Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Can Wando Campus Handle 4700 Students?


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How crowded does a school campus need to be before someone in charge says, "Hold, enough"?  

CCSD's Board Chair Kate Darby thinks it doesn't matter how many students squeeze into Wando by 2020 because " a lot of 11th and 12th graders will want to finish out where they've been," rather than entering the new Beckham High School. What's really going on is worry over where the District 2 Constituent Board will draw the attendance-zone boundaries for the two schools. Can't be unbalanced, ya know.

Meanwhile, the Charleston County School District toys with competing with virtual charter schools already in existence. " Unlike the full-time virtual charter schools run by private management companies in South Carolina, this school would be run locally by the school district and would not be a substitute for traditional school." And would cost CCSD to run. How much? "According to a planning document distributed to the school board, district staff plan to determine the budget, technology and personnel required for such a program between October and December."

And the reason that what virtual charter schools offer must be duplicated? 

We can guess.

Filling the Taj Mahal with educrats is expensive, not merely because of their salaries. They must justify their jobs by promoting more spending.

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