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Cordia handled it so much better than Knott, especially Alice Whitaker and the attorney. After watching them you had to wonder if they should close Knott Central and send them to Cordia. The Knott officials were even afraid to talk on TV, as if they had something to hide.
There isn't a county district in the state paying to keep a high school open with 88 students and probably very few with a K-12 facility with 230 students, and yet the only issue discussed in the legal ruling as a reason was the poor condition of the school. Kentucky had over 600 high schools in the 1930s and less than 300 now - so it's not at all unusual. People supporting just about every school closed over the last 50 years have talked about it hurting the community and kids would have to travel too far, but the communities went on just the same and the buses got them there.