Comments on: Worse Is Getting Worse

By: Cut The Crap, Not The Calendar :: FITSNews

Cut The Crap, Not The Calendar :: FITSNews — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:55:08 +0000

[...] also raises another question – how on earth did we ever manage to provide five-day schooling (such as it is) to our students last year at the not-so-bargain-basement price of $11,400 per [...]

By: Mr. Smith Vs. The Media | FITSNews

Mr. Smith Vs. The Media | FITSNews — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:33:17 +0000

[...] giving the growing achievement gap in this state between white and black students, this institutional failure is particularly [...]

By: From All ‘Round | FITSNews For Now

From All ‘Round | FITSNews For Now — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:17 +0000

[...] as “Hatin’ on Howie” is pretty much the entire platform of the so-called “pro-public education” crowd. Anyway, you can watch the new clips here, here and [...]

By: rick

rick — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:05:25 +0000

Shame on you people for expecting these poor african-american children to act like….Asians. Since acting white is bad, how about Asians since they’re extremely high achievers. Racist? I don’t know, I only know that making excuses doesn’t help them or the community at large. Left to my own opinion, my answer is hunger and cold goes a long way to adjust attitudes. So much for blaming South Carolina for failing to teach the same segment of society that has whites and asians and african-americans sitting next to each other in a classroom. Sounds to me that Mom and Dad next some practice in Butt whupping.

By: baker

baker — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:01:31 +0000

The funny thing is, of course, that Mark Sanford’s PPIC plan — the one Will Folks used to be paid to tout — guaranteed nothing to the poorest students, those on the wrong side of the achievement gap. There was talk about “scholarship granting organizations” that MIGHT take off and fund tuition for the poorest students. But PPIC was not primarily targeted at the neediest children in the state.

And, of course, that says nothing of transportation, private school availability and admission requirements (would Heathwood Hall take those poor, struggling students out of Richland One? Doubtful.), and other practical hurdles to providing private school choice for students who are falling behind academically.

Considering also that success in school goes to issues far beyond the classroom — nutrition, help with homework, pre-natal healthcare, intellectual enrichment at home and in the community — the report cited by Will may also suggest that our state’s poorest people haven’t benefitted from the leadership of Gov. Sanford.

By: Palmetto Links - 07.09.08 : politicalnetroots.com

Palmetto Links - 07.09.08 : politicalnetroots.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:21:30 +0000

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By: Gene E. Nowak

Gene E. Nowak — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:12:58 +0000

We need to reward the SC Education system for its efforts. Granted they again failed miserabley, but then there are a few dollars in the voters pockets they have not yet confiscated for their use.

They are the rewarding the systems enablers with low cost housing and are going to build them a taxpayer funded retreat center in the mountians. That is sure to improve the Educrat’s hold on the purse strings.