I don't want to get political, but schools are terribly underfunded everywhere. Schools should be the number one social welfare outlet in the nation, (equality of opportunity not of results).
Rural schools have it rough because the state treats them in the same way they treat the suburban schools. They underfund them so much, then expect local government and levies to pick up the slack for improvements. The state has to look at individual needs.
1987chieftains wrote:it's sad and angering at the sametime that the folks in columbus and other bigger communatins think (generally) that the seo communities are dumber then a box of rocks. and we can't manage money for our schools. just b/c we are from seo doesn't mean we are stupid.
25 years ago i always remembered something and i've always remembered this. this is the mentalily of most in the bigger communities. 1986, logan was playing walnut ridge (in football) i at the time was 17 and being a kid we where walking around talking and we started talking to these girls from walnut. these girls thought we all should the saying, ya'll, yunto, dating our sisters and wearing bib overhauls. this is some of the things the big city ppl think when your talking about seo. as sad as it is, it is true. for the state to have to come in and dictate how a small seo district uses there money is bull!!!! the big city schools are no better off then we all are. i've kinda rambled a little but, i guess my piont is that just b/c your from a big area doesn't mean your smater. oh, by the way logan won 48 to 0.
When thinking about people from Lancaster and Columbus think of us as hicks, i just remember that people in New Jersey think Ohioans are hicks, people in New York City think that people in New Jersey are hicks, and people in Paris think that people in New York are pompous, arrogant hicks.
People in Logan think people in Nelsoville are hicks and people in Nelsonville think that people in Glouster are hicks. That's the way these things work, you make fun of the person who's next down the pike.
It works in reverse, though. The further up the totem pole you are the more likely it is that you're a hell bound @$$hole.