Two Reasons Why Southern Education Sucks

Here are two education tidbits from Georgia and our sister state, South Carolina.

Exhibit A, corruption:

[Former Georgia state superintendent Linda] Schrenko and the Atlanta computer executive, A. Stephan Botes, are charged with stealing $614,000 in federal education funds that should have gone to purchase computer services for two state schools for the deaf and the Governor's Honors Program. Instead, prosecutors allege, about half the money went to Schrenko's failed Republican primary campaign for governor in 2002. And $9,300 was allegedly spent on cosmetic surgery for Schrenko.

Exhibit B, nutjobs that influence the cirriculum:

Ron Wilson, a former commander in chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, ran unsuccessfully for state Senate this year but was elected to the 16-member education panel by a 4-3 vote of state legislators from Anderson County's delegation to replace John Hostetler, a former high school principal who is retiring.

Wilson once sold textbooks to parents who home-school their children, including the viciously anti-Semitic Barbarians Inside the Gates, which touts a discredited theory that Jews are working toward world domination.