CCSD uses buses labeled with different names: Charleston County Schools, South Carolina State Schools, and Durham School Services. [See Please Explain the CCSD Bus Fleet! of August 30 & its 15 attached comments.]I have a different question now:
What was a Durham School Services bus doing on Seven Farms Drive at 7:45 a.m. on a Thursday? That would be on Daniel Island in Berkeley County, CCSD!
Am I wrong? Does BCSD also use Durham School Services?
Update: Spotted again, this time at 3:15 p.m. on a Tuesday. Heading for Seven Farms Drive from the north side of Daniel Island, thus suggesting more than one student living on the island is being transported.
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It's funny that you're bringing this up. I've wondered the same thing and have actually asked CCSD employees to please explain the differences. Unfortunately, I received different answers that weren't consistent with what I saw.
There are evidently even different prices for operating buses depending on which name they have on them.
Maybe things have changed since I made my inquiries.
Wasn't this one of the Buist Academy students (with a fake downtown address) being picked up? I could be kidding or I could be serious.
We should be asking these questions...and getting answers that make sense. No answer usually mean either something wrong is going on or the people in charge are clueless themselves (which is wrong, too). How is CCSD spending nearly HALF BILLION DOLLARS a year?
An out of county bus route here and a favored contractor there...pretty soon we start hearing that classroom programs are being cut to "save money". So who's auditing this stuff?
Ghostryder here,
The buses that are have South Carolina on them are furnished by the state. The buses that have Charleston County are owned by the county. The ones with Durham on the side is owned by Durham. The buses that have Durham and South Carolina on them are driven by Durham drivers who are contracted by Charleston County. The buses with Charleston County on the side could be driven by a Durham driver or a coach or other Charleston County School Employee who has their CDL. These buses are used mainly for athletic teams or other school related activity. As far as picking a student in another county. I thought that one was against the law, but if they are using a Durham bus to do the deed. They may be able to skirt around the law because I know they cannot use state buses to do that deed. People should take pictures of who gets on the bus and then deliver them to this website the newspaper, the city paper, the news channels, and any other outlets of interest. You have to turn on the lights to get the cockroaches out of your house. Lights on please.
Why do you care, Clelia? You work for for a private school.
She cares because we care. It was Thomas Jefferson that said the future of a democracy is dependant on an educated and informed electorate. This is information the public has a right (and need) to know.
I agree with Ghostryder. Turn on the lights. If there's nothing wrong...fine, no harm done. But if it turns out to be a pest problem...call in the experts. This may be another OCR complaint, since CCSD won't send minority kids to Sullivan's Island. They say the transportation costs are too great. So why is a Daniel Island in Berkeley County getting on a Charleston County bus. Who knows the answer to this very simple question?
Let's restore public trust to public institutions.
Stop complaining and go work for one, then.
Ghostryder here,
I do know that First Student had contracts with other private schools. Where is the harm in finding out if this student is going to a private school or to a Charleston County School? The truth will always set you free.
Now what I do not understand is how a school like Sullivan's Island can be excluded from transfers from failing schools. Is there a clause that says that students can be stop from going to a school that is full on paper?
As far as cost, give me a break. I know a couple of years ago that there were students who lived in McCellanville and Awedaw and they were going to James Island Charter School and there were students who were coming from Baptist Hill and going to Wando. The transportation cost is a red herring and I thought that students could not be denied due to NCLB mandates.
The reason that students downtown can not get justice is because their parents or familes do not get involve because they have been taught to think they cannot make a change or difference and they believe it. Or the parents are so busy working two or three jobs that they do not have the time to get involve (I understand but you know your kid gets one opportunity for this education). Or the parents do not care about their kids. Their kids were just a by product of them searching a high via sex, drugs, or any feel good thing they wanted and they could care less as long as Johnny is out of their hair.
Trust me parents who cared about their kids education made sure that their kids were going to a school were their kids are learning.
If 75 Calhoun knew that people would come out by the hundreds or thousands to oppose their decisions, they would not do some of the things that they do. But the powers to be know that the poor do not fight for themselves and that the rich do and the well off have the time and resources to fight.
Remember a couple of years ago when the kid from Wando had written on a paper who he wanted to kill and he was suspended from school and I believed expelled and he was a white student, but when those two students at Buist wrote down in their journals how they would like to hurt a fellow classmate and then actually gave that student something that they were allergic too and the two students knew that student was allergic to that substance. The sad thing is the victim was forced move back to James Island, I believe and what happen to the two attackers. What happen in that situation? The parents got lawyers and before the constituent board could expelled those two students. The problem went away.
Sometimes I wonder if the left and right political entities of Charleston county have a secret alliance so that they can continue to maintain their power. You beat this dead horse and we will beat this one because the drones who support us like to hear this kind of rhetoric. We will keep this illusion alive so that we both can keep our power, but like we are fighting at each other. You know like how the wrestlin' promoter knows the outcome of the match before it starts.
Why has there not been a rally to open up Sullivan's Island to students from downtown? Or a rally to force the Board and Superintendent to create the same success that they have at Sanders-Clyde, Jeanne Moore, or Ashley River Creative Arts in schools that have continued to fail. Calhoun will never do nothing until enough people let them know how they feel. Do it by attending board meeting and the voting booth. Pressure should be coming from all areas of Charleston County. As long as we have this opinion that what happens downtown does not affect me in Mount Pleasant, West Ashley, or on James Island, we will get the same song and dance. Failing schools today means more welfare, prisons, and irresponsible and undereducated adults in the future. It is our choice, attack the problem now through education or continue the same path and let the problem get bigger. It is cheaper to educate a student now than to house a prisoner. What at the worst school we spend around $8,000 a year per student and in prison we spend $30,000 a year per prisoner. Which is more wasteful. We all make choices.
If a bus took Gregg Meyers kids from Sullivan's Island to Buist and Robert New's kids from Folly Beach to Buist then downtown children can be transported to Sullivan's Island. This is all about race.
Did Alice Paylor (another beach resident) send her kid to Buist too? Did Janet Rose put her daughter on a bus from her beach home when she went to Buist? If it's good enough for these powerful people why not free transportation for downtown kids to Sullivan's Island? That school is obviously not good enough for school board members that have beach addresses but plenty of downtown kids would thrive in that environment.
Alice Paylor's child went to private schools. Janet Rose's child went to Buist. For those who don't know, Janet Rose is the keeper of the lists & the lottery's manipulator for Buist.
I know this is off the subject of transportation but which one was it that gave the YCAT to a young African American child and told him rudely "you are not Buist material" a few years back?
Unfortunately, it has come to my attention according to the state department of education...office of Jim Rex...It is not against the law that Berkley county residents attend Charleston county schools.
In addition it is up to the CCSD if the want to charge the parents of these students. This is how they get away with everything. There is not law that prevents them. With Buist, they are violating their own admission's policy. The only thing that will ever stop them is a change of the school board or a law suit.
Isn't Tara Lowry the person named on a lawsuit against CCSD?
Thank you to her for being willing to stand up to CCSD and the politics of this town.
In fact, I heard they finally have a hearing coming up on Dec. 17. Has anyone else heard that?
To the anonymous poster above Ms. Lowry, I have no doubt numerous African-American children have been told they're not "Buist material."
White children and their parents have been told the same thing. What's your point?
Are you with me on getting rid of the YCAT and Sallie Ballard?
Thank you, Ghostryder...You clearly have been around a bit and know what you're talking about.
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. You make some powerful statements and I enjoy reading them.
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