Substandard

We don’t like being a broken record around here, people. Having to consistently call out South Carolina’s education establishment for their unforgivable failure to educate our kids (and their unmitigated contempt for our taxpayers) gives us no great pleasure. But South Carolina’s public schools - and more precisely our state’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to education - keep stinking up the joint, which is really saying a lot considering it’s hard to do much worse than last in the nation. Or is it? With a widening achievement gap between black and white students and test scores that show even our best schools trailing their peers in other states, South Carolina Superintendent Jim Rex is proving that you really can do less with more. The latest example of this trend is the news that only 18% of South Carolina schools are... [read full story]