We occasionally get dinged around here at FITS for the truth serum we distribute regarding South Carolina’s worst-in-the-nation public school system.
Like when we refer to certain failing public schools as “dropout factories.” Which duh … they are … increasingly so as a matter of fact.
Anyway, last week the man most responsible for perpetuating and preserving this pathetic agreed with us.
“I sometimes – I probably should use this word – but I sometimes call these areas dropout factories,” Rex said at a Department of Education-sponsored Town Hall meeting in Greenville, S.C. last Thursday.
Here’s the video courtesy of our friends over at The Voice:
Wow.
In addition to the soothing strains of Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata (one of Sic’s favorite pieces to play) … note the “providing more choice within public education” banner behind him.
Seriously, we’re sure the .001% of South Carolina children who would actually benefit from “public school choice” will really appreciate that.
The rest of the video gets even better, with Rex blaming inadequate facilities, bad teachers, poor curriculum and – our personal favorite – “low expectations” for our schools’ chronic failure.
Like we said … Rex running for governor is a friggin’ gold mine …
By FITS Gals June 4, 2009 at 4:22 pm
No Sir Sic,
It’s our favorite piece to play, we will take you on any day of the week bossman.
xoxo,
The Gals
By BIN News Editorial Staff June 4, 2009 at 7:45 pm
sic(k) willie is such a voucher pimp.
He knows Howie’s voucher scam does nothing to help drop out rates because vouchers do nothing to help kids who need help the most.
It only leaves them further behind.
Vouchers won’t fix the poverty and the related social ills. Vouchers won’t fix the latent racism. Vouchers won’t fix the funding problems.
sic(k) willie recently blogged about “cooked crack.”
Our staff must trust his judgment regarding “cooked crack” since we don’t have his wealth of experience. But anyone who believes the voucher scam will help all children is certainly high on something.
Maybe it’s the smell of Howie’s voucher scam payoffs.
The best voucher pimps that carpetbugger money can buy.
By Liberty for me June 4, 2009 at 10:56 pm
PUBLIC SCHOOL IS A SCAM AND A SOCIALIST MACHINE!!
By Not Quite June 5, 2009 at 8:58 am
BIN – guess the payoffs for SCEA, SCASA, SCSBA, NEA, DRC, and all the other who profit from dropout factories are the moral high gound!