{"id":14825,"date":"2023-05-05T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14825"},"modified":"2023-05-01T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:51:32","slug":"clearing-up-clearfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/clearing-up-clearfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing up Clearfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a reader&#8217;s letter, I dug in on the history of the Clearfield school for the 1982-92 school years. It got so complicated I had to make a spreadsheet. The Clearfield district, on the Taylor\/Ringgold county line, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/last-weeks-at-clearfield-school-hey-that-picture-looks-familiar\/\">dissolved in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was a year off on Clearfield\u2019s last year for a high school; it was 1983-84 (<em>Mount Ayr Record-News<\/em>, 5\/17\/84). In that year, Clearfield and Diagonal had a junior high sharing arrangement, with seventh grade in Diagonal and eighth grade in Clearfield (<em>MARN<\/em>, 4\/21\/83).<\/li>\n<li>For 1984-85, grades 5-9 were in Diagonal and 9-12 in Clearfield except for physics, chemistry, and shop classes in Diagonal (<em>MARN<\/em>, 2\/16\/84). That was reversed for 1985-86, with 6-9 in Clearfield and 10-12 in Diagonal (<em>MARN<\/em>, 4\/11\/85).<\/li>\n<li>Clearfield switched to sending all students in 9-12 to Lenox for one year, 1986-87 (<em>MARN<\/em>, 12\/26\/85). The high school situation remained unsettled and ended up in a \u201cfirst of its kind\u201d program that allowed students to go to Diagonal, Mt. Ayr, or Lenox (<em>MARN<\/em>, 6\/25\/87). This arrangement appears to have remained in place despite various feints toward other combinations (<em>Lenox Time Table<\/em>, 7\/1\/87; <em>LTT<\/em>, 10\/9\/94; <em>LTT<\/em>, 4\/23\/97).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Probably not helping: A superintendent quitting after one year \u2014 and announcing it on July 30 (<em>MARN<\/em>, 8\/7\/86).<\/li>\n<li>Diagonal stopped sending grades 6-8 to Clearfield in 1991, resulting in Clearfield extending its three-way-split open enrollment to grades 7-12 (<em>MARN<\/em>, 1\/24\/91).<\/li>\n<li>At one point, a Clearfield-Lenox deal died for, among many other things, \u201cpolitical and social problems between the two school districts\u201d (<em>Clearfield Chronicle<\/em>, 11\/2\/94).<\/li>\n<li>This does make the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/carving-up-clearfield-snakes-and-ladders\/\">crazy-quilt carve-up of Clearfield in 2014<\/a>\u00a0a little more understandable. The extension of the Diagonal district into the town of Clearfield itself by using 170th Street came late in the process (<em>Diagonal Progress<\/em>, 7\/25\/13).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a reader&#8217;s letter, I dug in on the history of the Clearfield school for the 1982-92 school years. It got so complicated I had to make a spreadsheet. The Clearfield district, on the Taylor\/Ringgold county line, dissolved in 2014. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/clearing-up-clearfield\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14855,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825\/revisions\/14855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}