Jacket Mom

Im just glad we're doing good this year

High Island is also D2..but we do play them on the 17th.

Yes mam!!! Looking good 

How about those Yellowjackets!!!

How about those Yellowjackets!!!

Congrats Chester......

Way to go 'Jackets!  Was sure glad I got to make it, and enjoyed visiting with old friends.

And that's the game CHESTER wins 80-31

How about those Yellowjackets!!!

How about those Yellowjackets!!!

How about those Yellowjackets!!!

Haven't seen Chester but how did they beat Baytown? Going of scores I'll take Chester over CCS by 4 scores. 

Really want to make homecoming, but that is Evadale's homecoming date too.

Evadale is on a bye week, and I am really looking forward to getting to watch this game.  Chester has had a lot of rough years, but is really having a solid season.  This will be my first game this year, and possibly the only one I will get to see.  Let's go Yellowjackets!

Go Jackets!!!!! 

Thank you!!  

lonestarfootball.net    you can go to any classification and look up school.  Has current schedule with scores as well as historical info.

I graduated from Chester HS in 1986, with a class of 19.  In my class alone we now have a chemical engineer, a college dean of financial aid, a director of education for a prison, a law-enforcement supervisor, several private business owners, a registered nurse, a banker, a high-ranking oil-field supervisor, a school employee and an upper-level non-commissioned officer in the military.  Those are just the ones off the top of my head, as I have lost contact with several class members, and we have had a few pass away.
    Economically you would kill smaller communities.  Most small communities have the school district as the largest employer.  You truly want to consolidate, you are not going to have campuses in those communities - not cost effective.  So you have lost your largest employer, your taxes go to another community and you lose jobs, tax money, business opportunities.  Business opportunities?  Take your local restaurant in town, and you have your tournament or games in general.  You are going to make the bulk of your money off these opportunities of people coming to your community.  
    School pride!  Has Beaumont ever recovered from consolidating?  Beaumont used to have school pride, and community pride.  French High, Beaumont High, Charlton-Pollard High, Hebert High, Forrest Park High, South Park High....community pride was abundant.  It was decided to consolidate, and Beaumont lost something it has never gotten back.
    I am not angry at you.  Discussion is good, and not everyone has to agree with each other.  You will probably not agree with my assessment, and find fault in many of my arguments.  I was raised in Beaumont, and moved to Chester my freshman year.  I was able to play football, basketball, baseball, tennis and participate in numerous UIL events.  I would have never had those opportunities had we stayed in Beaumont.  I will end with this.  I was in Arkansas this past weekend at a HS baseball prospect camp with my son at a university up there.  I was talking to one of the dads from Arkansas, and he mentioned this very thing you are proposing.  He went on to say how horrible it has been for the smaller communities.  The city/community where the HS was located gets the preferential treatment.  The kids that were brought in from the outlying communities were treated as second class, and made to feel inferior.  I chuckled when you posted this thread, thinking about that conversation.  We will stay at our small school, and I went from purple and gold to the Blue and Gold of Evadale HS supporting my boys.

Well at our small school, the Sup, the Princ, the Asst Princ and the Ath Dir are all the same person.  Not very wasteful is it?  And if you had any knowledge about rural schools and rural communities, which apparently you seem to be lacking....when the school goes, so goes the community.  I kinda like my little spot in the woods and would like to see it stay there and on the map.  Texas is too big to have just a few dots on its map.  And if my child  doesn't go further in his athletic career, it's not because he goes to a small school with no other 'competition'.  It's because he hasn't the natural ability or he hasn't put in the work to make it happen.  If you have the ability and the work ethic, there are a multitude of avenues to take to get noticed.  Even the college coaches tell us they don't go to high school games like they used to because of all the camps, showcases, select teams etc.  Not to mention that there are ways to walk on.  Michael Jordan didn't play high school basketball from what I've read in the past, but yet he's one of if not the greatest player of all time.  As for the financial aspect of it, consolidation may eliminate a couple of administrative positions here or there if you're lucky.   But it probably won't.  Your comparison of 1000 kids to 100 kids is not even accurate.  The 1000 kid schools have multiple asst sups, multiple asst. princ and athletic personnel galore.   And consolidation of schools doesn't eliminate campuses per se, especially if you don't have schools within a 10 mile radius to consolidate.  You still have to have the teachers and you still have to have some type of administration on the campus as well as all the operational costs.  But if you do close campuses then guess what it does to the family??  As one poster stated about transportation, the kids would have to get on the bus by or before 6am each morning and get home much later.  But that's only if you don't have extracurricular activities.  Then it's much harder for parents to take care of their kids and it is much more costly for them to do the traveling.  Unless your idea is to stop kids from participating or require everyone to move to the city, then it's not logical for rural families to have to take that on.  I could go on about education, discipline and crime, but this topic just really makes me want to scream.
 

Shows your ignorance there.......don't draw conclusions from a screen name, slick.........

I guess my response will take the form of a question.  If consolidation of several smaller schools is the answer, why are some big school districts (i.e. Katy, Cy-Fair, Humble) building new schools at a maddening pace in an effort to reduce the size of schools and why are others (see Houston ISD) fighting school closure and consolidation efforts?

My Son moved last year to a small school and we absolutely love it. I still live in a "neighborhood", but by next year I hope to have a few acres in the woods or on the river....Goal =  to be able to shoot my gun off my back porch

I live by a rule: "Don't argue with ignorance". It has helped me with several parents, faculty members, etc.

Me too, Hippy, me too!!  And also, I went to a large high school and a small high school.  Large one couldn't even compare to preparing me for life like the small one.

This is just not true.  I went to Cameron (now 3A), so you are telling me that I would have been better off if I went to Temple (now 5A)?  
The fact of the matter is, regardless of where you go, if you have a passion for something you're going to make it happen through hard work.  It does not matter that my Algebra teacher was Mr. Jones (3A) or Mr. Jones (5A).  
I managed to get my self into NHS in high school, attend a private 4-year university, and now have a great job.  How did that happen....I'm not the smartest guy out there, but I worked for it.  Does that make me better than the community college kid or lower than the Harvard graduate.....I think not.  Regardless of where you go to school (high school or college) or what you do in life, hard work and dedication can lead you anywhere.