Northwest Ohio Realignment

That would be a really bad idea. You're from Lucas Co. I believe (Maumee fan), Here are the school districts in Lucas Co: Anthony Wayne, Evergreen, Maumee, Oregon, Otsego, Ottawa Hills, Springfield, Swanton, Sylvania, Toledo Public and Washington Local. Could you imagine having high income schools (Ottawa Hills, Sylvania NV and SV) share revenue / staffing with the TPS Schools? The residents who pay the higher property / school taxes would flip out. Also running schools the size of Whitmer or Start vs Maumee, Ottawa Hills or any other smaller schools is completely different in staffing and equipment means. Same with the needs of the kids in inner city schools versus those in the rural areas.
I guess if you did do a county district, you could more effectively share that revenue, taxes would be more static, and you would be able to manage class sizes/school sizes so everything ends up equal...but yeah, I think we are WAY too far down the rabbit hole to switch the entire style of administration for K-12 Education in the State at this point.
 
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Just for clarification Swanson and evergreen are Fulton county and otsego is wood county

But all 3 get some students from Lucas County.

Another example of why county wide districts probably don't work. What to do with multi county districts? Otsego actually is in Wood, Lucas, AND Henry, with the bulk in Wood. Would they end up shrinking? 3 different administrations trying to run one school? County lines are dumb ways to decide things.

I'd have no problem if 2 neighboring districts pooled resources, but leave arbitrary county lines out of it.
 
But all 3 get some students from Lucas County.

Another example of why county wide districts probably don't work. What to do with multi county districts? Otsego actually is in Wood, Lucas, AND Henry, with the bulk in Wood. Would they end up shrinking? 3 different administrations trying to run one school? County lines are dumb ways to decide things.

I'd have no problem if 2 neighboring districts pooled resources, but leave arbitrary county lines out of it.
I thought anything across the river was Anthony Wayne SD. I learn something new.
 
Ohio? I seem to recall our schools are financed by local taxes. Local decision. You socialists lol (every post has to include that accusation, it's a new Yappi rule) intent on inflating your olentangy real estate investments can take a flying leap. The less state involvement, the better. Look how bloated ODE has become and what services do they actually provide? You think the 88 agencies you just created (because community admin is NEVER going away) is going to be MORE efficient?
Not to disagree with all of your points but very large potion of schools are funded is from the state and even bigger portion of state dollars are used to build new school buildings. I am fine with the state getting completely out of school funding (no chance that happening) but since they are they should also have some say in how the money is spent.
 
I thought anything across the river was Anthony Wayne SD. I learn something new.

Best I could do was a screenshot, but yeah. Southwest Providence Township is Otsego territory. Probably not many kids, but...
 

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Not to disagree with all of your points but very large potion of schools are funded is from the state and even bigger portion of state dollars are used to build new school buildings. I am fine with the state getting completely out of school funding (no chance that happening) but since they are they should also have some say in how the money is spent.

and where did the state get the money that they send back to the local school districts (after taking massive overhead)? I covered that. But more to the point, we agree. Less state the better.
 
Best I could do was a screenshot, but yeah. Southwest Providence Township is Otsego territory. Probably not many kids, but...
AW's random little Wood County nub always confuses me lol.

If we're talking about weird district boundaries, I still love that there are people who literally walk out their front door in the morning and stare directly across the street and see Ottawa Hills HS...then they get in their car and drive to class at Whitmer HS.
 
That would be a really bad idea. You're from Lucas Co. I believe (Maumee fan), Here are the school districts in Lucas Co: Anthony Wayne, Evergreen, Maumee, Oregon, Otsego, Ottawa Hills, Springfield, Swanton, Sylvania, Toledo Public and Washington Local. Could you imagine having high income schools (Ottawa Hills, Sylvania NV and SV) share revenue / staffing with the TPS Schools? The residents who pay the higher property / school taxes would flip out. Also running schools the size of Whitmer or Start vs Maumee, Ottawa Hills or any other smaller schools is completely different in staffing and equipment means. Same with the needs of the kids in inner city schools versus those in the rural areas.
OR...you could split the counties in territories depending how they are geographically set up (only including public schools) like North Carolina does? Eastern Lucas HS, Western Lucas HS, Northern Mercer HS, Southern Mercer HS (could you imaging the powerhouse if that were to happen?).
 
OR...you could split the counties in territories depending how they are geographically set up (only including public schools) like North Carolina does? Eastern Lucas HS, Western Lucas HS, Northern Mercer HS, Southern Mercer HS (could you imaging the powerhouse if that were to happen?).

