It’s funny (sometimes) to watch the machinations of the anti-public school people in this state. Most frequently, it seems they’re pissed that public schools are actually educating people who come from parents that don’t have a combined income over $100,000, or a predominantly-minority school that hasn’t already had an associated pastor bought off. Such is life.
The recent swine flu issue is pretty interesting. Back in April, the private Newberry Academy had to be shut down after 13 students and their chaperones went to Cancun and brought back the swine flu. If this had happened at a public school, any public school in South Carolina, Will Folks and his buddies at South Carolinians for Responsible Government would have peed their pants in anticipation of exploiting the situation. Instead, it happened at a place of which their boy Chad Connelly chairs the board.
Now, it turns out that, according to SCRN, 40 percent of the Cardinal Newman football team has been (no pun intended) sidelined with the pig sickness. Yet another private school. Those SCISA football playoffs should be hot.
