Like Virginia, Stoopids …
By FITSNews || This is relatively old news, but we thought it was worth noting as the debate over parental choice in South Carolina continues to rage on …
Recently-elected Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell – who runs a non-backward state in which he is permitted to appoint his Education Secretary – has tapped parental choice advocate Gerard Robinson of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) to fill this post.
You can read more about Robinson’s appointment by clicking here. And yes, he’s black.
BAEO’s mission is to “increase access to high-quality educational options for black children by actively supporting parental choice policies and programs that empower low-income and working-class black families.”
In other words, it’s precisely the opposite of S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex’s mission, which is to take record amounts of funding and waste it on a bloated bureaucracy while fighting to suppress parental choice and then blaming everybody else when (surprise) academic achievement still sucks donkey balls.
And let’s not forget the manipulation of academic data to make it look like more students are passing exams, which is compounded by the fact that Rex remains the only Superintendent in America who refuses to release his state’s African-American graduation rate …
Hmmmm … wonder which state is serving black children? And which one isn’t?
Of course the point isn’t to help poor black kids do better in school, it’s to help all South Carolina children do better in school …
Comments
By Jack on March 10th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
No, in SC is about helping people who are already in private school pay for their private school with the help of the taxpayers. If you want to help students who are currently in failing school systems, that is a great idea. But if the private school crowd wants a taxpayer hand out, no dice.
As I keep asking with no answer, if your kids are in private school and I have no kids in public school at all how are we different. If you get a tax break for not using the public schools, I should get a tax break for not using the public schools, and if everybody who has no kids in public school gets a tax break we will not have public schools. Maybe that is your goal. If so, say so. But don’t ask me to help you pay for your kid’s private school, when you can afford to pay for it yourself, and you have a viable public school I am already paying for.
By Darth on March 10th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
In what sense do you mean “serving black children”? Chekced out the mystery meat in the cafeteria?
By BIN News Editorial Staff on March 10th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
sic(k) willie is such a political pimp for Howie the Voucher Clown.
Nothing new. Just more voucher scam rhetoric. Rob from the poor to give to the rich. Howie and “The Rich.” Like the pun?
Howie’s voucher scam would only leave those who need help the most even further behind. Voucher scams do nothing for real problems in education.
You know.
Poverty.
Lack of funding.
The social ills that go along.
Vouchers are dead in SC. Period. Just ask a Midlands’ elected official.
By Toyota Kawaski on March 12th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Yesah Mr. Rich right away sirs. We are bent over as far as possible. Yeash