Beneath the Surface: More Public School Dismantling in SC
by plthomasedd
My home state of South Carolina is a poster child of disfunction, a self-loathing mutt of myopic bible-thumping, state-rights’ libertarianism mated with historical and systemic poverty born out of racism and the lingering burden of slavery.
SC voted for Newt Gingrich in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries and now stands as the home of former-governor turned Appalachian-trail-hiking pro-family Mark Sanford running again for office.
Yet one of the greatest weights on the state is a long-standing assault on the state’s struggling public schools. SC is also a powerful and disturbing picture of the greater education debate in the U.S. since the state reflects a harsh reality of the dynamics associated with pockets of poverty and community-based schools. As a documentary and law suit have identified, SC schools suffer from a corridor of shame.
Because of the state’s nearly blanket commitment to the Republican party (many offices have only one candidate, a Republican, and a number of SC politicians have saved their political careers by simply switching to the Republican party, even
