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The Guilford County Board of Education hasn't given up on its plans to buy land in Triad Business Park for the airport area high school. In fact, the board will seek approval from county commissioners on Thursday. Read more about this in Tuesday's paper.

Apparently, the school board wants to repeating the mistakes it made with southeast area elementary and negotiating to buy land that the commissioners didn't support. However, Kernersville leaders oppose rezoning industrial land for a school. Read some context here.

"I hate to see this become like the southeast area elementary land, where we keep going back and back and back to the commissioners," school board member Ed Price said. "We do not have a site B. I wish we did."

The request is on the consent agenda, but Commissioner Kirk Perkins said the item won't stay there. He has a lot of questions about the purchase, including the price (up to $86,500 per acre or $10.8 million) and the location.

"I just have some questions," Perkins said. "It seems like a tremendous amount of money."

Note that the board is allowed to buy land for the school, but commissioners have delayed building it until the economy improves.