The rest of the state would be doing that as well. An E. Cuyahoga with a combined Mentor-Kirtland and of course budding national power MAC would be tough to over powerhouse.
 
The farther you get the education process away from the local communities, the worse it will be. Not saying there isn't room for some consolidation of schools and services, but there is a reason most small schools academically out perform larger schools. Parent and local involvement is an important part of a good school district.
 
The farther you get the education process away from the local communities, the worse it will be. Not saying there isn't room for some consolidation of schools and services, but there is a reason most small schools academically out perform larger schools. Parent and local involvement is an important part of a good school district.
I don't think that would change at all to be honest. But I agree on the consolidation part, Ohio needs to draw a line in the sand with minimum enrollments. The infrastructure costs are absurd to fund these tiny schools and the offerings when it comes to extracurriculars is dwarfed by those in the suburbs. In my opinion no school should be smaller than D5 in this state. Growing up they could've easily combined us with Lakota or Woodmore
 
Heavens, no! You are going to bus kids 30 miles to school all over the state?
Living in North Carolina now and this is ALL we have in any rural area. It's so weird to see. There are maybe 2-3 schools per county out here and they're all East (county), West (county), etc.
 
OR...you could split the counties in territories depending how they are geographically set up (only including public schools) like North Carolina does? Eastern Lucas HS, Western Lucas HS, Northern Mercer HS, Southern Mercer HS (could you imaging the powerhouse if that were to happen?).
I hate the way that's done tbh. I'm in eastern NC now and there's no identity with any of these districts. Just North, South, East, and West for every county out here.
 
As per the Sandusky Register, New London is going to 8-man ball in 2021. This is crummy news for the NL community for sure.

Look for Willard to fall all over themselves to fill the gap NL leaves behind in the Firelands Conference.

Inb4 Strack.
 
As per the Sandusky Register, New London is going to 8-man ball in 2021. This is crummy news for the NL community for sure.

Look for Willard to fall all over themselves to fill the gap NL leaves behind in the Firelands Conference.

Inb4 Strack.
New London did not leave the conference and they plan to return to 11-man football next year.
 
All those thinking there is going to be some massive reduction in overall costs with consolidation, make yourself useful and look up the salary for the Principal of let's say, Vanlue.

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It's noticeable how low those salaries are though for teachers. If you look, it's astonishing how high salaries are at some other schools like Eastwood. They many teachers pulling down $70K+ with quite a few even above $80K. I'm certainly not against paying teachers, but the downside to completely unionized employees are that small schools with many high seniority teachers are very costly.

That's why things like vouchers are something the state wants to allow, it's one way to offset high teacher salaries by giving that funding to a private school who can eat some of that salary.
 
That would be due to a higher percentage of kids in the school being born into a married 2 parent household. Which of course those type of parents are more involved in the school system.

Or the number of really smart kids who are potential "curve wreckers" is relatively small...
 
That would be due to a higher percentage of kids in the school being born into a married 2 parent household. Which of course those type of parents are more involved in the school system.
Parents being more involved in the school system does not make their children more successful.

Parents being more involved with their children makes their children more successful.
 
Parents being more involved in the school system does not make their children more successful.

Parents being more involved with their children makes their children more successful.
I do understand that some teachers, coaches, admins wish parents didn't exist and there were no eyes on their work. So I get yur persepctive here. But disagree. Parents involved in the system do "make" their children more successful. And that is part of being involved with their children These are not mutually exclusive.

A parent that becomes involved with the system; takes time to work with their kids' teachers, counselors, .... learns sooner about any difficulties their kid might be having and can work together on corrective action. They learn, which teachers if any are the hand out the worksheet, read a book, auto-pass to keep the kids/parents quiet type. That parent is more aware what programs and extra-curriculars are available. Even the kid knwing there are eyes on, will put in more effort, less clowning. Parent involvement keeps the system from slacking. A parent being more involved in the school system is doing someting that makes their kids more successful.
 
I do understand that some teachers, coaches, admins wish parents didn't exist and there were no eyes on their work. So I get yur persepctive here. But disagree. Parents involved in the system do "make" their children more successful. And that is part of being involved with their children These are not mutually exclusive.

A parent that becomes involved with the system; takes time to work with their kids' teachers, counselors, .... learns sooner about any difficulties their kid might be having and can work together on corrective action. They learn, which teachers if any are the hand out the worksheet, read a book, auto-pass to keep the kids/parents quiet type. That parent is more aware what programs and extra-curriculars are available. Even the kid knwing there are eyes on, will put in more effort, less clowning. Parent involvement keeps the system from slacking. A parent being more involved in the school system is doing someting that makes their kids more successful.
Helicopter parents are not a good thing.
 
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