Despite the facts Darby, unfortunately, continues to believe in the conspiracy theory of human behavior. All those well-meaning organizers of this new charter school, as the rant goes, are taking advantage of CCSD in order to create another all-white school downtown. Believe it or not, Darby cites Buist Academy and the Academic Magnet as proof of this conspiracy to make schools whiter. If only Darby could see beyond his nose to the conspiracy of silence that has made all other District 20 schools segregated, or, should we say, black? I guess that's not going to happen. No, apparently the Charleston NAACP will continue to make itself part of the problem in CCSD.
Meanwhile, Darby spouts inflammatory rhetoric concerning the approval of CSMS:
"It's worth noting, as my mother used to say, that you can't go the right way if you take the wrong road. Reservations about the charter school led to lengthy consideration by the school district, which ended only because of rude and profane coercion by school board member Arthur Ravenel, who took pride in the fact that his unprofessional and ill-tempered remarks and actions pushed the charter school along the road to approval."Let's get this straight, Rev. Darby. You mean that Ravenel's somewhat idiotic remarks caused the charter school to be approved? That's called rewriting history.
Much to its discredit, the P & C continues to solicit and publish this nonsense.
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Too bad the Post and Courier doesn't allow comments to their editorials. I'll make my three points here instead.
First, only the Reverend Joseph Darby could so eloquently find self righteousness by lumping the Confederate flag and charter schools into the same editorial commentary. What's his point?
Second, the preacher is so wrapped up in his collar; he scoffs at a county school board member for his "rude and profane coercion". I seem to recall that the good Reverend has also engaged in "unprofessional and ill-tempered remarks and actions" in order to get certain community leaders to back off their support for this charter school.
Third, if the good and learned preacher wants to say "I told you so" then he might have taken up the cause before now. He says Buist is a farce, yet he declined to join the efforts of downtown parents who were prepared to make the case. When Burke parents raised concerns about the academic programs that weren't there or weren't up to snuff, where was this man of the cloth? He was probably hobnobbing with his political cronies. Oh and what if Joseph P. Riley, IV, is now a student at Buist? Well, I told you so. But Joe Darby didn't.
With his regular space reserved in the Post and Courier, we can expect more pontification than we use from this pastor. He cries wolf when there is none and remains silent when there's more than enough cause for alarm. As for this shepherd’s flock...we might do better fending for ourselves.
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