[cheese4me]

I am not for sure if I am correct or not, but I think I am pretty close. Letcher County middleschools have close to 900 kids across the county at all schools. Currently at the HS level they are dressing around 40 kids. The first four years of LCCHS was a product of split gradeschools, the last two were not. Those numbers at the HS level have dropped significantly. I think there are less than 10 kids from all other schools combined besides WMS. That is counting FN, ABE BBE LES CES and MJP. I think that is a major problem. Looks like a no brainer to me. WIth the consolidating of the middleschools looming on the horizon I feel that having three solid middleschool programs would be very benificial to the HS. Maybe I am wrong, but a lot of parents have a very difficult time with logistics of one middleschool and this lack of participation not only hurts the football team, but takes away any lack of ownership from the neighboring communites outside of Whitesburg. I have heard many people complain about not knowing any kids playing at the HS because of this and they are unwilling to support it. I am not knocking anyone at Whitesburg and in theory it was a great experiment but when you look at a 5A school dressing 40 kids it is very sad. In 2001-2003 FN and WHS dressed more kids than that. Interesting debate though