Students whose parents can't or won't purchase those school supply lists proliferating this month must depend on the kindness of strangers. Church after Church and nonprofits galore hand out everything from bookbags to pencils. Teachers from the Charleston County School District regularly sign onto DonorsChoose.org to beg for classroom needs.
Yet CCSD plows ahead with multi-million-dollar football stadiums, or stadia, if you prefer.
Blame lies at the feet of South Carolina's stupid, wrongheaded school funding "system," if we can call it that.
Money from outside sources covered "a variety of classroom projects [last year]. At West Ashley High School, for example, a special-education teacher is now able to fill her supply closet with markers, glue, pencils and folders. A Burke High School teacher can finally purchase a Nikon camera that his students can use for video and photography projects. Nineteen 6- and 7-year-olds at Harbor View Elementary will get new guided reading books."
These are hardly frills, not when compared with the luxury that the new stadia will provide.
Wonder why the average taxpayer thinks our schools spend too much money? It's time for our state legislators to step up to the plate and fix this problem.
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