{"id":13206,"date":"2009-06-06T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/5_south_carolina_schools_close_permanently_making_friday_an_emotional_day_f\/"},"modified":"2009-06-06T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T18:30:04","slug":"5_south_carolina_schools_close_permanently_making_friday_an_emotional_day_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13206","title":{"rendered":"5 South Carolina schools close permanently, making Friday an emotional day for many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five schools \u201d\u201d Brentwood Middle, Charlestowne Academy, Fraser Elementary, McClellanville Middle and Schroder Middle \u201d\u201d closed their doors for good Friday, and five school communities grieved the loss.<\/p>\n<p>It was a difficult and emotional day for students and staff alike. Some were optimistic about the future while others were anxious and fearful. And while some students looked forward to their summer break, many others felt the pain of more permanent goodbyes.<\/p>\n<p>The school board made the decision in January to shutter the schools to save money and to give kids better opportunities elsewhere. At the time the district faced a projected $28 million deficit, and these five schools were among the lowest achieving in the district.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/06\/the_last_goodbyes85120\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five schools \u201d\u201d Brentwood Middle, Charlestowne Academy, Fraser Elementary, McClellanville Middle and Schroder Middle \u201d\u201d closed their doors for good Friday, and five school communities grieved the loss. It was a difficult and emotional day for students and staff alike.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13206\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}