Wednesday, January 23, 2008

SC Schools Are Second in Something

I'm not sure the SC Department of Education should be proud of this latest statistic. Doesn't it suggest that South Carolina's public school students are among the poorest in the nation?

South Carolina school breakfast participation rates rank second in the nation, state’s efforts commended

Participation by South Carolina students in the school breakfast program last year was 101 percent, and the ratio of serving free and reduced price students at lunch and breakfast was the second highest in the nation, according to a report by the Food Research and Action Center. The School Breakfast Scorecard 2007 gives data for all states and highlights successful strategies.


The rest of the press release can be found on the SC Department of Education website.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Participation by students was 59%.

Anonymous said...

If this is a way to get a healthy breakfast to kids each day (something that too many parents regardless of income levels aren't doing), then maybe that can eventually be a good thing for all of us. It could help reduce childhood weight issues and quite possibly lessen dangerous driving conditions caused by a car full of people (including the driver) are all eating breakfast behind the wheel at 55 miles per hour. Sit down and enjoy breakfast without the distractions. SC public schools may be on to something. Now if they could just figure out how to make the rest of the school day as productive.

Anonymous said...

I see CCSD is up to their old tricks of putting out for print only the good news. In 2 separate incidents yesterday a 4 year old was left on their bus, one for an hour and a half, and nothing is on the news or in the paper. Printing only the touchy feely stuff is the same as lying: Guilty by omission

Anonymous said...

Add this to the spin factory at CCSD. Hillery Douglas cries about who's going to pay for the $24 million in "needed" repairs at Rivers before the Charter School for Math and Science can "safely" begin to use the now nearly vacant building. He neglected to say that the Adult Education program currently is housed on part of the first floor and is in no appearent danger.

Good for those who are calling Hillery's bluff. Voters should defeat county school board members next November who are so willing to throw around millions just to block a charter school. Moreover, voters should be asking tough questions about just how well capital funds and buildings are being handled. Somehow I think CCSD isn't giving local taxpayers their money's worth as it is. Hillery can't blame the legislature for that.

Since Hillery often makes known his contempt for "free day care" found in CCSD schools and freely denigrates those who take advantage of those opportunities, maybe he might like to suggest eliminating CCSD's breakfast program to fund all the "needed" repairs to CCSD buildings.