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Nothing will bring legislators from different sides of the aisle together more quickly to oppose consolidation than elimination of administrative fat.Makes sense. Probably makes sense to close some but this is a start....
Proposed house bill would merge 6 Mississippi community college districts into 3
A recently introduced house bill would bring major changes to junior college districts across Mississippi if approved.
I was told that Lauderdale County is technically in the EMCC district, but a portion of it was blocked off for MCC when it was created
I mean, all college sports outside of football and men's basketball are a waste of money. I don't have a problem with JUCO sports, as long as they are just another extracurricular on a shoestring budget. Maybe football should be eliminated just because it's hard to do it safely cheaply. But otherwise, let them be glorified high school sports. Not even sure they should spring for full time coaches. My only concern with making that a rule is that they'd probably make coaches into unqualified teachers to get better coaching.
Jones has already fought to stay JCJC.
Here's the community college district map. Meridian could also fit into East Central.
If I were education dictator for the day, in addition to these proposals,
Itawamba would merge into Northeast.
Meridian and East Central would merge into East.
The Northern half of Pearl River would merge into Jones and the Southern half into Gulf Coast.
This takes us from 13 to 9.
My next move is even controversial.
Madison County is moved to Hinds, and Hinds is renamed Central Mississippi
Co-Lin is renamed Southwest
Jones is renamed Pine Belt
Holmes is renamed North Central
You now have 9 administrative areas that can act as 9 K-12 school districts. You would certainly need sub-districts, but the administrative functions fall under nine superintendents.
Makes sense. Probably makes sense to close some but this is a start....
Proposed house bill would merge 6 Mississippi community college districts into 3
A recently introduced house bill would bring major changes to junior college districts across Mississippi if approved.
Thank god you only speak for yourself then. My daughter isn’t a D1 athlete, but a damn good softball pitcher. Juco is her path to play post HS sports. If you don’t care about it, that’s your business… a lot of folks do care about it.
You people do realize that most of the states Juco softball teams are actually elite, right? Co-Lin just won a national title. Jones has had one recently, Itawamba is knocking on the door. Most of them have played at a very high level in the last 10years.
This makes good sense. I might go further and split East Mississippi between east central and Northeast.
Here's the community college district map. Meridian could also fit into East Central.
If I were education dictator for the day, in addition to these proposals,
Itawamba would merge into Northeast.
Meridian and East Central would merge into East.
The Northern half of Pearl River would merge into Jones and the Southern half into Gulf Coast.
This takes us from 13 to 9.
My next move is even controversial.
Madison County is moved to Hinds, and Hinds is renamed Central Mississippi
Co-Lin is renamed Southwest
Jones is renamed Pine Belt
Holmes is renamed North Central
You now have 9 administrative areas that can act as 9 K-12 school districts. You would certainly need sub-districts, but the administrative functions fall under nine superintendents.
Don't worry. This has no chance of becoming law. It also doesn't mean each campus can't have a sport.
Actually agree with you…wasn’t intentional. Softball is very good in MS.
The “you people” comment wasn’t pointed directly at you. It’s directed to anyone saying “just cut Juco athletics… it’s not worth anything.” (To grossly paraphrase). I can not speak for every sport, but I’ve been raising a softballer who’s in her 9th year of playing. I have put a lot of time, money, and effort into it. She has put everything she has into it. Any bill that limits her college playing opportunities, I oppose.
I played JUCO football and it was awesome experience, but if we are being honest it’s a waste of State money. 12 teams with travel, meals, equipment, etc. is a lot. The fan support is not really there.
I am not trying to be rude, I loved my opportunity to play JUCO. I could have gone D2 or FCS, but wanted to stay close to friends and family. I am just looking back and not seeing a real benefit to the JUCO option (it’s just more competitive high school ball). If you are not good enough to play past high school it’s okay. It was worth it, but it ends eventually. I hope your daughter kills it and gets a chance to go on past JUCO btw.
A quick Google search says that Co-Lin (just the one school I looked up) has a 2.5 mil allocated to it by the state of Mississippi for its athletic budget. Co-Lin generated 2.4 and some change in athletic revenue. That along with donations to its version of the Wolfpack club, they actually are net positive on budget. I realize they aren’t all that successful, but it’s literally the first one I searched.
My son just started at East Central (early grad playing OT) and loves it so far. Best of luck to your daughter.
While I think you speak from a biased perspective (and selfish), I do agree with you. JUCOs is one of the few places we actually INVEST in this state. We should not be trying to cut cut cut.
I put a lot of time, money, and effort into being an astronaut. Didn’t work out. Nor do I think the MS taxpayer should have funded it. Not being an a^^, but perhaps focus on the long-term?
You put yourself out there bruh. You are being overly emotional due to your own situation. That’s why you’re trying to push the topic toward some mythical corruption.
I think you’d be surprised how much stuff costs today. And too many people are involved now for there to be much fraud in the water system. Too many eyes, corruption usually flies under the radar and is confined to a few people.
Do you sit with a deep leg cross? The emotion with which you discuss this topic screams estrogenic rage. Perhaps a supporter of gyno fascism?
