Ok, now Davis and the MJHS Principal are crying for the need to expand MJHS because of all the portables they have brought in.
Davis wants $50 Million to build a new LHS to replace the old, falling-down old LHS.
After a new LHS is built, Watertown High will have to be replaced. It will be old and falling down.
Here is a solution.
Instead of replacing LHS with a building larger than MJHS, just build a smaller LHS. And then…., build some smaller NEW high schools across the county and shift boundary lines.
Sumner County (our neighbor up north) has 155,000 residents. Wilson County has 105,000 residents.
Sumner County has 8 traditional high schools (plus 1 night high school and 1 alternative high school).
Wilson County has 4 traditional high schools.
Here is my proposal:
Close LHS, and put a smaller version on Hartmann Dr where they have the land purchased.
Close Watertown HS and put a new HS off of Hwy 70 south of I-40 that would serve Watertown and some of the old LHS area.
Put a new HS up on 109 north of Hwy that would draw students from WCHS.
Put a new small HS south of I-40 off MJ Road that would take students from MJHS and WCHS.
Summary: Close the two oldest High Schools and build 4 new smaller schools that would reshuffle all boundary lines.
Finally: Take the old LHS and make it the new BOE Headquarters. Which is what Sumner County did when they built a new GHS, they occupied the old GHS as their headquarters.
Make the old LHS the new BOE headquarters and I promise Mike Davis will find the money to maintain it (something he refuses to do now for the current LHS).
Fire Davis.
