A Miracle Factory
The Barclay School in North Columbia S.C. doesn’t look like a budding entrepreneurial center. You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
The Barclay School in North Columbia S.C. doesn’t look like a budding entrepreneurial center. You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Pull up their form 990. The two teachers make virtually no money and the whole operation runs on little more than a prayer. These people are saints.
why are her pants unzipped? perhaps you have a different photo.
why are her pants unzipped?
[insert joke here]
Wonderful!
That’s the kind of news I enjoy reading! Thank you.
They do wonderful work. But she is lucky to be able to work for “less than minimum wage.” Most of the people making minimum wage struggle to get by because they didn’t have a previous career that paid enough to both live on and have a decent retirement, and they don’t have a spouse like hers with a job that pays a real salary.
Roseanne, I can assure from personal knowledge that there are no rich husbands and no previous lucrative careers here. The sacrafice these women are making is real, not a “luxory.”
I don’t know why you think this assumption is justified, but you are absolutely wrong.
Well, she does has a husband who is paid real money to teach at USC and she did teach for a number of years for a real salary.
Certainly would be one of the more useful tax laws written if it provides support for a school like this.
This would be a disaster. The school is successful precisely because politics hasn’t gotten its destructive paws on it.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
The tax bill has passed and funds will become available in January for schools that qualify. Imagine that, close to 100% of tax incentivized donations going to educate LD kids who if handled by public education would be lost.
If it is so great why does it need additional tax incentives to get donations? Donations are already deductible. Should we allow tax credits for all charitable contributions?
As sweet as this story is,these kids are victims of American capitalism,not what’s left.Perverse analogy.
Eyes are no longer dry. Way to go, Sic.
This is certainly a nice “feel good” story. Every school in South Carolina, public and private, can tell warm, fuzzy stories. What hard data shows this is a successful school? Public schools are held accountable to cold, hard data. Voucher folks want public support for private schools, but want the accountability limited to anecdotes. What a deal!
Back in the 90s, in good economic times, the Small Business Administration told potential small business owners that 90%+ of small businesses fail in the first year.
Has that improved now that we call small business owners ‘entrepreneurs’ ?
I do see they don’t accept kids with ‘severe emotional and behavioral problems’. I guess we just need to dump that kind in the ditch once the kill-public-education types put an end to the schools that do take them.
So the solution is to get all teachers to work for free or nearly free. Great idea. Then next solution is to get all state and local workers to also work for free.
We can institute conscription and involuntary servitude so that those people deemed to be worthy of being slaves can toil for the greater good of the (tea)party. (illegal immigrants or welfare recipients maybe?) Of course, we arent actually bad people so we will pay them $3/hr. After all, our great grandparents made do on less than that, so how dare they be ungrateful.
Also, we will pay them that $3/hr “wage” so that we can deny with plausibility that they are enslaved.
Of course, we will still demand that the newly minted bureaucratic slaves must live personal lives subject to our political review and carry out their servitude …err..”service” with a happy and cheerful demeanor , because after all, they work for us. No bathroom breaks or lunch breaks. And heaven help if they are seen eating out a restaurant.
To be able to do that can only mean that they are stealing from the people.
Or raise the minimum wage to a middle class income level and lets have a worker’s paradise
It’s amazing that you have found some way to not only crap on a wonderful story, but interject the politics of a struggling public education system.
If you represent the average teacher in the public school system, God help our kids.
Why not just say, “nice story” and be on your way? Are a couple of people that are helping kids for not a lot of money that much a threat to the education establishment?
Are you so biased that you fail to see that is exactly what folks is trying to dow ith the supposed “feel good” story in the first place? It is 100% supposed to be an indictment of “government run” education. period.
spare us the histrionic boo hoo. His goal is to slant a story and leave out enough facts to make it a wonderful example of how great education will be. if we just fund private schools with tax dollars.
Period
People are mean on the INTERNET? Stop the presses.
Just an observation, but the private and public systems have one major difference… if a child is “problem”, the private school can simply kick him out. The public system can’t do that, and often is forced to deal with children who have no interest in learning (and have parent(s) who see no value in education). One has supportive parents, the other may have many students whose parents are AWOL from the learning and discipline process. Those students actually COST more to educate than “good” students.
That said, I applaud what is being done here.
On a related note for those living in Greenville County, I just went to an event for a non-profit organization that helps children with developmental delays in Greenville. They help kids who are starting out at such a disadvantage, whether it be from abuse, neglect or poverty, and helping put them on equal footing with their peers.
A Child’s Haven is working to complete its capital campaign to complete its new facility, which will nearly double the number of children they can accept to the program. They are at 91% of their goal (the website is a little behind the pledges), and are going to break ground next month. A wonderful organization if anyone is moved to give. http://www.achildshaven.org/
I’d like to make one thing clear. We are not talking about vouchers here.