Dont let South Carolina come here! For 21 years – yes, 21 years – a lawsuit filed on behalf of the students of Abbeville County and several other rural school districts, i.e. on behalf of the poorest students in the poorest school districts in the poorest counties of our state, has been tortuously working its way through the state’s court system. In November, the SC Supreme Court, in essence, ruled that students in the plaintiff districts were not even receiving the “minimally adequate” education to which they are entitled under previous Supreme Court rulings. However, the Court was not specific about what needed to be done, and left it up to the governor and legislature to develop and implement a plan to remedy the problem... At which point, Gov. Haley, with an assist from state Attorney General Alan Wilson, unveiled her solution: she quietly filed a motion asking the SC Supreme Court to throw out its November decision and try the case again…yes, the case that the students stuck in the failing school districts have been waiting on for the last 21 years. Ever since Haley’s and Wilson’s announcement a few days ago, I have struggled to come up with the right words to describe what they have done. So far, I’ve come up with several: outrageous – disgraceful – obscene – scandalous – stupid – hateful – cold hearted – cynical – insane – irresponsible – short sighted – shameful – Neanderthal – cruel – insulting and mean. And those are just the ones that are suitable for publication in a family newspaper.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 02:02:35 +0000
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