Comments on: Education Leaders Endorse Sheheen, Bad Grammar

By: Freddie Guy

Freddie Guy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:03:03 +0000

baker:

Trizzle.

Fred

By: baker

baker — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:57:38 +0000

I’ll give Will this much…..he’s pretty darn good with the English language.

He can string some words together.

By: Ned

Ned — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:26:29 +0000

-FITS

If you’re going to criticize the “friggin’ teacher of the year” and the Lt. Governor for using improper grammar, you should use proper grammar in the criticism at the very least.

By: Student Talk

Student Talk — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:19:09 +0000

Thank you for sharing this information..

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:49:03 +0000

GUYS –

I AM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN DEMOCRATC. I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR JIM REX IF MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT. HE AHS NOT DONE ONE THING FOR THE PEOPLE OF SC IN EDCUATION. HE LIED ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE AND COMPLETELY BACKED AWAY FROM HIS COMMITMENT TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. I KNOW BLACKS WHO ARE READY TO KILL THIS CAMPAIGN AND I AM JOINING THEM!!!

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:21:23 +0000

OET-

Yeah but we’re not the friggin’ teacher of the year, dude.

-FITS

By: Groundball

Groundball — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:07:11 +0000

By the time this one’s over, he may not look so bad to a lot of us. With everyone in the GOP getting down and dirty, political advisors taking every opportunity to cut the opponent’s ass and credibility, the current Gov being run out on a rail by his own party rather than doing the right thing, on and on and on and on, people may be sick of the faces and the names in 14 months.

By: OET

OET — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:46:18 +0000

“fitsnews”

I guess you were brought up thinking it was okay to write, “Well, assuming you think the endorsement of those responsible for our state’s ‘epic academic fail’ is something to be proud of.” Your writing contains the same grammatical mishap for which you fault Bauer.

By: Do What?

Do What? — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:46:05 +0000

Wait, so we want someone who came from our dead last terrible public school system to lead our already disembattled state? Does anyone else see the continuing problem here? Obviously state education has not only had an effect to our “young” but isn’t our old that was educated as well? and Camden does not have the best schools….

By: SC Moderate

SC Moderate — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:44:29 +0000

I like (and typically agree with) these side-line posts…

However, one big problem with the logic of this one (IMO):

You are basically alluding to unqualified teachers as the problem with public education. When in fact, one of the biggest concerns with vouchers, especially in a state like SC (vs largest cities such as Milwaukee), is that it will lead to many startup private schools where kids are being taught by unqualified teachers… Because the fact is, SC does not have an excess of private schools to accommodate the exodus from public education- so you will get small startups.

Do you think Orangeburg Prep is just going to open its doors to every kid who it unhappy with their public school? In other rural areas trying vouchers, there have been small start-ups (often at churches) with unqualified teachers and curriculum. (Since the goal of the private sector is to turn a profit… cost cutting could easily take precedent over looking out of the educational good of the students).

And my bet is, the same percentage (and probably a higher %) of teachers in these small private schools have a habit of ending their sentences with prepositions as well.

I know its trendy to say Government is all bad, all the time. (Under such thinking, why not try competition with private military…wait I think we have tried that one a bit… and weren’t they great a being fiscally responsible). At some point we need to get back to a balanced look at reality and realize that in some areas, there is a role for government. And look for creative ways to improve public education itself, rather than screaming- competition is the answer.