OPINION: Many rural schools have been ‘minimally adequate’ for too long
“Children in South Carolina deserve much better, especially those in less-privileged communities. But this is the way it’s always been for many rural children of color. Even for me, a rural white child from a middle-class family, my school’s expectations were low. My alma mater, Wren High School, now one of South Carolina’s highest-rated schools, serving mostly suburban students outside Greenville, it was a more rural place in the 1980s.”