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Mansfield Summit 48, Killeen Ellison 40. Final

FBM 47, Alamo Heights 29. Final

Houston Washington 76, Austin LBJ 56. final

Meyer 58, Ropes 51. Final

Paradise 48, City View 42. Final

So it IS possible for us to agree on something 😀. He’s done a fantastic job!

CCVM got a little dirty there at the end. The Brook did a great job not getting sucked into anything that could affect them next game. What a performance!

Fantastic season for Onalaska! Hard to go out that way, but what a year!

Just got it going, thanks

Stream working, or still down?

Wild

This is my last post on this because the argument is so dumb, but how many years did you work in Beaumont? Drive across town from home to work daily? Im not worried about when your mom drove you around when you were 11, or when you drove around as a teen from home to school or wherever you went to hang out. As an adult I drove the same route across Beaumont twice a day more days than not for TWELVE years. You may have been born there, but I know from your age and your work history I drove there a whole heck of a lot more than you ever did. More often than not it was a 30 minute commute. Sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more, depending on traffic. While I went from one end of town to the other, I wasn’t quite going to the outer edges of either side of the district map. Bussing to one high school would be a nightmare unless they built a brand new campus in the middle of town somewhere.

Kountze is unreal tonight! 68-19 going to the 4th!

Well, you’d know better than me. I only made the commute for 11 years. Actually 12 if you count the year I went to Lamar. as for your second point, I’m not arguing they’d get better, but you’d have to make a whoooole lot of changes before they’d be a good 6A team. It’s not like they combine and get to keep playing the Baytown schools

Reading is FUNdamental. Lived there for 14 years. Commuted crosstown from the west end to the pear orchard for 11 of those years. As I clearly stated in my other post. You think I’m lying because I don’t want one school in Beaumont? You’re right about one thing: i don’t live there now. it wouldn’t affect me in any way. That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. And once again, if you think a 6-5 or 7-4 football record is worth all of the other issues going to one school would bring, there’s really not much point in taking this conversation any further. You aren’t combining one mediocre and one bad 5A schools together and getting a dominant 6A squad.

I drove it 187 days a year for 11 years. Traffic at 4:30 pm (and 7 am) is a lot different than it is at 6:00 pm. I’d get off work and either have to drive through neighborhoods and red lights or spent 12-15 min on Eastex to go 5 miles to the college st exit. You’re also neglecting the fact that Beaumont’s district boundaries extend beyond the city limits in all directions. And there isn’t any universe where you combine two football teams that went 4-6 and 3-7 (not a quality win for either team) in 5A and they’re “literally dominate” in 6A. Especially in the district they’d join.

And a lot of shots. But when he does play defense he’s tough.

Columbus is fast! Everything they do is at 100 mph and it’s giving Onalaska fits so far

Columbus up 25-12 after a deep three by rigdon to end the 1st q

Onalaska cold from deep right now. Getting good looks

Wow. Miss an over the back and then call a foul on the player that had just been climbed over who wasn’t even facing the rebounder?

Columbus playing football and the refs swallowing their whistles. 10-5 columbus mid first

yup.

Saw this explanation on another site and wanted to post it. Some of it echos @SmashMouth's excellent post yesterday. Cost to send a student to a private school: $10,000 Voucher given: $10,000 New cost to send a student to Private school: $15,000 All these poor inner-city kids stuck at under-performing public schools STILL won't be able to afford to go to a private school because the price was upped to keep them out. Those private schools don't want those high-risk kids coming in dragging down their scores. But all those schools just got a 5K raise per student without changing their demographics one iota. All these poor rural kids stuck at under-performing schools STILL won't be able to attend a private school not only because they can't afford it....but also because the closest one is 100 miles away. But those private schools also got a 5K raise per student without taking in any rural students. But now tax dollars are going to be given to parents that could already afford to send their kids to private school even without the vouchers. Welfare for the rich. Rewards for an already wealthy private school lobby. Things go unchanged at the underperforming schools.....but with less money to do it.

I lived in beaumont for 14 years, teaching for 10 of them, and taught there an additional 5 years after I moved to Fannett. I lived in the west end, about 5 minutes from West Brook, and worked at Bingman over by Ozen/United. it routinely took me 20-25 minutes to get to work and 30-35 minutes to get home. While I had to cross town, there are several bus routes that would be considerably longer than my daily commute. I also didn't have to stop and pick up 50+ kids. Your "typical bus ride" would just be the commute across town so that the route can START. The first kids picked up and the last kids dropped off dang sure would be looking at getting up ridiculously early or dropped off super later. Rest assured you'd be looking at some bus routes pushing 2 hours long. You also ignored ALL of the other disadvantages I listed. Apart from marginal improvements in a couple of sports, please list advantages of changing to just one high school.