Ken Buck

A beautiful day for playoff soccer and a middle school girls win.

@Panthers @PanthersCR Keep Pounding High School Press Conference was amazing. Excited to have @Indian_Land_FB participating in this prestigious game. See you all on 8/29/26! #WarriorPride #TheLand

Thank you to the @Panthers for putting on such a wonderful event. It's an honor to represent such a great community, school and team. I can't wait to see this team compete at Bank of America stadium on Aug. 29th #STB

ILMS girls soccer finishes the regular season with a 9-3 record (best record in recent memory) and second in the conference, while the boys finish with 1 loss and a first place finish. Playoffs Thursday for both teams. @AndrewChodes_

If you are looking around & second guessing schools that are closed in the Carolinas, I will leave you w/my guiding principle as a public school official: I would rather apologize for inconveniencing you w/a closure than deeply apologizing for your child getting hurt at school.

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@CavanaughBurt @LouatTheState @SCPrepTalk Why so? IL was being asked to drive through Fort Mill and Rock Hill to drive over an hour to the Columbia conference.

@LouatTheState @SCPrepTalk Ridiculous

Indian Land has won its appeal, 5-3, today before 4A classification. Indian Land will be in Region 3-4A with Catawba Ridge, Clover, Lake Wylie, Legion Collegiate (no football), Nation Ford, South Pointe, York.

@iguerin Where is this stream?

It's not quite a good, but still useable.

@AndrewChodes_ I think the trouble with Harrisburg is that tiny corner by Fort Mill in which it is located is going to likely draw as many FM parents as it does Indian land parents. Very difficult to get to for the majority of the community.

@KenBuckSC They already have a classroom problem. And people keep moving there and kids keep enrolling. Harrisburg will become 9-12 in the next three years.

Have a story coming out in a few minutes. I live in Indian Land, I cover Indian Land, I've seen the congestion... they will be one of the biggest 5A schools in a few years. Yes, the transportation crisis and staggered schedules is an effective argument. Still, I am stunned.

@LouatTheState I’m not sure if I ever recall them being big 16. I could be wrong. I definitely remember them being 4A.

Marlboro County "There is not much else ... except from school district." Also said lost 100 students in a year. Did point out decline, was once a Big 16 school

@iguerin Hey, where have you found to actually view the live stream of these hearings?

Spent 75 minutes of this morning’s SCHSL appeals with an AirPod in and my head stuffed under a sink replacing a busted pipe coupling/cleaning up the aftermath. Gotta say, having the appeals in my ear was my HS Sports Nerd version of Whistle While You Work.

@bradpraisely @CoachGStories @iguerin There are no multipliers. They don’t have any out of district students.

@KenBuckSC @CoachGStories @iguerin If they have any out of district students, there is absolutely a multiplier on those numbers

This appeal from Indian Land is fascinating. How its school district has to structure busing and start ILHS later in the day because of congestion is maybe the most original argument I've heard in all of the appeals.

@CoachGStories @iguerin No multiplier at all. Those are the raw numbers.

@KenBuckSC @iguerin Multiplier for out of district?

@iguerin I wasn’t really directing my comments to you, but rather to the other person who was asking if that was the only determining factor.

Which is why I pointed that out and even applauded Indian Land's argument.

@iguerin I understand that. But that’s also a factor when you also considered the transportation issues.

Once again... There is a geographical component to realignment. It's not 100% based off the ADM.

@CoachGStories @iguerin Based on enrollment numbers alone, they shouldn’t even be in 5A.

@iguerin What is their argument for how this is a reason to get into a lower classification? Does it have to do with a number of students not being able to play because of busing? What am I missing?

@CoachGStories @iguerin According to the enrollment numbers published by the high school league, Indian land has fewer students than the two top teams in 4A.