The departure of Terry Grier presents High Point with an opportunity to fix some of the problems in our school system.

Years ago High Point City Schools were separate from Guilford County Schools. I remember reading the article in the Enterprise announcing the merger that would save about $100,000 a year (Or about 8% of what High Point’s taxpayers spent to build a bus stop roof.)

The results have been, to say the least, disastrous. High Point is the bastard stepchild of the school system, with High Point taxpayer’s money ending up mostly in Greensboro and High Point getting the occasional leftover bone. High Point can’t even claim it’s own A. J. Simeon stadium anymore. We aren’t even allowed to do the much needed maintenance on the stadium.

Here is the opportunity: Take back High Point city schools and separate them from Greensboro – excuse me – Guilford County schools. We did much better back then because our school board members were focused on High Point city schools as their only point of focus, not just a footnote to Greensboro schools.

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