How Much Is This Nonsense Costing Us?
Since there’s obviously plenty of money to throw around on “education” in South Carolina, bureaucrats at the Ministry of Failure and Non-Competition (a.k.a. the State Department of Education) have created yet another shiny new government program to try and reduce the number of “dropout factories” in the Palmetto State.
Except the goal probably isn’t to reduce dropout factories, because that would mean no more shiny new government programs to implement, wouldn’t it?
And no more taxpayer-funded beach retreats and country club putting greens for school administrators, either.
Anyway, from the AP:
The department said Monday that 12 elementary and middle schools are taking part in the program called Early Connections.
Agency spokesman Pete Pillow says most dropout prevention programs are geared toward high schools. Experts think some students can mentally and emotionally drop out of school as early as first and second grade.
Yup … and failed bureacracies can also “mentally and emotionally drop out of school” as early as the 1970’s, but that hasn’t stopped South Carolina legislators from pumping billions of dollars into them over the past four decades with absolutely nothing but generational failure to show for it.
But relax, people. They have programs … shiny new government programs.
Comments
By Huhhh??? on August 18th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
You might want to read some out of state papers and find out that education problems exist in every state.
Your bunch has not wanted to work on them for the past 6+ years; just take money from someone who lives in another state, where they know so much about him, his voucher agenda can’t get anywhere.
What your bunch wants to do is bad mouth the state that provides you with a living while accomplishing nothing to improve anything.
Maggots.
By GnuBerry on August 18th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
FITS = obsessed with vouchers