From the South Hills Record:
When the mud cleared and the South Fayette coaches, players and team managers had finished doing celebratory belly flops in the boggy marsh that moonlighted for Brentwood Stadium's turf....

A few months ago the Duquesne High School was dissolved by the state after it was determined that the school could not provide its students with an adequate education, advanced classes, and/or extra-curricular activities.

Brentwood certainly has not reached the level of Duquesne but if you have a child in Brentwood High School you may be interested in the following information as to how we compare with the Baldwin-Whitehall School District:

Sports offered by Brentwood High School:

Track and Field/Cross Country
Football
Girls Basketball
Girls Volleyball
Girls Softball
Baseball
Swimming
Golf

Brentwood Middle School
Swimming
Track and Field

Sports offered by Baldwin-Whitehall High School:

Baseball
Boys Basketball
Boys Basketball - 9th
Girls Basketball
Girls Basketball - 9th
Boys Cross Country
Girls Cross Country
Football
Football - J.V.
Football - 9th
Boys Golf
Gymnastics
Boys Intramurals
Boys Intramurals - 9th
Girls Intramurals
Co-Ed Intramurals
Girls Lacrosse
Girls Lacrosse-J.V.
Personal Fitness - summer
Personal Fitness - winter
Boys Soccer
Girls Soccer
Softball
Boys Swimming
Girls Swimming
Boys Tennis
Girls Tennis
Track (Indoor)
Boys’ Track and Field
Girls’ Track and Field
Boys Volleyball
Girls Volleyball
Girls Volleyball - 9th
Wrestling
Wrestling - 9th
Bowling
Inline Hockey
Hockey
Boys Lacrosse

Baldwin-Whitehall Middle School
Baseball
Boys Basketball
Girls Basketball
Boys Cross Country
Girls Cross Country
Football
Intramurals Fall
Intramurals Winter
Boys Soccer (incl. 9th grade)
Girls Soccer
Softball
Boys Swimming
Girls Swimming
Track and f\Field
Girls Volleyball
Boys Volleyball
Wrestling

All this along with a beautiful stadium, track, and new facilities.

What's wrong with this picture? Our School taxes are higher in Brentwood and look at what the children receive.

Last year the B-W School District asked to initiate consolidation and/or merger talks with the Brentwood School Board. They were summarily turned down and told that there was nothing to discuss, that Brentwood was fine on its own.

Well after reviewing the list above do you think the Brentwood School District is fine? What do you get for you children while paying one of the "highest" school tax rates in the State of Pennsylvania!

What is the issue? It is the School Board you keep electing. Their focus is narrowed to block out any information that does not fit within the realm of their understanding, or that which may threaten their own status-quo.

For some of these directors, (bereft of similar responsibility in their standard professions), cling to the influence and prestige of elected office with a "bulldog's" grip. Unwilling to even consider the benefits to be realized by our poor community (and children) through a merger with the Baldwin-Whitehall district.

The children pay the highest cost for the self-centered course taken by these directors, for along with the tax burden we are forced to bear, the students are provided with a minimum of activities, while their peers not one mile distant enjoy benefits unthinkable in Brentwood.

Making matters worse, Brentwood in its poverty and pride, refuses to even discuss the subject of consolidation with the visionary directors of the B-W district who have held out their hands in generosity and cooperation.

We are shackled by the bands of so-called "Brentwood Pride", which in this case is nothing more than arrogance, coupled with ignorance, overlaid insolence, being waived as a rallying flag by these "small-minded" school directors, being followed by uninformed citizens.

In order for Brentwood to change, for our children to be considered, for our tax burden to be lightened, these directors must change, - or be changed. That is the central issue.

(If you don't agree scroll up and look at the list once again.)