Never before has it cost so much to produce so little ... at a time when the state of South Carolina (and the taxpayers who support it) can ill afford to waste a penny.

In the worst economic year since the Great Depression, South Carolina's public schools received a record $8.4 billion in government funding - a 4.5% increase from the previous year.

That boosts per pupil funding in the Palmetto State over $12,000 for the first time in state history, although less than half of that money is actually making it into the classroom.

Infinitesimal gains … infinitesimal losses.

At the end of the day, it’s all the same crap sandwich – and South Carolina parents, students and teachers continue having to take bites from it while the bureaucrats holding them back vacation at the luxurious Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach