Comments on: Bumper Lanes For SC Schools

By: BIN News Editorial Staff

BIN News Editorial Staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:17:55 +0000

Get over it, sic(k) willie! Your scambagger voucher plan is dead in SC. Just ask Jake. Then tell your carpetbugger money masters at SCRG. Tell Howie, too.

You have been exposed. You know the real problems facing public education in SC include the shameful “minimally adequate” standard set by our Legislature, as well as funding problems, racism, poverty and the host of related social problems that come along with all that baggage.

What makes your scam even worse is that you guys know the real problems. But you refuse to even discuss them here. You just spout your scumbuggery.

BIN News Editorial Staff
Always Flair and Balanced

By: baker

baker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:40:16 +0000

I’m not a big fan of these recognitions and labels, in general. Indeed, it does become a little like getting excited because your football team made some third-tier bowl game. Moreover, I think teachers and principals in most schools, including those that don’t necessarily “make the cut” for these awards, are working hard to do their best with the kids they’re trying to teach. I’m not sure it’s entirely accurate to point to one school over another in this way.

At the same time, it is reasonable, I suppose, to recognize schools that are making progress — even if, as Will and the SCRG folks note, that progress doesn’t yet equal the success we’d all like to see. Particularly in tough schools, if teachers and administrators are finding successful innovations, then it’s probably good to call some attention to it.

I also guess that there is a certain amount of money set aside as an incentive for making progress, and they’re trying to figure out how to divvy that up. Creating these designations may be primarily about getting that money to the schools the EOC people think are most deserving.

But, yeah, I would agree that these labels — whether good or bad — do little to really give a clear picture of what’s going on in our schools.

By: Gene E. Nowak

Gene E. Nowak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:24:55 +0000

You would not want to stigmatize those “Educrats” as being failures and then have their peers ostracize them. That could possibly retard their intellectual growth.

The uninformed among us may feel that their ideas are retarded, but then we have not been properly indoctrinated in touchy-feely-protect-our turf ideas.

By: reggie

reggie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:07:27 +0000

wow, this is crap!!!

how are we supposed to move forward by awarding mediocracy? this is much like how USC fans act over a win in the Music City Bowl.

you cant let everybody be a winner because sooner or later, they’re going to lose. the kids who fail three classes but somehow manage to pass their grade by attending summer school go nowhere. the only way that SC education can get better is if we smack it in the face and start raising the bar.

i can see this plan now; “Hey Mr. Principal, we totally failed by the state’s expectations, but we still got this nice silver medal because little Johnny in the 10th grade knows what photosynthesis is!!! YAY!!!!!!”

its a load of bull.
how about this scenario: “Hey Mr. Principal, we totally failed by the state’s expectations. what do we do know?”

that would be a HUGE step forward for some school districts and a nice extra step for others.

sheeshhh people. stop rewarding crap and accept excellence!