The state and federal governments draw so much money out of these communities through taxation. Without a military base, seniors on social security, or families on welfare, the money just never comes back.
Responsible young adults refuse to bring children into a situation of decline.
Irresponsible adults get plenty of government money, though, and that feeds their communities at the expense of other communities.
The small schools in Florida concentrate on basketball. I don’t think they have six man football. At least I have never heard of it in Florida.
some small towns are dying while others are springing up….
When I graduated in 1956, we were in Class C -- the smallest towns with 11-man football. We had 62 boys in high school (9-12) and 56 came out for football. We were consistently one of the top Class C teams in the state -- and didn't have to travel more than 50 miles to any of our eleven games that season.
Nowadays, the school is in Class B, but plays 8-man football and sometimes has to travel 200 miles into the panhandle for a conference match-up. And it's the band that competes for state honors, not the football team.
At least, we haven't been consolidated...yet. And we're still playing football. But for how long...???
I have a wealthy cousin who apparently tried to create a small town. I have no idea what he was thinking but it failed.
At first I noticed a large area had been bulldozed then cleared. Next, I noticed maybe 7 or 8 buildings were being constructed. They were nice little buildings but they were in the middle of nowhere.
Eventually I noticed a small restaurant opened in one of them and a lawyer had an office in another. Neither lasted more than a few months and now it is just a bunch of deserted nice little buildings.
There are some well written pieces on this page. The author should be congratulated.
We were class A in Florida. At the time that was the next to largest class. They were AA, A, B, C, and D. Class A was the most common size.
There were two class D high schools out in the County. They both had excellent basketball teams. We beat them my senior year and it was considered an upset. Strange that a Class A team beating a Class D would be that.
We did have a great football team that year.
Did you see the blurb about O’Brien bailing for the job in Houston ?
Nevermind .. saw your post on that thread .. 30 seconds after mine in here .. lol
In Connecticut, some regional high schools don’t have football but some high schools are co-op teams (2 or more schools together on a team. Not only football, but hockey as well Ellington, East Windsor and Windsor Locks got together for hockey.)
Much of the problem is caused by regulations against common poeple building and producing. Much of it is also caused by the anti-family laws and policies of the past few decades. In sum, moral bankruptcy in leadership.