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that's why your going to end up with Nettleton and Mooreville and Shannon in a district towards Macon and Louisville once they send 2 or 3 schools in some direction west or south.

East Union

I am beginning to think the number 27 or 28 the news threw out there when discussing consolidation may very well be cutting the counties especially smaller counties back to one district office. Hinds-JPS Pearl-Rankin County Forest Municipal-Scott County Newton City-Newton County-Union Meridian-Lauderdale Enterprise-Clarke County Philadelphia-Neshoba County East-West Jasper Laurel-Jones County Hazlehurst-Copiah County Columbia-Marion County McComb-Pike County Hattiesburg-Forrest County Richton-Perry County The coastal counties except for George and Stone i would have to go looking. That's just the south.

Yes they both do. On3 says OG has a 58% win chance on the road at Petal.......... After further review, OG will blast Houston TN and I figure Petal beats WJ around 40-17

Lets discuss it next week. OG and Petal have tough opponents to play this week

who wins and why?

casino money from Tunica is no more.

So true

I agree. But it should

Correct. That’s where the money goes, to the districts. Not the actual schools. And I don’t consider a 2A school to be tiny.

The pockets being lines IS about the main reason to do it. That is a lot of payroll the state could cut out forcing consolidations. If the casino tax money that was supposed to help fund education actually went towards education we wouldn’t be in such a money bind.

Isn’t Rankin also 1 district for entire county? I know at one point there was talk of Jones County School District absorbing Laurel cause all but 1 Laurel school was failing hard. JCSD was all “hell naw” they wanted no part of it.

Thanks for clarifying. It may happen in many counties but it will never be statewide. Too many pockets being lined in those City Districts to give it up to one centralized distict

You want this but yet you don't want those tiny schools in Smith County to consolidate. Quit straddling the fence.

Yes. One district for the entire county. If desoto county can do it, all counties can do it

In class 1-4A there can only be 5 teams per region

That ain't gonna happen. Keep dreaming about that.

So, are you talking for county schools I assume? Or are you expecting for example, Hinds County to have 1 district that manages all schools k-12, city and county?

I think they have a better shot this year than previously. Time will tell.

I was pretty impressed by Mizzou. Simmons is a good player. State was able to stop their run game enough to win. But if they can run the ball on you then they’re going to be hard to stop. Good defense, too.

Not all schools need to be consolidated. But that don’t mean you can’t consolidate the school districts. There should only be 1 school district per county across the whole state.

Im not so sure Diberville gets out of round 1 being a no.2 seed. Probably playing Brandon Petal or Oak Grove in round 1.

Trinidad will have to score 35 plus to beat Mizzou

just off top of my head in Tippah county also are Blue Mountain high and Ripley which are 6.5 miles apart. In Union county, Myrtle and West union are 9.5 miles apart. And one for the "it'll never happen" category are New Albany and Ingomar which are 6.5 miles apart.

As a native of Northeast MS, they are a section of the state that has resisted consolidation. Falkner and Walnut merging into North Tippah has been a civil war and they are only 8 miles apart with very similar student bodies. I agree there is a lot of school consolidation that "should" take place but local boards often don't want to make the tough calls for political reasons. Some of these small schools are due to being in separate districts and that's always been my bigger issue. Thrasher HS and Booneville HS are 5.5 miles apart but in different districts. Wheeler is 6 miles from Baldwyn but again, different districts. Hatley and Amory are about 5 miles apart as well but different districts. Unless district consolidation happens, there won't be any movement on those fronts. That's just a small sample, but indicative of a larger issue.