Neal Boortz Is Moving In On Our Girl
Who is this Neal Boortz? And who does he think he is hugging up on our girl like that?
Seriously, Dutch Fork (S.C.) High School “teacher-of-the-millennium” Kelly Payne is our fantasy, not his.
Only we can be “hot for teacher,” people. No one else.
Wait, Neal Boortz is famous, you say? He’s a published author with a nationally-syndicated radio show? His audience makes ours look like the last meeting of the Spring Valley Model Shipbuilders Club?
Oh … damn …
In all seriousness, though, congrats to Kelly – who took several of her “It” kids with her to the big “Fair Tax” rally yesterday to meet Boortz, who wrote one of the books her current issues class has been studying.
And sure enough, there’s Kelly on Boortz’s website.
Comments
By Dominique Blasingame on April 16th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I am a former member of the interact/rotary club.. I am also a former student of Ms. Payne which is a dear friend of mine. I am a college student at Midlands Technical College and I keep up with the club and events to this day. I am also huge on politics and what goes on around the country because i feel as a young adult that we are the future of the world today. My dad always says we are the Tomorrows Future. So why not start now? When we are young and fresh!!!
By friend of a friend. on April 16th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
But seriously, lets give a big thanks to God who works in the most mysterious of ways for this event to have occured. :)
I’m so proud to be one of the “It Kids” and to have experienced Ms. Payne’s enthusiasm concerning current local, national, and international political and cultural news. Her class really has changed my perspective of news and has made me more interested. By becoming more interested, it is evident I have become more involved as i joined her to this rally.
I can honestly say that the time spent being active was well worth it.
Thank you Ms. Payne and you too Sic, for featuring us and giving us such a helpful boost on our road to becoming more well-known.
-One of the It Kids.
By An ardent admirer of Ms. Payne on April 16th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Wow. See what happens when local talent is ignored by the locals? She goes national!! Congrats Ms. Payne!!!
By jacob hawkins on April 17th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Go Mrs.payne and i wish i could of gone but i had baseball next time i want to meet him
By Toyota Kawaski on April 17th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Dominique Blasingame do you still have any eligibility left SOS sure could use you.
By Terah Counts on April 17th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I really enjoyed the Fair Tax Rally. The speeches from everyone were awesome!!
This was a chance of a lifetime opportunity for a young person to meet a former presidential candidate and a well-known radio talk show host and author in one night.
My class has been studying taxation, deficit spending, the stimulus/bailout issues involving the 10th Amendment, etc. I was able to follow what the speakers were discussing because of that. However, I was disappointed in how the mainstream media covered this event. WIS and ABC The State Paper were biased in their reporting. In my opinion they made the people who were in attendance look like right wing extremists. This is why people need to keep themselves informed on what is going on in the world around them and don’t rely on just one perspective. It preserves what democracy we have left.
By R on April 18th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Out here in Irmo, we like to say that God broke the mold when He made Kelly Payne!
We’re grateful for her involvement in the community, as well as her work to inspire young people to become involved. If only more public school educators were as involved as she is outside the classroom…
I also should mention that, through the diversity of speakers she has had address her civics class(from Henry McMaster and the S.C. Policy Council to Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Jim Rex and Harry Ott), she is teaching students a valuable lessons about civil discourse and respecting those who hold divergent views.