The schools should have voted to go to six classes instead of eight. It would have made it easier to make single class conferences within reasonable distance instead of all these split conferences everywhere.
It looks like they decided to put all of the charter schools in their own conference and moved some other schools (Cherryville, Bessemer City, Highland, the Rutherford and Asheville schools) around to fill in or make smaller conferences.
It looks like the easiest solution to the 10 and 11 school conferences in the west would be to put the 4a mountain schools with the Rutherford schools. You would have three 7 school conferences as a result.
If they try to minimize split conferences they could put Lincolnton and West Lincoln with Bessemer City, Shelby, Chase and East Rutherford. Not a bad conference but I don’t know if any of those schools would be happy with it.
Take or leave with a grain of salt but the Charlotte Observet previewed the Lincoln County Schools today and predicted the CVAC to go like this: 1. Maiden. 2. Bunker Hill. 3. Lincolnton. 4, West Lincoln. 5. East Burke. 6. Bandys. 7. Newton-Conover. 8. West Caldwell.
General Assembly: We believe that every student should be able to pick which charter school to go to.
Also General Assembly: We do not believe that the charter schools should be able to contend for state championships since they are recruiting the same students that we allow to attend there.