Is it a coincidence that all the politicians who are causing SC national — indeed, international — mortification are Republicans?
In South Carolina, 58 percent of students participate in the free and reduced-price lunch program.Bauer’s remarks came during a speech in which he said government should take away assistance if those receiving help didn’t pass drug tests or attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings if their children were receiving free and reduced-price lunches.Bauer later Friday told The Greenville News he wasn’t saying people on government assistance “were animals or anything else.”In his speech, Bauer said people have to become more engaged with government.”You see, for the first time in the history of this country, we’ve got more people voting for a living than we do working for a living.”Later in his speech, Bauer said, “I can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina,” adding, “You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I’ll show you the worst test scores, folks. It’s there, period.”So how do you
