Lowcountry school boards weigh in on governorâs mask order
VIDEO: McMaster mask order splits Lowcountry school districts on enforcement By Nick Reagan | May 12, 2021 at 9:48 PM EDT - Updated May 12 at 10:06 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - School districts around the Lowcountry are reacting to Governor Henry McMasterâs order that the requires districts to allow parents to opt-out of the schoolâs mask requirements.
Justin Farnsworth is a school board member in Dorchester School District 2. He says there were rumblings that an order was coming, but they were given no warning before the announcement was made.
âThe order that came out was, I donât want to say, a shocker but just something we were not fully ready for or expecting yesterday,â Farnsworth said.
Who oesn’t love a weird, 60-plus-year-old coincidence? As if there aren’t enough headlines about Elon Musk at the moment, a connection between his name and a decades-old book that seemed to eerily predict the billionaire’s involvement in Mars exploration resurfaced this week.
In the 1950s, German-turned-American scientist Wernher von Braun (yes, the Nazis’ leading rocket man), wrote a science fiction novel called The Mars Project. It takes place in then-distant 1980 and features human colonists on Mars whose leader uses the title “Elon.” As in, oh, we don’t know … billionaire Tesla and SpaceX big shot, upcoming SNL host, and guy who wants us to get us to Mars? The coincidence is hardly unknown. My CNET colleague Eric Mack wrote about it in 2018. It gained more notoriety when space reporter Toby Li tweeted about it in December 2020, writing, “Speaking about destiny, did you know that Von Braun’s 1953 book “Mars Project,” referenced a person named Elon that wo
Charleston School board voting on $500 bonuses These bonus checks would go to all Charleston County School District employees and Mack says the money could be in employees’ accounts as soon May. (Source: AP) By Live 5 Web Staff and Danielle Seat | May 3, 2021 at 4:55 AM EDT - Updated May 3 at 7:24 AM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County School District says all teachers and employees may soon receive a $500 bonus.
Charleston County School District Chairman Eric Mack is calling a special school board meeting 3:30 p.m. Monday to propose and vote on the bonuses.
“The pandemic has really been a struggle for some folks,” Mack said.
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