Somehow the editorial staff of The Sun News has determined that the more than 375 (I got tired of counting) churches of Horry County are incompetent. Despite each area church offering Sunday School teachers steeped in the Bible, and many having staff with advanced degrees in religious studies, and despite the churches’ educational expenditures reaching millions of dollars annually, the deprived students of Horry County, The Sun News informs us, are receiving insufficient Bible training. One catches one’s breath at the utter absurdity of using desperately needed money to widen the spread superstition.
Meanwhile, Horry County ACT scores are plummeting. Perhaps science, math, English, history, or even the arts, would prove a more productive use of the county’s money. Or, I could be wrong. If what is needed is more prayer then the trends should soon be reversed.
Once the religious genie is out of the funding box, how does Horry County propose to keep Muslim or Jewish or Baha’i parents from demanding equal allocations? We can’t help our ignorance. We can help inflicting it on our children by not squandering limited funds on subject matter within easy reach of every South Carolina child.
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