Charleston County to Change School Choice Rules

What is diversity? Desegregation by another name. 

George Orwell, please speak up.

The Charleston County School District is run by people so out of touch with reality that they needed to spend the equivalent of two or three yearly teacher's salaries to find out that the district still needs to be desegregated after more than forty years of trying, or pretending to try, depending on your point of view. 

It's like paying your two-year-old to tell you he needs a nap. 

It was $135,000 paid to consultants simply for cover, so that Kate Darby's school board could claim that someone else came up with the notion that "sibling admission policies, bus transportation, and racial demographics" need rethinking in the district. After all, board members must run for re-election.

Too bad that common sense went out the window with the no-shorts-in-school rule. If it were still around, we could formulate improvements without feeding the edublob. 

Think of it: why should siblings gain preferred admission to magnet schools? To please parents who are already blessed by winning the lottery? 

Why should the district provide bus transportation for some choices of schools and not others? Because of lingering resentment over the growth of charter schools? Because the poor can't be left in the bus's rear window?

How have policies that promoted desegregation left schools in majority white attendance districts with nearly all-black elementary schools? There's the stickler. Don't tell me some "experts" from Clemson have now solved that problem.

And let us in on the secret results of offering the top two graduates at each middle school admission to the Academic Magnet since 2016. How's that working out for ya? 

As usual the district makes changes in hopes of improvement, then never tells the public whether the changes worked. Hey, that's a good place to start changing. More transparency with results.