Consolidation has been discussed in our county (Posey). There are currently 3 different school corporations in our county: Mt. Vernon, North Posey, and New Harmony. The following problems have arisen:
1. Whose pay scale do you use?
2. Do you build a new high school closer to the center of the county or do you pay to bus students quite a few miles from two corporations to a current building?
3. To handle the influx of new students to a current building there would probably need to be renovations in whatever building was chosen.
4. When asked their opinion on consolidation, many people have said it's a good idea. However, when you tell them that their school would be closed, the outcry was loud. They DID NOT want their alma mater closed down; they wanted the rest of the county bussed to "their" school. Small town pride gets in the way.