I kid you not.
Wednesday's print edition of the P&C contained an editorial congratulating the Charleston County School Board for voting to continue free transportation for charter school students in the district. There's one glaring problem.
The CCSD Board didn't vote on a proposal to continue free transportion to charter schools. In fact, CCSD does not now, nor has it ever, provided free transportation to charter schools.
You can't make this stuff up.
Here the P&C prides itself on covering the news in local and surrounding school districts, yet the editorial writer doesn't know the difference between a magnet and a charter school! This slip, corrected hastily Wednesday morning in the on-line version, reveals an abysmal ignorance on important issues. We have claimed for years that the reporters merely parrot what the district (i.e., superintendent) hands them.
Now we have proof.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
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The paper can just as easily be faulted for repeating the district's published stats leading up to last week's pep rally for Vision 2016. That would be CCSD's latest attempt to cook its books.
Checking the numbers and statistics isn't that complicated. Even an 8th grade math class could see the district's figures don't mesh. But then a typical CCSD 8th grade math class probably wouldn't be up to speed either.
What is surprising is the number of P&C editors who have failed to check the facts. Since most P&C editors and their families are not products of a typical CCSD school they should be better informed to readily recognize these errors.
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