By Sam Spence | South Carolina voters next year will elect a new state superintendent of schools for the first time since 2015 as education issues stoke divisive and controversial political debates that show no sign of simmering. With the open state superintendent seat, along with the governor’s race and congressional races on ballots, how will education affect South Carolina’s 2022 election season?
Schoolkids and their classes have long been the battlefield for adults’ culture wars, from the 1925 Scopes trial over teaching evolution to more recent fights over books like the memoir, Fun Home. But State Superintendent Molly Spearman’s tenure is winding down as students, teachers and families trudge out of the pandemic that created classroom chaos that wore on even the toughest educators.
Those experiences will leave a mark, said Steve Nuzum, a Columbia teacher and research director for the advocacy group SC for Ed.
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