Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston said this week that, even though the county has passed bond referendums totaling $2 billion for Guilford County Schools’ capital projects and repairs in the last four years, it’s highly likely that a new round of school bonds will be needed “within the next two or three years.”

Alston made his remarks to the Rhino Times when he was being asked about the disappointed Page High School students, parents and alumni who expected to get a new high school after the passage of the $1.7 billion school bond referendum in 2022 – but instead the old school is continuing to limp along with heating and air system repairs and facing other issues….

The City of High Point is very lucky to have High Point University – which educates a lot of youngsters, draws worldwide attention to the city and, oh yeah, is also known for its year-round charitable and service work that helps the city, the county and the region.

In another big gift that helps the city out, High Point University is donating $250,000 to Business High Point in order to support local minority entrepreneurs and to help develop the Washington Street Historic District in the city….

There are a whole lot of legitimate criticisms that can be made against the Guilford County Board of Commissioners; however, one of those criticisms is not that the board’s lack of funding for the schools has caused the recent repeated problems with the HVAC system at Page High School – which has led to several days of lost learning for the students.

Page High, in what has been a highly publicized controversy, has been closed multiple days in January due to heating problems – and the school would have lost more days had the snow and ice not later halted the entire school system.   

On some days when the rest of the school system has been open, Page has been holding virtual learning; however, parents of students say that, in most cases, online classes are a sad substitute for actual classroom learning….