 Would you rather pay $650 or $66 for a smart phone? Simple. With the Appalachian Advantage Plan, pay less upfront and then just a few dollars more every month. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Floyd County buses were full as they arrived at the Mountain Arts Center Monday morning, but the passengers were not students. More than a thousand faculty and staff from the Floyd County School District gathered for their annual Back to School kickoff. We like to enter our school year with a lot of energy and enthusiasm and this day sets the tone for that. So our theme this year was to be your own kind of rock star. We've had a rock and roll band play and we've got all kinds of great things going on in there. Just so much school spirit and it just sets the tone for what the school year looks like in Floyd County. We're going about changing maybe even the way we approach education in Floyd County. I know they've always been very successful with their test scores and we have kind of changed a little bit of the way we look at that. We're educating now for opportunities and not just test scores. So we're pushing not just college but trade schools, internships, tech schools. I think the average age of a plumber right now is 52 years old. With that being said, what are we going to do? What are we going to do when they all retire? So we need plumbers. We need electricians. We need welders. We need all those folks that step in and learn a trade and I can tell you right now from experience I've got students that have gone into those professions and they're making more money than I'm making right now. And it's not always about making money. It's about being happy with what you're doing. But with that being said, we want them to define their own success, whether it be, again, college degrees, doctors, lawyers, teachers, or plumbers, welders, electricians. The first day of school in Floyd County is Wednesday, August 7th.