Halifax County School Board's Financial Crisis

The school system is saying they'll be short over $3m and are threatening to cut sports programs to help balance the budget.

1. Cutting out all sports programs won't be enough to balance the budget.
2. Threatening to slash sports programs was a ploy to excite the natives so they will rise up in protest, thereby helping the board extract more money from the Board of Supervisors.
3. Easiest way to fix the budget: a) kill the two bus system b) kill the dual enrollment and academy programs.

Boom! Budget balanced, problem solved.

Of course the dual enrollment and academy system will continue to suck cash from the system because it's King Stapleton's pet. Whatever he wants, he gets.

Has the board ever stood up to him and said, "NO?"