What's "Conservative" About Berkeley County's School Board?

Does our local paper call the Charleston County School Board or any other "liberal"? 

In your dreams.

So why does it persist in calling the school board of the Berkeley County School District "conservative"?

Puzzling, isn't it, since what the board has accomplished over the last year or so should be called "competent." Maybe competent school boards are conservative? Food for thought.

"Conservative Berkeley school board faced, overcame many challenges in 2017" reads the headline.

Now that the indictments against its former chief financial officer "for fraud, embezzlement and money laundering" are public, its "conservative" ways have been vindicated?

“'This board was faced with issue after issue and in each case did the right thing for the school district and the students,' said Terry Hardesty, a former board member who has been critical of past boards. 'Their swift action of terminating an employee under criminal investigation was proper and a stark reminder of the waste the previous board heaped upon the taxpayers. I am sleeping much better at night.'”

“'We took swift and decisive action as a board in a time of crisis and saw each one of those situations corrected,' [board member] Michael Ramsey said. 'That has made this feel like it’s really been worthwhile. I think it’s getting to a point where we can finally start focusing on moving the district forward as a leader, setting the pace and example for the state.'”

If this is what a "conservative" board does, let's have more of them!