They must be joking...

So I wake up this morning to a Post and Courier story informing me the Charleston County School Board is "experimenting" this year with Memminger Elementary and North Charleston Elementary. CCSD is giving both schools an extra $237,000 for a Spanish teacher, Asst. Principal, a science teacher, full-time nurse and guidance counselor (shouldn't every school have that?), art and what else? Oh, yeah, a parent educator. So much for that point system we all keep complaining about, huh? There are so many problems with this "plan", I don't know where to begin. Can you help me??
Evidently we need to thank Toya Green and Arthur Ravenel. Your school can have these things if these two board members say so. Mr. Ravenel is hoping the white people will come now. What does that mean? I'm all in favor of integration, don't get me wrong. But does he think we need white people in our schools for them to improve? OUCH! Mrs. Green "picked" the school because Memminger's Principal is the former Asst. Principal at Buist. What does that have to do with anything? Is Mrs. Green feeling a little guilty that her child will be attending Buist, receiving the education that so few of us living on the peninsula are apparently entitled to? Oh, that's right. Mrs. Green's child is SMARTER than our children. THAT'S why she gets to go to Buist and not us. Silly me, I keep forgetting that part of this ridiculous joke of a school system. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that she's on the school board. She was lucky in the lottery, just like so many other attorneys, AND she has a smarter child, just like so many fundraisers, Yacht club members, doctors, and rock stars.
Now don't forget, we have ONE year to show CCSD a Spanish teacher, a science teacher, and a nurse (etc...) will help improve student achievement (a/k/a PACT scores). Otherwise, I guess they might take our guidance counselor and all the other goodies away. Do they have Spanish on the PACT test?
C'mon people, forget those deposits you've made on your private schools and forget that transfer you fought so hard to receive, get your child to Memminger! I heard they have open enrollment, so it shouldn't matter where you live, you can go there. I wonder if Arthur and Toya asked any Memminger parents what they thought of this idea. Better yet, did they ask any Memminger teachers? I heard the Dist. 20 Superintendent didn't even know anything about this. I wonder what the Principals at our other city schools are thinking...