Goodbye Minimally Adequate: Support the Constitutional Amendment for a High Quality Education in South Carolina

EVENT DATE: October 20, 2008

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CLEMSON — Clemson University students will show the documentary “The Corridor of Shame: The Neglect of South Carolina’s Rural Schools” about the challenges that rural South Carolina school districts have faced in the struggle to fund adequate education to all its students. The screening is open to the public and will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in meeting room A in the Hendrix Student Center.

The documentary is being shown as part of Make a Difference Day, a national celebration of helping others.

Following the screening, there will be an explanation of the events in South Carolina’s rural school districts that have taken place since the documentary was made in 2005. There will be an opportunity for community members and students to sign the Goodbye Minimally Adequate petition to replace the words “a minimally adequate education” with “a high quality education, allowing each child to reach his highest potential” in the South Carolina state constitution. 

Students involved in Clemson’s Fall for Leadership conference, which is taking place the same weekend, will participate in the project. Students who are South Carolina residents will be able to write letters to their state representatives addressing this issue. Those that live outside of South Carolina will be able to write letters to the editor of a South Carolina newspaper to raise awareness of the Goodbye Minimally Adequate petition and to encourage people to sign it. The goal for Goodbye Minimally Adequate is 1 million signatures by 2010.

Fall for Leadership is an annual student-sponsored one-day leadership conference. It incorporates presentations and workshops designed to increase awareness about the role of leadership in the life of a college student. One of the main focuses of the annual conference is to emphasize that leadership and service are a single entity rather than separate ones.

"Service is such an important part of leadership. By utilizing this year's theme, ‘Different Values, One Purpose: Leading From Your Core,’ participants are encouraged to live out their values through service and empower others to do the same," said Robyn Wyckoff, a senior majoring in health science from Germantown, Tenn., and conference chairwoman.

Make a Difference Day is sponsored by the office of leadership and civic engagement. Fall for Leadership is sponsored by the Leadership Council.

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