Would you believe that Charleston County has a long history of depending on private schools?
I wouldn't either. Yet that's exactly what Superintendent Nancy McGinley told the P & C as quoted in Monday's article on new charter schools. According to McGinley, " the local interest in charter schools also could be tied to the area's strong history of private schools, and many parents have started looking to charter schools as an alternative to those tuition-based schools."
Get real, Nancy. For a city of its size, over its history Charleston has had a relatively SMALL percentage of its students enrolled in private schools. Check any other metropolitan area over the last 100 years, and you'll see what I mean. What McGinley should have said is that participation in private schooling has increased over the time period since the consolidation of Charleston County school districts. Even so, probably home schooling has been growing at a faster rate.
How long has she been in Charleston now? Or is she still taking her cues from some mentor at the Broad Foundation?
Monday, February 18, 2008
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Clelia,
What would you do if you didn't have someone else's work to criticize? Crawl back into your hole?
After telling everyone who you really are, I think it's about time I posted your home address and telephone number on here so you can take comments personally.
These comment were copied from Monday's P&C website which included the full article on the growing number of charter schools in Charleston County:
"McGinley said the local interest in charter schools also could be tied to the area's strong history of private schools, and many parents have started looking to charter schools as an alternative to those tuition-based schools."
That statement may be true today, but prior to CCSD, only a very small minority of Charleston County students attended private schools. McGinley isn't tell the whole story. CCSD has done more to send parents rushing to every possible alternative to it's failed policies of one size fits all. Why else would CCSD have gone from over 60,000 students in the 1970's to 41,000 students today? And this decline has happened as Charleston County's population has increased.
And the she says....
"...because more money would go to charter schools, she said. The district needs to figure out a way to ensure those schools are cost neutral, McGinley said."
Let's say it again Dr. McGinley: CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC MONEY SPENT ON THOSE STUDENTS ARE THE SAME AS IF THEY ARE IN A REGULAR PUBLIC SCHOOL. The only difference is that CCSD can't tell them how to spend it and each charter school is held accountable for its own performance.
The P&C is playing softball with CCSD administrators when it lets them get away with such rehearsed and back handed jabs at the whole concept of Charter Schools. Don't be fooled. All the way to its bones, CCSD HATES Charter Schools.
---- once again Babbie, you are dead on target.
what McGinley meant to say was that the CCSD depended on private schools to keep districts like district 20 oppressed.
Amen to that poster above me...
Hey, Mr. Crazy thinking we need her home address...that would be great. Then I can send her some flowers, thank you notes, some Omaha steaks, hell, maybe I'll even send her YOUR name and address.
Seattle has 25+% in private schools now. With MG-J's leadership that may increase. Can Charleston history match those numbers?
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