LETTER: Our children deserve better

Our children deserve better than legislators giving them

To the editor:

I just wanted to thank you for your article in today’s Morning News in Florence [Brack: Stop shortchanging South Carolina]. You have certainly pointed out effectively the problems in South Carolina politics.

I’ve been an educator for more than 40 years and have just retired. Throughout my tenure, I have watched South Carolina politics ruin children’s lives. No matter how hard teachers try, without more money in the poorer schools, teachers and students are severely handicapped. It is so sad that we have lost so many years of equitable funding because the judge ruled that “minimally adequate” was good enough. We have a lower class of South Carolinians who will forever be a burden on our system because they have not been properly educated.

My heart has been broken many times watching our children strive to do better and get better when, deep down, I know there is no job for their broken skills.

I just want to thank you so much for pointing out the shortfalls of our legislature. I pray daily that the blinders will fall off the eyes of South Carolinians and they will become aware of our educational problems. If we don’t educate these children, we will forever be taking care of them in the welfare rolls, or even worse, prisons.

Our children in South Carolina deserve so much more.

– Dianne Hill Anderson, Timmonsville, S.C.

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