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H/T to The Voice for School Choice

After a year of poor SAT scores and bottom-line PACT proficiency, news of an across-the-board drop in the number of schools making “Adequate Yearly Progress” is just bad icing on an already inedible cake.

Parents have already had to hear that even the best performing school districts in South Carolina are still hundreds of points below public schools in North Carolina. Now, figures from the State Department of Education show that only 1 out of every 5 schools in South Carolina met goals for “Adequate Yearly Progress.”

Of all the public schools in South Carolina, only a pitiful 18% managed to meet federally-defined Adequate Yearly Progress Goals for 2008. That breaks down to 715 of the state’s 875 elementary and middle schools failing to meet their goals! Of the 200 high schools in the state, 165 failed to meet their AYP goals.

So here is what I want to know.  How many parents will still vote to reelect their school boards in these failing districts, which is most of the state?  What will the incumbent retention rate be?  How many voters will support Jim Rex in his reelection bid or in what ever further political ambitions he has?  How many voters will actually start paying attention to what these people running for these offices are saying what the problem is and what they will do to fix it and how many voters will actually take the time to do the research to know whether or not these people are correct their diagnoses or totally clueless?

I’ve said it before and I am going to keep saying it again.  The only reason the South Carolina school system is as appealing as mold in dirty gym shoes is because of the voters!  You elect these people to run these school systems and you’re getting exactly what you have elected.  Stop being so damn lazy and stand up and fight for your childrens’ futures!

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