School Choice: A Tale of Two Sons, Two Schools
Karen Floyd explains how school choice has affected her family.
I am the product of public education: from Irmo Elementary School to a Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Likewise our identical twin sons have received excellent educations in public schools from Pine Street Elementary School to the Freshman Academy at Spartanburg High School. I can point to seminal teachers and coaches that have impacted their lives in positive ways, and we are forever grateful to each one. In the ninth grade, however, we made a change – a choice. While one son was flourishing, the other son was not reaching his potential. No fault lies with any person, process or institution. Though it has always been apparent that our twin sons, despite being identical, learned differently, responded …
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John H
10:20 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
To Rusty; Pardon my ignorance of the ongoing dialogue regarding school choice and education improvement in South Carolina. Also please excuse the “Do tell” phrasing of the query. I realize that in this format it usually precedes a challenge which was not my intent. Sometimes the amplitude of the emotions in a dialogue indicates the degree of passion possessed by the participants. People in South … more ›