amh27
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Post by amh27 on Aug 28, 2009 11:21:57 GMT -5
Today we will watch our GC Dawg players play for other schools, while in their heart they are Dawgs. I hope we can undo in November what we as a community have done to these kids. This is a sad day in the history of our community. Bless each of these kids.
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Post by natr1der on Sept 10, 2009 17:30:28 GMT -5
Our family decided to stay in Grove City although this is my daughter's Senior year. She would be a lady hound varsity basketball player. She desparately wants to play, but with HER team at HER school. We teach our kids loyalty and then present them with an impossible situation. She is playing fall ball for AAU and open gym, so she is doing what she loves, BUT I find it a sad reality that this community chose this. It is like the "year that never was."
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Post by austin on Sept 11, 2009 4:04:09 GMT -5
BUT I find it a sad reality that this community chose this. It is like the "year that never was." I agree completely. I keep telling myself that we must look forward, we must press on, that the very act of doing so will teach our kids valuable lessons, and although I do believe that is true, there is a part of me that just cannot believe that we did this to ourselves. No "alternative" plans can make up for the missed opportunities that we can never replace for these students. There's just an underlying sadness for us that we cannot shake. I don't have a senior this year, although we have two in high school. I hope that they will yet be able to realize some of their dreams. I feel dreadful for this year's seniors, as they did nothing to deserve this, and are just dealing with this because of the year they happened to be born. When people say that it's not a "big deal", that it's not the schools' responsibility to provide these things for them anyway, that the school should just provide the three R's and that's it, I just feel sick. I want to lash out and say, 'Well, didn't someone pay for you? Were you hatched from an egg as a full-fledged adult, or did you get to go to high school and take part in the things you chose and experience football games and basketball games and homecomings?" But I know it does no good, so I don't bother much any more. It just makes me sick that these people consider these kids "spoiled" and "entitled" just because they would like to have the same opportunities that these very people who are saying these things had. But I cannot live in a place of anger and resentment; I am much better off just letting that go inasmuch as it is possible. Today's kids are, from my experience, NOT just simply self-absorbed. Honestly, my boys have done a lot more community service and volunteer work than I had ever thought about doing at their age. My recently-graduated senior literally had hundreds of hours of serving his community in a variety of ways. I find today's young people to be idealistic and altruistic, not spoiled and self-serving. I guess it's just easier for part of the population to blame "kids these days". Whatever. We must press forward and work together to get this levy passed in November to try to salvage what can be salvaged for seniors, and put things back on track for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.
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Post by gcbandmom on Sept 18, 2009 12:42:08 GMT -5
I'm glad to hear my family is not in the sadness boat alone. My son is a sophomore member of the marching band. He came home from Arizona last year on cloud nine. Worked hard and made the snare line this past spring. It's what he's wanted to do since he was in 6th grade. How do you go from one of the best programs in the nation to nothing. We are sad. We are angry. It's tough to shake it. We put so much effort into the last levy effort. It feels as if every ounce of energy has been sucked out of us. My son now struggles with the HUGE decision, should he stay or should he go. He can't sit out of another marching season. A decision no 15 year old kid should have to make. We get choked up just talking about leaving the program at GCHS. It's not something he wants to do, but he can't waste the rest of his high school years hoping that it will come back. November is his last shot then he will probably move on. It's been a gut wrenching couple of months.
We will work hard this time around to try to get people to see what has been lost at all of our schools. I also have kids at Buckeye Woods . I was at the school a few days ago at 10:00 am and the library was dark. How sad. The library was always available to me when I was in school.
The situation we are in is just wrong. How can we be here now? I hope and pray that we as a district can survive. I don't mean to look at the dark side. This is a forum about how the levy has impacted our lives.This is how it has impacted ours.
I am very proud of all of the kids in this district and what they are doing to try to get through this. They are all incredible young people. We are lucky to have them.
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