Players vote with their feet. In the early 1970s, Newton played in the Big 8 conference with the Waterloo schools, Cedar Falls, Ames, Fort Dodge. Jerry Moses’ team killed Newton 98-6 and next year they struggled getting kids out for football. They changed to the CIC, I think, and within a few years won a state championship.
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Then that’s a failure of adults that happened a long time ago. Like I said, there shouldn’t be any illusions as to the reality of the situation and no one is forcing anyone to do anything.
No one is forcing anyone to go out, when you can compete and win games, they want to be part of the success. The opposite is also true, when they are losing game after game, year after year. Kids want no part of it, because they see no chance of success. So instead of playing football they will choose a sport that the team is winning in. Hell, I credit those 25 kids at North or Roosevelt a lot more than those 80 kids playing at SEP or Valley. Because those 25 kids want to play football and know they are going to lose most of the games, but still are showing up for practice and doing the things needed to win, just because they want to be on the team that hopefully does turn it around.
Orient-Macksburg school district is done after 2024-25. First district to dissolve since Corwith-Wesley 9 years ago. Probably several more to follow with the looming enrollment cliff, especially in rural areas of the state:
Orient-Macksburg Schools plan to dissolve district. What's next for the students?
A school district in southwest Iowa plans to shutter its doors, making it the first district-wide closure in a decade for the state of Iowa.
www.desmoinesregister.com
Corwith kinda dissolved. 99% went to Algona.Orient-Macksburg school district is done after 2024-25. First district to dissolve since Corwith-Wesley 9 years ago. Probably several more to follow with the looming enrollment cliff, especially in rural areas of the state:
Orient-Macksburg Schools plan to dissolve district. What's next for the students?
A school district in southwest Iowa plans to shutter its doors, making it the first district-wide closure in a decade for the state of Iowa.www.desmoinesregister.com
Orient-Macksburg school district is done after 2024-25. First district to dissolve since Corwith-Wesley 9 years ago. Probably several more to follow with the looming enrollment cliff, especially in rural areas of the state:
Orient-Macksburg Schools plan to dissolve district. What's next for the students?
A school district in southwest Iowa plans to shutter its doors, making it the first district-wide closure in a decade for the state of Iowa.www.desmoinesregister.com
They're being killed by open enrollment moreso than population. Over half of the kids who live in the district are OE'ing out.
Time to consolidate counties. Southern 1/3 of state should be 3 counties.Orient-Macksburg school district is done after 2024-25. First district to dissolve since Corwith-Wesley 9 years ago. Probably several more to follow with the looming enrollment cliff, especially in rural areas of the state:
Orient-Macksburg Schools plan to dissolve district. What's next for the students?
A school district in southwest Iowa plans to shutter its doors, making it the first district-wide closure in a decade for the state of Iowa.www.desmoinesregister.com
You're right, but sooner or later I'm afraid they'll still lose motivation if they don't win at all. Some changes are needed..
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Iowa operating 99 different counties is absolutely insane. You could easily cut it down to 25.
Adams County is over 100 people smaller (entire county) than the small county seat town where I live in NEIA.
Map of every high school in Iowa. 10 counties have only 1 high school in the entire county (4 in top 1/3, 5 in bottom 1/3, 1 in middle).
I thought of this thread when I saw that! Upon further review it is fairly deceiving. Due to space College Community (Prairie) is depicted in Benton County despite being in Linn, they may have a few students from the Benton side of Walford but to that extent they have students in Johnson county. CPU is in southern Linn and neither Center Point nor Urbana are there.
Benton county has two high schools fully in the county (BC and VS) with CPU serving the NE corner from Center Point.
It would be really cool to see this same picture from 1995, especially in the north-central region.
seems like all of the schools have closed or consolidated. - CWL, Woden, Dows, Cal, Northeast Hamiliton, Alden, etc. Kind of sad, but its really expensive to run a school district that may have 130 kids k-12 spread out over 20 miles. I really don't think there is any way to fix this situation. Not like there are any huge tech or financial companies setting up shop in Woden, Iowa.
It's almost like you are going to end up just having your County seat towns, and everything else will be animal farms and corporate farms with the small towns servicing as places to go to a bar and get gas.
this has really expedited over the past 30 years, so I can't imagine another 20-30.
i am also surprised by the number of counties that just have one school.
Interestingly the least populated county in Iowa (Ringgold) has two
Also I see two blatant rip offs of the KState logo
High schools everywhere rip off college and pros. There’s more rip offs of Arizona cardinals and Atlanta falcons in Iowa than kstate.
