C’mon, WIll. I don’t think anyone with a lick of sense (about 10 people in SC) thinks Jim Rex or Karen Floyd or your “school choice” ideas or Rex’s “school choice” ideas are going to bring any drastic change to the problems plaguing the SC public education system.

Our problems in this state run a bit deeper than a voucher or more funding could fix. I don’t think we need either, by the way.

Nor do we need to keep on and on with the partisan bickering over the most important thing in this state.

But damnit…here I go anyway.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

No. I don’t want to.

Rex won and it was the folks in YOUR party that crossed the line to give that win to him. What the hell was up with that? I think if the SCGOP supports vouchers then you should ask them why they didn’t vote for your candidate. Not blame Rex because they did.

Do I believe Rex is the savior of SC public education? Of course not. He’s one man. As I said…SC has some real problems that a voucher NOR funding will fix.

Throwing money at poor schools isn’t the answer and further segregating the upper crust with vouchers isn’t either. It is 2007 and SC needs to learn what public schools are for…to educate the public. Not reform the school system to meet the needs of the neighborhoods with the most money. Or give these people a “credit” because they want to segregate their kids from the “public” school kids. The public schools need to be reformed to give all us a decent base of educated citizens that know how to follow the rules and read and write–wow, that’d be nice. College prep? Are you kidding me? What if we work on getting maybe half the class to write a complete sentence?

I don’t even know what the hell I’m rambling about now.

Anyhoo, all I was trying to say is that we need to overcome some of the social attitudes and issues plaguing our state–maybe then we’ll see some changes in the public education system. Jim Rex can’t change that nor could K-Flo. You and I can talk conservative and liberal views on the issues on how to protect and educate the children of SC all day, we could agree to disagree and work our asses off together to fix public education and get nowhere…why would we get nowhere? Because most people don’t value an education in this state much less care about the children of SC on the whole.

it is a deep rooted issue though and I have no idea where we start to fix it but we need more than bandaids….

damnit. i haven’t thought about this for almost 2 months. And it all just came flooding back…thanks alot.

:-) t