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I never set out to make GC look bad. FACTS are, when the renovation of the football field was complete, the following school year, my cousins and several others did not have history or math books, but copies of the bages instead. I was told by family that the reason was due to a lack of funding and that the school was struggling financially. Those were the facts I got. Dont accuse me of belittling or downing any school from our area, bc I want nothing but the best for all area programs. One area school goes bad, others may benefit for awhile, but its only a matter of time before the others begin to fall as well. Therefor, nothing good can come of area schools falling apart. Our schools need one another, competition is healthy. Im not downing anyone, stating the facts as i know them.

The "facts" you got were wrong. That is the problem. GC recieved a contruction grant that could only be used for "new" contstuction. The school had been remodeled, soccer field built, tennis court and many other projects. Football field and locker room had nothing done to them since 1974 when it was built. The money from the grant could not be used for books or anything else. If people would care enough to go to BOE meeting and find out the real facts instead of making assumptions about lack of funding, things like this would never get started. Whether it was your intention or not, when you posted your "facts" it most certainly made a local school sound bad.