Beaufort County School District educates approximately 20,000 students in Beaufort County, South Carolina, the second-most rapidly growing county in South Carolina. The district manages 30 schools and has sponsored the charter for Riverview Charter School. The superintendent is Valerie Truesdale. The district is governed by an 11-member board of education whose elected members represent the electoral district in which they live and serve staggered, four-year terms.
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“Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she’s tired of liftin’ that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin’ him on the sofa so he won’t catch cold. Tonight we’re for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We’re goin’ to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)
“He had first discovered a propensity for savagery in the acrid lavatories of a minor English public school where he used to press the heads of the new boys into the ceramic bowl and pull the flush upon them to drown their gurgling protests.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
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—Rebecca West (1892–1983)