CPS transfer issues
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First off fellas, I'd like to thank a select few posters being the shining examples for the many many kids who meticulously read word on every post on these boards. I was brought to this thread by a group of HS students who I overheard laughing hysterically in the high school hallway at a group of grown men accusing each other of being racist a-holes and comparing county tax statistics on a thread discussing CPS eligibility issues. Famers? Bolingbrook crack whores? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS ARGUING ABOUT?? This thread was started with good intentions discussing a common issue with HS students, eligibility, and the magical blanket term that is "financial hardships" and some people have turned it into an embarrassing circus. I rarely ever post and usually always enjoy the circus when it's filled with hilarious hot takes and hypothetical debates, but I'm disappointed I was brought here by HS students saying I NEEDED to read this thread. Don't forget you guys aren't the only ones reading these things, guys. Be better.
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Dont you dare flush it edgy, this is the thread that keeps on giving... isn't that what the holidays are about?
If we didn't fight, argue, and call each other names- this board would be far less entertaining and the participation rate would drop. Now the HS kids know where to find a crack ***** and a good ear of corn. We are doing them a service.
At first I said his post was good and it is. But why does he have to speak for them? They could come here themselves. Maybe it's fake news.
This whole string has gone stupid. However, I can personally attest to the first class 70's & early 80's facilities at Herscher, having played on them in the early 80's. They were shiny, new & everyone's envy around Kankakee; their stadium was the first in the old RVC with an all-weather track, so I ran so many meets there it started feeling like home. But you also need to remember that Herscher & McNamara were the 600+ student gorilla schools in a conference with nobody else bigger than 400 kids...and several less than 300...Herscher had three junior highs (HJH, Bonfield & Limestone) forever, and a fourth (Reddick) for a short time after RUCE disbanded & split up between Herscher & Reed Custer....But the enrollment has dropped from 700 students to like 540 this year, and down to two middle schools.
Rural communities live and die with their school, which is why consolidation is so painful in small towns. There are now like seven towns who feed into HHS. Farmers may hate paying taxes, but they like nice schools for their kids. Districts which the state basically forced to consolidate after World War II got significant incentives & grants to build nice high schools, many of which are still in use (some still as high schools, some as junior high/middle schools). And many built new gym additions in the late '70s & '80s to keep up with the neighbors and to provide safer facilities (more distance between the end line & wall, for example) or eliminate asbestos and to provide the space for girls sports. Herscher built gym additions at HHS & Limestone in the late 70's/early 80's...I'm still trying to figure out why rubber gym floors were so popular in the early 80's junior highs...
Herscher is a particularly good example of small town support for the school district. The land for their stadium & outdoor facilities was donated to them by the only child of a long time farming family, the Seebachs. The only child not only farmed, but was the janitor at HHS forever. I just don't see this happening at a large suburban school, or in Chicago....It has been very well maintained; sure, it shows its age, and isn't the nicest anymore, but is still a quality first class stadium for a rural 3A//4A size football school...it is exactly what you would expect from a rural community that reveres its school...
Where the school screwed up was adding that new soccer field, softball field and parking lot.. What they spent on that, they could have put field turf in and had enough left over put in a softball field.. and not had 17 acres to mow for the next 100 years..
And I will still take over our facilities over the I-8 schools that do not have Com Ed paying the bills..
And I will still take over our facilities over the I-8 schools that do not have Com Ed paying the bills..