Memories of school consolidations

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February 24th, 2009, 12:23 pm · 1 Comment · posted by davis

Be sure to check out reporter January Wetzel’s story in today’s edition of The Tribune and online at TribTown.com.

She reports on the challenges facing small school districts, such as Medora and Crothersville, if Senate Bill 521 becomes law.

Most Hoosier schools consolidated in 1960s. I remember as a child when Owen County schools consolidated in what I beleive was early ’70s. My cousin Garold when Owen Valley High School instead of Patricksburg High School.

There was quite a commotion over that consolidation.

What were things like when schools merged here?

Share your memories.

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edu1 says:

February 27, 2009 at 10:24 am

School consolidation
I work for a school system that consolidated back in the 70’s. The busing has become a nightmare. If for some reason one school is out, then the rest of the schools can not have school either because of the busing connection. Not to mention the price of gas when it was so high. At that time, we were discussing the possiblity of having to charge students to ride the bus because of the long distances & the price of gas.
We also miss a lot of school because of bringing students in from such long distances in the bad weather.