[Imnottelling]

Greaser my ass, you don't know a mound from a mole hill. Believe it or not there isn't much of a city in the entire county. Get out of town a little bit and tell someone from Cincinnati or Louisville that being from Paintsville makes you a city kid and they will laugh their tails off.

There are always rivalries in high school, but after the fact most of the kids are friends. I can count as many or more Johnson Central grads as close friends than any other. The added rivalry when it comes to JC and Paintsville is the parents and administration generally dislike each other. Make no mistake the bitterness comes from the top down and the kids get caught in the middle. I also don't think it is as much an elitist attitude from one school (although it does exist in some) as an inferiority complex from the other (on a much grader scale). JMHO

I'm not a city girl...never claimed to be and wouldn't want to be one...I'm happy being a country girl. But I have known kids from Paintsville and I have heard the way they talked about the Johnson Central kids. I beg to differ with you when you say the kids get stuck in the middle. Initially it comes from the top down but the kids happily buy into it and foster it.