This post is written by Parrish Rabon, founder of our new affiliate, Sumter Education Task Force (SETF) in Sumter, SC. She can be reached at parrishgrabon@gmail.com. Corporate education reform and its responsible parties (Broad and Gates) were introduced to Sumter, South Carolina, in a fast and furious manner last year. Sumter County’s two former school districts consolidated to form the Sumter School District and our new school board hired Mr. Randolph Bynum, a 2007 Broad Superintendent’s Academy graduate.
He began his tenure as Sumter School District’s superintendent on July 1, 2011. Teacher morale plummeted almost immediately as Mr. Bynum and his two appointees from Atlanta Public School System introduced the “SWEET 16: Systematic Way to Ensure Effective Teachers.” The document was brought to our teachers riddled with grammatical errors.
Teachers in our district were told that via this document, an “instructional audit,” the new
