[wildone89]

I'm not saying Harlan High School will close, but I wouldn't count on it becoming a private school. Kentucky has lost about 500 high schools since the 1930s. Not one of them that I know of has turned into a private school.
If there was a merger, the school buildings and everything else would become the property of the county district. It would be a whole lot cheaper for the people who support HHS to keep the district afloat than it would be to start an entirely new private school. It would cost millions to buy the school and land and football field and baseball field and tennis courts, etc...

My thoughts were if coal doesn't rebound somewhat we ALL are in trouble and it doesn't matter if you are a bear or a lizard. Never said I wanted Harlan ind. to close, just the opposite and the county to thrive! But it's hard to tell someone like backwoods ( because he knows it all) anything. The facts are if we keep at the pace we are on( that's Harlan county as a whole) they will be one small, very small county school at rosspoint in a very large building period!