[JumperPride1]

I have witnessed this first hand. In the end the County will win out. Over the next few years budgets will become so crunched that there will be no choice and it only takes one mistake to set the dominos in motion. The decision has everything to do with football but the lasting affects will be with the entire school. You can think what you want but this will be a fact facing all Independent School districts in the near future as agreements end do to dollars.

So if Somerset is going to be ok explain to me with stagnant state spending how they are going to pay for everything that is constantly going up? How are they going to grow if they have a static population in their limits?

The Somerset School District covers 11 square miles. I think the biggest thing you see right now is the change in demographics of the city school district. Nicer neighborhoods are moving outward, while government housing and older neighborhoods are still a part of the 11 square miles in the district. Somerset has a good number of kids, but its not ALL the stereotypical doctors, lawyers kids that Somerset had long been associated with. It isn't a bad thing, and the numbers within the city district aren't declining (in fact rising at the elementary level), merely as stated the demographics are entirely different than it once was.