Tazewell High School

[Hacker 82]

I just could not see the great GMan cheering for a Mountaineer.

[Deleted Account 5,203]

Build one at the Divides, and the other at Pounding Mill. Call one East Tazewell and the other West Tazewell. Now all we have to fight over are team names and who coaches each team.

 

Geographically speaking, this isn't a bad choice. However, the terrain of the Divides is FAR too hilly to set a high school without massive land development. Pounding Mill, though, would be a great place for the other high school. I like Tazewell East and Tazewell West. Or, Clinch and Bluestone. Either would be swell.

 

Building two new schools = $Ms of dollars Tazewell County doesn't have. Sadly.

Especially when Tim Kaine's forcing Tazewell County schools to cut $4.5M from the budget as it is.

[CPF 414]

Geographically speaking, this isn't a bad choice. However, the terrain of the Divides is FAR too hilly to set a high school without massive land development. Pounding Mill, though, would be a great place for the other high school. I like Tazewell East and Tazewell West. Or, Clinch and Bluestone. Either would be swell.

 

Building two new schools = $Ms of dollars Tazewell County doesn't have. Sadly.

Especially when Tim Kaine's forcing Tazewell County schools to cut $4.5M from the budget as it is.

 

 

 

 

Any new high school would not go on the divides.......The TCSB already owns about 500 acres right across from Tim's BP station on Rt 460 just west of the old camp joy. Any new high school will be put there. And if they want to build a new school, the state can pitch in some of the funds with all that money that our lottery is supposed to bring the schools, but somehow never see.

[GMan 3,569]

Any new high school would not go on the divides.......The TCSB already owns about 500 acres right across from Tim's BP station on Rt 460 just west of the old camp joy. Any new high school will be put there. And if they want to build a new school, the state can pitch in some of the funds with all that money that our lottery is supposed to bring the schools, but somehow never see.

 

Are you sure the TCSB owns that property??? To the best of my knowledge that is the property that the County is planning on building a "technology park" on...although with the downturn in the economy, I seriously doubt many businesses are looking to build new facilities and relocate to Tazewell Co...

 

http://www.swvatoday.com/comments/plans_moving_forward_for_the_bluestone_technology_park/news/1172/

 

http://coalfield.virginiascan.yesvirginia.org/Site_Selection/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyid=235265

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_333152701.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_325205118.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_314195126.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_288165448.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_286205257.html

[CPF 414]

Are you sure the TCSB owns that property??? To the best of my knowledge that is the property that the County is planning on building a "technology park" on...although with the downturn in the economy, I seriously doubt many businesses are looking to build new facilities and relocate to Tazewell Co...

 

http://www.swvatoday.com/comments/plans_moving_forward_for_the_bluestone_technology_park/news/1172/

 

http://coalfield.virginiascan.yesvirginia.org/Site_Selection/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyid=235265

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_333152701.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_325205118.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_314195126.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_288165448.html

 

http://www.bdtonline.com/archivesearch/local_story_286205257.html

 

 

 

 

I was told from a man that lives right there that the original owners left the property to mountain mission school in Grundy. And somehow, the property ended up in the hands of the TCSB. And supposedly they are the owners of that tract of land as of right now. Could be wrong though...... I was told that in addition to the technology park, that about 100 acres was being saved for a new Graham high school in the future.

[Hacker 82]

Any new high school would not go on the divides.......The TCSB already owns about 500 acres right across from Tim's BP station on Rt 460 just west of the old camp joy. Any new high school will be put there. And if they want to build a new school, the state can pitch in some of the funds with all that money that our lottery is supposed to bring the schools, but somehow never see.

 

Don't you know the General Assembly's dirty little Lottery secret. Yeah lottery proceeds go to education, but our elected officials did not just add that to the funds going to education. They used the lottery funds to replace other general fund $$$ for schools so that they could have that money to spend on pet programs and pork. You can go back and look at the percentages of the state budget for education before and after the lottery was adopted and see very little change. Don't be fooled by total dollars being spent, the percentages tell the true story. All total funds increase due to inflation.

[trublue 939]

FYI......some of you may already know this but Georgia uses their lottery funds for the Hope scholarship. Had neighbors few years ago that moved (job transfer) from CA for their kids to take advantage of the GA Hope scholarship.

 

Following is an excerpt:

 

HOPE

 

"(Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally), created under the supervision of Georgia governor Zell Miller, is a state-financed merit-based scholarship program. Funded by lottery-ticket revenues, HOPE pays for four years of full tuition and fees, as well as a $300 per year book stipend, at a Georgia public university, college, or technical institution for students who graduate from a high school in the state with a 3.0, or "B," average. Students must maintain this average at the college level to retain the scholarship. (The scholarship pays up to $3,000 for students attending private schools.) As of 2006, more than $3 billion in HOPE funds had been awarded to more than 900,000 students."

 

 

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1483