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good grief!! i could go on all day long how spencer county high school(only high school in district 3a) gets nothing from their board.its a crying shame how the school uses the football gate money to fund every other sport in the school.then when time comes the football team needs something the answer is no.this spencer co. team has a makeshift locker room,no lockers,makeshift weight room(all used equipment),has to practice on its game field and has to share that time with soccer teams and the MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAM.its absolutely gross at the way the super lets things be run in this district.the focal point of spencer public schools is the middle school that was built couple years ago.the high school was just renovated and already the new roof leaks and the school is out of instructional classroom space.so to answer the original question,no,spencer is getting nothing new but it would be nice.people around here only want to talk about missing school money and raising taxes.

Not 100% correct here on a couple of things.

Spencer County's School Board raised our taxes 2% to fund bleachers for the home side ($100K) that are supposed to be installed before 2010. Personally, I have contacted my school board rep and requested that once those bleachers are paid for that the 2% then be allotted towards ATHLETICS ONLY from now on (ie. lights for the SCHS baseball field, upgrade the tennis courts, bleachers for SCMS football and baseball fields, actual starting budgets for all athletic programs, etc.), but that that money NOT just go back into the general fund once the bleachers are up.

Also, SCMS has it's own field. The Middle School team played 2 games at the high school (versus North Oldham and OKH (which was a playoff game)) because we needed the lights.

As for the high school building itself, I couldn't agree more. The $9 million they spent on renovating it was a band-aid on a bullet wound. I wish they would have just saved their money and build a new HS. Kind of like the money they keep spending on Taylorsville Elementary. Why?

Spencer County athletes deserve better. Especially if we realistically expect to keep up with North Oldham, Henry County, and Western Hills (district opponents), much less ever get ahead of them. But then again, you can't shame our school board! Some of them could proabably care less!