Oh wait… thats a different editorial….

thats the one for if we had TAKEN them as teachers…

However, I’m pretty sure the issue that the school districts have is that teachers in this program don’t have education degrees. Usually they majored in something else (such as biology) and they go on to teach a subject familiar to their field.

You’d think, though, with a shortage of teachers and funds, poor districts would take what they can get.

Even for you, that’s a pretty silly premise; that the choice between sending our kids to public or private schools actually represents a “choice.” That’s akin to letting convicts pick their prison and calling it choice…

The kids who most need choice in SC don’t have it because of their income level, and won’t ever get it from our crappy educational bureaucracy.

(sorry, Cooter Brown),

Ye have school choice, bubba. And ye know it.

Everyone in S.C. is free to send kids to public school or private school.

Just do not try to play your voucher scam. The voucher scam would only leave those who need help the most even further behind.

You and Howie’s other voucher clowns know that.

Vouchers are dead in S.C. Jakie said so.

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Watch their stupid voucher scam rhetoric.

You know. Cr@p like: “public education establishment that obviously doesn’t care about the children.”

Even the worst voucher pimps know that is a lie. Pure lie.

Of course, Will has to take a valid point and screw it up with his oft-repeated and still-misleading claim about how money is spent on education in South Carolina. I won’t bother to unravel that claim this go-round.

And I’m interested to know more about all the folks “lining up” to start private schools. That’ll be important, of course, if choice is to work at all — after all, the established private schools aren’t generally much interested in taking our state’s most struggling students.

Anyway, I haven’t heard much talk here in the Upstate of anyone starting new private schools, but maybe they’re out there. I just don’t know. I’d be interested, of course, whether they really have the means (facilities, endowments, transportation services, know-how, etc.) to actually open credible schools.

But, back to my earlier point — yeah, the way we certify teachers is, in my opinion, an area that needs great improvement, and turning away Teach for America candidates seems totally absurd.

Does the notion that anything other than the status quo might work a little better for scare y’all that much?

Not a voucher story. Really. Not.