[See Statistical Analysis for Sunday's article.]
Manigault must be on his way to the hospital with a heart attack after seeing CCSD's List of Shame published, especially as the comparable lists for Berkeley and Dorchester 2 were so short.
Statistics. In the course of the investigation, schools that had fewer than 40 black or 40 white students were eliminated from analysis. According to a companion article on the statistical methods used,
"The sample size eliminated nearly half, or 37 of 82, of the schools or programs from analysis in Charleston County. Students in three programs — the Special Day School, Septima P. Clark Corporate Academy and Montessori Community School — were counted separate from any school, which led to Charleston having 82 different schools rather than 79.No surprise to frequent readers of this blog. Did any schools in District 20 (besides Buist) make the cut? See for yourself.Politano said [. . . ] In Charleston, 30 of the schools had fewer than 20 students who were in the school's racial minority, and 22 of the excluded schools had fewer than 10 students in the racial minority." [italics mine]
The List of Shame: SCHOOLS ELIMINATED FROM ANALYSIS
Berkeley:
Cainhoy Elementary/Middle, J.K. Gourdin Elementary, St. Stephen Middle
Charleston:
Baptist Hill High, C.C. Blaney Elementary, Brentwood Middle, Burke High, Edmund A. Burns Elementary, Charleston Development Academy, Charleston Progressive Academy, Chicora Elementary, Septima P. Clark Corporate Academy, Matilda F. Dunston Elementary, East Cooper Montessori Charter, Wilmot J. Fraser Elementary, Edith Frierson Elementary, Garrett Academy, Haut Gap Middle, Malcolm Hursey Elementary, James Simons Elementary, Jane Edwards Elementary, Lincoln High, Mary Ford Elementary, McClellanville Middle, Memminger Elementary, Military Magnet Academy, Minnie Hughes Elementary, Julian Mitchell Elementary, Montessori Community, Mount Pleasant Academy, Mt. Zion Elementary, Murray-LaSaine Elementary, R.D. Schroder Middle, Sanders-Clyde Elementary, Special Day School, St. James-Santee Elementary, St. Johns High, Sullivan's Island Elementary, Susan G. Boykin Academy, Greg Mathis Charter High
Dorchester District 2: None
If housing patterns in Charleston County really were this segregated, the list wouldn't be so shameful. Contemplate where Memminger Elementary is located, for example.
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No wonder the schools are what they are. You have every special interest group spinning the news as though they are right about the problems of the school system. It comes a time no matter what culture you come from. An adult should not have to constantly tell a student to stop their poor behavior or to get to work or just listen. Does Dot Scott mean that black culture teaches their children to be disrespectful toward any adult, black or white, that tries to make them behave because that is what I take away from her conversation. I wish that Dot Scott or anyone else who thinks this is all about black and white culture misunderstanding each other would teach in one of the worse schools in Charleston County and have the pressure of success and see if it is about culture or is it just about a bunch of kids who get their way at home as long as the adult in the house is not bothered and the only time that their is a negative consequences is when the adult is not in a good mood and then all hades comes bearing down on the kid. And another thing how is it that an elementary school in North Charleston can have students bring weapons on more than one occasion and not be expelled, suspended, or at least search each day they come to school or the rumor that a lot of gang banger wannabes and dropouts wander the halls of North Charleston High School everyday and are allowed to stay. You wonder why things are bad. People just look the other way so that the AYP can have a halfway chance of making the grade, meanwhile, schools are failing each year and students get another year behind and another year closer of dropping.
You would think the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) would be all over this by now. With data like this Dot Scott is stepping over dollars to pick up pennies. She's missing the real problem with Charleston County's public schools.
It might be nice if the Post and Courier followed up with this very interesting bit of information on just how segregated CCSD really is. And they tell us that CCSD will be calling for hundreds of millions of dollars in new school buildings. I wonder how many empty seat CCSD currently has. I always heard that segregation was an expensive luxury that required maintaining wasteful duplications. What do you say CCSD start working on eliminating this type of segrecation and in the end start saving some taxpayers' money in the process. I wonder if the editorial staff at the paper is even looking at any of this.
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