He harps and harps on this and I can't figure out why. Don't know if he has a kid in Moore or Edmond schools where they split and now their football teams suck ass and that's why. I can only speak for our experience at Union. At no time did I ever feel like the school didn't have enough resources to assist my son if he needed something. What I do know is if they split the school up the number of available AP courses would be much lower. We had looked in to possibly moving him to BK for his sophomore year but they didn't offer certain AP classes he wanted to take...they simply don't have the resources to offer all of them OR the qualified teachers to teach those advanced classes. My son's math teacher at Union only taught advanced Calculus (Calc AB, Calc BC, Calc 3).
Union is also designed in such a way that a lot of the students are taking classes at TCC or Tulsa Tech early on...so not all of these kids are showing up and clogging the hallways of Union's physical building every day. Yes there are a lot of students but Union spreads them out pretty well. If I felt they needed to split it up because my son was not getting the attention and support he needed from his teachers or college counselors, I would be at the school board meeting to say it's time.
And just a note, I don't know how OSSAA counts its daily avg. attendance/enrollment figures. I'm pretty sure it's considered 9th-12th grades. Well Union's 9th graders are in an entirely different, really big ass building. So 1000 students there, maybe 3000 at the Mingo school location for grades 10-12. If I recall correctly, BA also has a freshman academy building with it's freshmen class. Now, BA has classes that are about 50% larger than Union's. Their district is listing about an avg. enrollment of 1500 for grades 9-12 (Union is about 1000). What Union doesn't have to face is an every growing district boundary and expansion of homes available in the district unlike BA, Owasso, Bixby, and Jenks where new subdivisions seems to pop up weekly. Union is pretty much done growing to be honest. There's not much space for more housing additions within the current district boundaries.
