Diversity Consultant Recommends CCSD Board's Political Suicide

Why do administratively top-heavy school districts hire consultants? Don't they have enough administrators handy to do the job?

Easy answer: Consultants can state what the district wants to hear but fears to say. Then they can slink away.

Such is the case with the diversity consultant hired by the Charleston County School District. The result is so far-reaching that only a major commitment by the Charleston County legislative delegation will resolve it. The delegation would need to propose legislation that would destroy the agreement made decades ago when independent county school districts were consolidated, before the City of North Charleston existed, before Mt. Pleasant became a monster-sized suburb.

Changing attendance zones is the third rail of school district policies. Combine that outrage with dissolving all constituent school boards in the district so that attendance zones can be drawn to minimize differences in poverty levels.

Let's imagine the explosion when the attendance zone for Mt. Pleasant's Old Village slops over the Cooper River into the peninsula's downtown neighborhoods.

Prediction? Not going to happen.

Diversity consultant = wasted taxpayer dollars.