Comments on: Rex’s Consultant Tab Soars

By: BSer

BSer — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:38:13 +0000

it seems that mr rex is paying our money to someone that can tell him what he should already know. he was supposed to be the education expert, at least that’s what he said while running for the job

By: Alvin Green Cousin

Alvin Green Cousin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:55:46 +0000

All that money simply created more Redneck Republican Tea Party idiots for the future……

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:56:22 +0000

Well Baker whatever it is he’s spending a shit ton more than last year on it – with the same shitty results.

-FITS

By: snodgrass

snodgrass — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:35:04 +0000

I think you guys are being overly critical of our educational system.

Just think of all the jobs it’s going to create over at the Department of Corrections.

By: baker

baker — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:29:35 +0000

What this “report” lacks — of course — is any context at all, any explanation for what these expenditures are going toward. If Will Folks or “The Voice” (SCRG) can uncover that this money is going to wasteful, goofy stuff, then great. But we don’t know much by simply looking at these numbers.

For example, what is “SERVE Center at UNCG”? I looked it up, and it’s apparently a program aimed at working with schools and educators on improving the educational process. Now, it may be a bogus program, for all I know, with lousy ideas and results. Or, it may be a really great, cutting-edge deal that will make a difference for SC in time to come. Moreover, the money paid by the SC DOE may be tied to something like teacher recertification or professional development required by state or federal law.

In other words, it isn’t at all clear that Jim Rex is simply out there throwing money around.

By: Hmmmmm

Hmmmmm — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:17:06 +0000

So that equates to almost 100 teacher’s jobs lost based on what he spent! So the next time J-Rex calls and wants a bigger budget or he will have to fire teachers that need to tell him to take it out of the consultant budget first!

By: Slim

Slim — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:10:01 +0000

We should start a state lottery and use the proceeds to help fund education. No, wait. Nevermind.

By: Greenville Girl

Greenville Girl — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:37 +0000

Thank goodness he didn’t win his primary! Considering SC’s “wonderful” reputation of throwing money for education at everything and everyone EXCEPT the teachers and the students, at what point will the legislature realize that our government needs to be O-V-E-R-H-A-U-L-E-D?

I think the majority of the members of our legislature can only spell a few words:

T-A-X
S-P-E-N-D
W-A-S-T-E
L-I-E
C-H-E-A-T
S-T-E-A-L
S-E-X
D-R-U-G-S
A-L-C-O-H-O-L

And not necessarily in this order. A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y is definitely not in the list of words they need to learn. Hell, half of them probably couldn’t even spell it correctly if it weren’t for spell check.

By: Tunes'n''News

Tunes'n''News — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:02:24 +0000

If you were running a school district in this state which has just shifted substantial funding from predictable property tax to wildly varying sales tax, you’d keep reserve funds too. I think that’s a non-issue. Not that there aren’t lots of education/funding issues to discuss.