Editor’s Note: Several people wrote letters on a recent column that said the courts should hold the legislature accountable on education. A reminder: If you want your letter published, you need to provide contact information — name, city and telephone number — for verification purposes.
Where are the state’s values?
To the editor:
What does this say about our state when it values prison over education?
What does that say about our state when it sets our children up to fail instead of being successful?
Where are the state’s values? Where are the state priorities? Is not human capital a great investment?
I do not understand how the state would not want the same for all children as the “powers to be” want for their own. I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. Remember what you do to the least, you do to the greatest.
— Bessie Wright, Orangeburg, S.C.
Courts must keep oversight
To the editor:
If they [S.C. Supreme Court] don’t [keep oversight of education equity reform], none of their rulings will mean anything! Obviously, they [state lawmakers] have been dragging their feet for all these years since they don’t want to comply.
Until the court starts putting some teeth into their ruling, like personal fines for the leadership…NOT something that taxpayers’ money has to pay for, but that or prison time!
— Helen C. Foley, Columbia, S.C.
Not all dads are deadbeats
To the editor:
Perhaps it could be delinquent parental obligation payment system? [Scorecard, 9/10, on DSS computer system]
Not [all] Dads are deadbeats, not all deadbeats are Dads.
— Dale Leffler, Tamasse, S.C.
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