Enrollment numbers are in for the new Charleston Charter School for Math and Science, proposed for the Rivers Middle School site. School officials say they're on track with diversity goals.
Park Dougherty, chairman of the Charter Committee says they sent out 180 enrollment packages to students selected in a lottery. Parents had two weeks to return forms confirming enrollment, and for the first time they now have a clear picture of the school's diversity makeup. Fifty-two-percent of 120 students who returned their enrollment forms are White; 41-percent are African American; and 7-percent are Hispanic, Asian, or multi cultural; 30-percent are on free or reduced lunch.
Charleston-branch NAACP President Dot Scott, who has opposed the school at every turn, is left to mumble about keeping diversity. Pitiful, isn't she?
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Children should go to the school they are assigned to by there district based on their address. That would pretty much end this issue and let educators concentrate on, let's see, educating.
But then you have rules like No Child Left Behind that allow parents to choose to remove their kids from their assigned school zone. Then add to that administrators who fix it so that some people can go to certain schools while others can't, even with NCLB. Throw in "special" schools like Buist designed only for the well connected. These conditions have turned CCSD into a sinking oceanliner with thousands of passengers faced with only a few lifeboats that CCSD chose to provide.
Successful charter schools like Orange Grove, James Island High and now the new Math & Science are showing the rest of us what a scam CCSD has been. Dot Scott is reduced to mumbling because its obvious that she has steered this issue along the wrong route and left "her" people to drown.
According to the news story, "Charleston NAACP president Dot Scott, says she is concerned about maintaining diversity at the new school. The school is proposed for the Rivers Middle School site, but there is no final agreement from the district, and right now the issue over whether or not the school will have to pay the district rent is still pending."
It's time for CCSD to either fish or cut bait. So far it looks like county school board leaders are standing in the way of excellence and choice. Not good image for them during an election year.
Somehow all these attempts to obstruct and block this parent driven new public school just remind me of Aesop's fable of the "Dog in the Manger". They can't do anything with it, but when someone comes along who can, like a dog in a manger, Dot and others like her just bark, growl and threaten in order to keep all others away. How much longer can CCSD and the county school board try to block this group from making Rivers ready for this fall? So far it's been one delay after another while this group is clearly moving successfully along. You'd think CCSD was really getting worried that these grassroots parent groups behind the more successful charter schools might eventually show us the right way to organize public education in Charleston County.
From what I remember Dot Scott didn't send her own children or grandchildren to public school, so why does she have any say so? And Gregg, he was the one who put the rent back on the agenda then pulled it right back off. He is all for saying he supports no rent but doesn't raise that hand to vote for it
67 chevy are your ideals stuck in the same decade as your name? Open your eyes these schools are not the same!
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