of changing to just one high school.

you'd have kids having to wake up at 5 to catch the bus or not getting home until 6:00 in the evenings. it would not work. grades would suffer, test scores would suffer, and absenteeism and truancy would rise, all in the name of a better football team? You'd also be greatly decreasing the amount of opportunities for kids to participate in extracurriculars. Combine all of the sports, drill teams, cheer squads, UIL teams, and anything else you can think of, and you have half the spots and twice the kids. To be honest, just about the only thing that would legitimately benefit would be football, and maybe band, although I think there would be some marching band culture lost if you combined the two schools. Are we really doing this so that the new Timberbruins football team can go 7-4? The basketball teams have enough success separated.

just getting on here to post this. population may be similar, but transportation is nothing alike.

Beyond impractical. How many cities the size of Beaumont in Texas only have one high school? In population, but especially in area. It wouldn’t make sense to be bussing kids 30+ minutes (without even beginning to factor in stops) one way just to have better sports teams. Not mention having to build a new school, replace the staff that wouldn’t travel the extra distance, etc.

NFHS finished its quality night with me watching a soccer game that went to a shootout. The AI camera kept going back to focusing on a random ball on the field 40 yds from the action, so I only got to see 3 of the shootout shots 🤦🏻‍♂️

Great season

Pretty annoyed with NFHS tonight. No Brookeland feed, Texline/Jayton cut out mid-3rd and hasn’t come back. No idea who’s winning Hearn/Marlin because there’s no score shown and can’t hear the announcers.

Dang

Lipan was up 42-21 last I saw over new home, Texline up 21-17 at the half on Jayton

Heck yeah! I agonized on this one in pickems. I don’t at all mind losing it, but only if Brookeland pulls it out!

The other day there was a game showed delayed on NFHS but was playing on TL. Hoping that’s not the case tonight and it’s actually delayed

NFHS showing delayed. One pickem I hope I get wrong!

I don’t disagree with you. That said, it’s accepted and embraced in football. And while I get that the enrollment numbers can play a bigger role in football, I don’t hate some of the big city schools that find a way to be in lower divisions being split and giving small towns a better chance to succeed. We also had the opportunity for bridge city and Hamshire fannett to play to go to state, which was pretty fun. So I guess I have mixed feelings about it. I definitely have less of a problem with splitting than i do with 50% or more of the teams in most districts making the playoffs to begin with.

I'll never claim that every job lost should be cut, or that mistakes aren't made in haste. But you're really doing the whole democratic propaganda thing? Instead of focusing on whether or not the position is needed the left insists on bombarding us with sad sob stories about people laid off. in 2024 there were 20.3 MILLION employees laid off or discharged in the US. So can we quit pretending the left cares about laid off employees now? They're only upset that they're losing influence and programs to pour money into.

if you're gonna take it that far you might as well elaborate.

Maybe the younger Barrier wants this, but it's gotta be tough at that age being uprooted over and over. I know some of the friendships I made in high school are strong to this day, and those were four of the best years of my life. I can't imagine having to start over literally every year from 8th grade on.

It's Rigdon without the results at this point.

Summer Creek comes back from 18 down to beat Cedar Hill 52-49!

Ft. Worth Boswell 51 Ft. Bend Hightower 42

Lots of issues with it. Plenty of info out there, but I’ll just leave it at “I’m against it.”