Apr 14Holy Week and the BorderThis is the week where Christians throughout the world celebrate Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday and culminating in the Resurrection. …2 min read
Apr 8SC Teachers Should Consider Voting in the Republican PrimaryThere is a lot at stake right now in the South Carolina education system. Right now, the legislature is pushing through a disastrous voucher bill as well as an anti-critical race theory bill, which would just cause more censorship and less academic freedom. The reality is there is a portion…3 min read
Feb 12Reimagine Schools and the Infantilization of TeachersThere are countless issues with the Coastal Community Foundation’s Reimagine Schools proposal, which would potentially privatize a fourth of the schools in Charleston County. However, one issue that needs to be highlighted is how Reimagine Schools and similar proposals around the country disrespect teachers and assume they are the problem. …2 min read
Feb 9An Alternative, School Centered Proposal to Reimagine SchoolsIn December, the Coastal Community Foundation released a $32 million dollar proposal, Reimagine Schools, using the ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) III funds that came out of the 2020 CARES Act. This would go to support 23 schools in the district with students from primarily low-income and minority…4 min read
Feb 4What’s At Stake in DD2 in 2022DD2 has some strengths over other local districts like CCSD, but it also has some of its own weaknesses. A great deal is changing right now in the district with the long-term superintendent, Joseph Pye, stepping down. One thing positive that he has been able to maintain for the most…2 min read
Jan 28A Book to Read During the Ukraine CrisisI have enjoyed Ken Follet’s writing in his series the Fall of the Giants about 5 families journies from the start of World War I through the Cold War. …3 min read
Jan 17Privatize Rather than Address the Elephant in the Room-School ChoiceIt seems CCSD would rather privatize than actually deal with the fallout that school choice has brought to the district over the last few decades. It has left Charleston one of the most unequal and segregated school systems in the state. Though the initial proposal to privatize schools by the…4 min read
Jan 6My Reflections One Year After Being in WashingtonI went up to Washington last January 6th, not as a participant, but as a journalist to interview people about what was going on. I came away with many different impressions, but one of the impressions I certainly had was that I was almost glad that it had occurred after…3 min read
Dec 26, 2021I‘ve Seen Mary and Joseph at our BorderSometimes in the wealthy, industrialized West, we’ve sanitized the story of Christmas and the Nativity so that it fits in quite naturally with the consumerism, bright lights, and Santa Claus. Joy to the World is played in between Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. None of this is necessarily…3 min read
Nov 26, 2021There are Not Always Two Sides to Every IssueLast month, the comments of a school administrator in Texas made national news in response to a new state law that prohibits critical race theory and requires that both sides are taught on controversial current event issues (a similar law is currently being considered by the South Carolina legislature). …3 min read
