Burl. Cummings Question
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Wow what a sad question for a former football power with multiple state titles.
Crazy how this can happen....seeing this and whats been going on at schools like Albermarle and Thomasville its sad....i really wonder gow alumni and former players feel about whats happing to these schools football programs......if something like this ever happened at Clinton it would breal my heart
Insane that I am reading a thread asking if Burlington Cummings will even have a team. Just 10 years ago they were winning state titles and competing with the best in NC. So sad, yet it's the reality for many schools across NC incluidng Albemarle and Thomasville.
Albemarle could get consolidated and should because it makes sense for Stanly County to do that, could we see that in Davidson County too?
Albemarle could get consolidated and should because it makes sense for Stanly County to do that, could we see that in Davidson County too?
Lexington and Thomasville will only merge with Davidson County if the state forces it. Here are the two reasons.
First, the two city systems would lose a combined $16 million in revenue, primarily in federal funding. Those dollars are based mostly on percentage of free/reduced lunch students.
Secondly, Davidson County is dead last of 100 counties in per pupil expenditure. Our commissioners are too proud of the low tax rate to actually do anything about it.
In the meantime, we'll just keep on losing middle class families and resegregating the three school systems.
a lot of that resegregating going on in rockingham county for years. sad. two schools here six miles apart and ethnic makeup way out of kilter as one school is catered to over another
Don't mean to hijack a Cummings thread, but I noticed something today when looking at a Thomasville roster.
While there are two young assistants who played for him, for the first time since 1969, there isn't a coach on the roster who coached with Allen Brown. Guess the destruction is complete.
While there are two young assistants who played for him, for the first time since 1969, there isn't a coach on the roster who coached with Allen Brown. Guess the destruction is complete.
Rockingham isn't the only school effected by the Charter School. Kids from the whole county are enrolling in Middle School and now the HAS. They RC School system needs to have kids go in the district they live, enrolled in speciality programs Vs letting kids/parents choose. Tons of Kids are at RC that are a few miles or less from Reidsville. Reidsville catches the crap all the time for this and that. Reidsville had 10 kids accepted to UNC thus fall. A little less than 800 students.
Somewhat true ... but most will probably be from the Bethany district for convenience. (No bus transportation to Charters). Bunch of Rockingham High students who went to the Bethany Charter Middle instead of RC Middle. Those will now continue on as the grades are added.
Carolina has a minimum number of students that are accepted from each county in the state. Nearly impossible to be accepted at Carolina if you go to a high school in Wake County or Mecklenburg County unless you are in the top 5% of your class and have very high SAT or ACT scores. Other rural counties, not so hard to get accepted.
Being from Burlington I think the biggest problem with Cummings is when it was built, they and Walter Williams were in the city schools district. Cummings was located near Western Electric which was a big time defense employer in the 50's but a telephone mfg in the 70s-80's. The city school system merged with the Alamance County Schools. Western Electic shut down and all those folks of the 60's retired and their children moved on. Then the fact is Cumming High School is as the crow flies about 1 mile from Graham High. Graham is the county seat. It's a matter of numbers and geographics.
Back in the early 2000's, when I was teaching @ Cummings, there was a push for merging Cummings and Graham, mainly to the poor condition of Graham HS and the high cost of maint. If that would have panned out, it would have been great for both schools, but alas, the powers that be didn't make it happen.
I don't know the makeup of the students at Cummings but I am over there a lot and there are lots and lots of Hispanics in East Burlington. Drive down past the old Western Electric plant and check out all of the Hispanic businesses. I don't see many Hispanics on the football team
Looks like demographics might have doomed Cavs football. And is the same thing happening at Thomasville??
The growing Latino population has impacted Thomasville, but mostly in that it means that the Bulldogs are essentially "playing up" in football and basketball. But the primary concern has been the lack of support from the multiple administrations in the last four years. No support plus instability plus wavering community loyalty equals mediocrity at best.