[Old Jumper]

This has become a huge issue throughout the state between county and independent school districts. It mostly is due to economics and SEEK money following students that live in one school district and go to school in another. Students can go to school where ever they want, but the SEEK money may not be following them any more.

Exactly, ThunderLips. The entire issue stems from issues of money and contemporary demographics. In this era, America is aging, birth rates are declining and predictably, school systems (particularly rural ones) increasingly find themselves "competing" for the "market dollar" assigned to each child in a decreasing pool. Thus, for those who consider the government's education and development of our youth a "business," Pulaski's recent decisions regarding the reciprocal contract with Somerset make perfect sense.

In other words, if "Pulaski County Schools" indeed considers itself a business, they currently face only two (2) options: 1) They may simply adjust/reduce their "overhead" to align with their "market share" and keep on truckin'. Or 2) they may endeavor to improve/upgrade their services to attract more (or lose fewer) "customers" to the Somerset system. But of course, self-improvement is always the more challenging option of the two, so naturally, the Pulaski system has instead initiated base "aggression" toward "the competition" in lieu of the former. Alas, "self-awareness" and "self-improvement" tragically remain alien to the less-evolved.

So at least within the present context, Pulaski's "leaders" predictably are attempting to eliminate the market's "competition" for students; they're seeking to "monopolize" the market by disallowing school choice for all families in their district. Though of course, their new contract proposals still allow them to accept any/all students living within other district boundaries (i.e., one-way reciprocation--an oxymoron). Apparently, that's the Pulaski definition of "standing on one's own feet".

But okay, back to football. In the grand scheme, this is a non-issue. As someone else in the thread has already stated, all three teams in Pulaski County can (and should) succeed regularly. And guess what? None of them must do so at the expense of the others. Football is a uniquely challenging and beneficial game that (kept in the proper perspective) can enable all of its participants to develop/evolve into tough, resilient and dependable human beings. And guess what? The game indeed does that for kids, no matter whom they line up against.

Perspective, people. Perspective.