Improving education in Estill County

Here are some ideas off the top of my head:
1. Hire high quality educators and avoid hiring someone based solely upon their surname. One shouldn't inherit teaching jobs in Estill County.
2. Develop sports at Estill High School that might involve some of the lower income students such as archery, swimming, wrestling, etc.
3. Estill seniors need to be able to connect to distant learning for courses not offered at the high school.
4. As stated earlier, Estill needs a vocational school and they need to stop hauling our young people to Richmond...it is costly and time consuming.
5. Special education classes should take more field trips...get the kids out of Irvine and into the rest of the area. Spend less gas on the daily commute to KY Tech and more money on field trips.
6. Build a new cafeteria/gymnasium and office space at West Irvine. Convert gym/caferia into a library and music room. Convert the current kitchen into a classroom or maybe computer lab. Tear down the outside addition and create a 5th grade pod connected to the main building.
7. South Irvine elementary should become a k-5 school again. Build a new pod so some West Irvine students from Wisemantown and Red Lick could attend South Irvine Elementary.
8. End 90 minute block scheduling at the Estill County High School.
9. Time Out Rooms are needed for the grade schools. Something like In-school suspension would be great.
10. Limit parents from going all over the school to pick up their children. A real safety issue. Parents shouldn't be allowed past the office without a visitor's pass. The safety of students and faculty is very important.
11. Adopt 2 hour delays to cut down on missed snow days.
12. Connect the old Irvine High School into the Estill Springs elementary so students won't freeze and get wet walking to and from the main building.
13. Finally have administrators from the local school take a trip to schools in neighboring school districts.
14. Encourage clubs at Estill County High school to accept lower income students.