Quote Originally Posted by bombermwc View Post
OK well first off, the statement about the tragic incidents is false. We had a shooting at Ft. Gibson, and they are what 3A. Most of the places you hear about shootings are upper middle class suburban posh areas. The stuff that happens everday at a smaller inner city school never gets broadcast, so that's just a bad arguement.

Magnet schools are just a collection of specialty classes that offer opportunities in one school because the smaller schools spread out across the district don't have enough students in one place to offer the courses. So you just made my arguement for me with the larger school....larger population = more students = more of the "magnet" courses.

And as for athletes, if that's the only drawback, I'll take it. Seems to me that when the largest school in the state still fails to make it past round 1 or maybe 2 in football a few times in 20 years, tells me talent base is as much a coach as students. BA/MWC/Mustang all fought it out for the wrestling and Jazz Band state titles for 20 years....and MWC was the smallest. And like I said before, that's why they have other levels of play at those schools. Not every kid is going to get a scholarship to play sports in college....in fact MOST won't. And MOST people that play in college DON'T go pro. So i'd rather focus on the academic opportunities and prepare them for the real world rather than the "possible, but not probable" one.
You didn't understand my point about the tragic incidents. I didn't mean it was only because it was a large school, I said it was from a disconnected feeling that students might get. I know that is possible in smaller schools but it's more likely in mega high schools. And I didn't make your argument at all. I think having magnet schools for specialties is a far superior idea to having 10,000 students at one high school. That idea works for a college with 20,000 students but those students are much more mature and hopefully can adjust to the size easily (and I know some don't so don't tell me about Virginia Tech). As far as scholarships, I didn't mean all of the students would get athletic scholarships. Being on an athletic team is a bonus in a high school resume when a college is evaluating students for other kinds of scholarships or even admissions. And you evidently agree with me about athletes not going pro. That's exactly what I said.

Again, if bigger is better, why don't we just have one consolidated high school in all of Tulsa County and one in Oklahoma County?