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South Carolina Group Empowers Parents To Stand Up For Their Children – FITSNews
As America emerges from the fog of the Covid-19 era – in which individual liberty and common sense took a back seat to irrational fear and compulsory compliance – parents across the country are slowly but surely waking up and reasserting their rights when it comes to their children.
We’ve been following this budding movement – and its leaders – extensively over the past few years. And while I have always believed the ultimate solution to ineffectual government-run school systems is empowering parents with more choices in the marketplace – it’s also important to fight for parental rights within the government-run system.
Unfortunately, such battles are being lost every day to the adherents of indoctrination.
Meanwhile, school choice – especially in South Carolina – is a shadow of what it should be. And while the program is on the cusp of an expansion in the Palmetto State, “Republican” leaders – who continue to defy their stated conservative principles on multiple fronts – remain slavishly devoted to the failed status quo.
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In such a climate, parents wishing to assert their rights are struggling to find a support system as cultural currents keep moving against them. With so many narratives driven by bureaucratic diktats and mainstream media regurgitation, the gravitational pull away from parental control is unmistakable – and sadly picking up momentum.
Enter United Parents of South Carolina (UPSC), one of several new advocacy groups which aims to equip parents who are willing to take a stand for their children with the information they need to do so. Originally known as “Unmask Our Children,” UPSC was created in 2021 “in response to the ongoing complexities and concerns surrounding the public health policies implemented in schools impacting our children.”
Since then, the nonpartisan group has grown steadily to include more than 6,000 members.
UPSC exists to help parents who are “slowly losing their right to choose what is best for their children” find ways of preserving those rights – both “now and in the future.”
According to the group’s mission statement, it is working with stakeholders to …
- inspire a unified school community
- support the best possible learning environment
- support the best possible educational outcomes
- support the best possible physical, social and emotional health outcomes for our children.
Hard to argue with any of those objectives … but how best to achieve them?
For starters, UPSC encourages leaders at government-run schools to “justify particular policies which may include public health mitigation strategies, curriculum or other school policies.” That includes providing parents – and the public – with “risk versus benefit assessments for specific public health policies.”
You know, like mask mandates, vaccine mandates or demands for “virtual learning” – all of which were issued by government-run schools during Covid.
“Unsupported or unsubstantiated policies erode trust, causing elected officials, government agencies and school system leadership to lose credibility,” the group’s website noted. “Unsupported polices also are more likely to cause division which is detrimental to the school community.”
Translation? Show your work, bureaucrats …
“We have heard from many parents in South Carolina that they have lost trust in public health officials and medical providers,” said Maggie Marlow, one of the original founders of UPSC. “The concern is that certain messaging and recommendations are not backed by scientific evidence and not in the best interest of their children.”
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“In response to these concerns, the UPSC team created a guide to help parents with information and tools they need to ask educated questions and make informed decisions for their family when it comes to their children’s health,” Marlow added.
This guide (.pdf) includes “suggestions on how to have a productive conversation with their child’s medical provider.” Among other goals, it is intended to help educate parents on …
- Why Medical Informed Consent is important.
- Which vaccinations are required for school and which are not.
- Vaccination exemptions.
- Commonly asked questions about vaccinations.
According to Victoria Finneran, a member of the group, parental vigilance is every bit as important today as it was during the peak overreach of the Covid-19 scare.
“Some of the 2020 mandates may almost seem like a distant memory but there are still major issues at hand,” she wrote on UPSC’s Facebook page.
According to Finneran, UPSC’s guide helps ensure parents “are fully empowered to make the right decisions” for their families.
One of those parents is Kimberly Norton, a mother of two elementary age children.
“This document is SO valuable, because in a world where everyone is trying to push their own agendas and opinions, it’s really helpful to have a one stop shop to educate parents with unbiased facts when it comes to vaccinations,” Norton told me.
UPSC isn’t the only group seeking to level the playing field in the fight against “agendas and opinions.” As we reported last month, a new school board collaborative formed in North and South Carolina is helping members “facilitate better academic outcomes in their district’s classrooms” – and equipping them to push back against “outside agendas that have co-opted so many educational institutions.”
This news outlet supports all of these efforts … just as we continue to support the push for expanded parental choice in the Palmetto State and beyond. Hopefully, South Carolina lawmakers will begin paying attention to this shifting tide and start putting the needs of students first for a change.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and seven children.
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How to watch South Carolina vs Iowa State women’s basketball: Time, channel, live streams
The 4th-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team next ships off to the Sunshine State for a matchup with No. 15 Iowa State at the Fort Myers Tip-off. The game is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. ET with TV coverage on FOX and streaming on-demand.
- How to watch: Live streams of the South Carolina vs. Iowa State game are available with offers from FuboTV (free trial), SlingTV (low intro rate) and DirecTV Stream (free trial).
- For a limited time, FuboTV is offering $30 off the first month after the free trial period. With the $30 offer, plans start at $49.99.
#4 South Carolina Gamecocks (5-1) vs. #15 Iowa State Cyclones (5-1)
NCAA women’s basketball matchup at a glance
When: Thursday, Nov. 28 at 1:30 p.m. ET
Where: Suncoast Credit Union Arena, Fort Myers, Fla.
TV channel: FOX
Live streams: FuboTV (free trial) | SlingTV (low intro rate) | DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Both South Carolina and Iowa State lost their first games of the 2024-’25 season within the past eight days, with the Gamecocks falling on the road to No. 5 UCLA (77-62) on Sunday and the Cyclones to Northern Iowa (87-75) last Wednesday in Cedar Falls. South Carolina is now 5-1 in its defense of the 2024 NCAA women’s championship with a top-10 win over NC State highlighting the team’s early-season résumé. The Gamecocks will be Iowa State’s first ranked opponent after falling to No. 2 seed Stanford in overtime (87-81) in the second round of last season’s NCAA Tournament
South Carolina Gamecocks vs. Iowa State Cyclones: Know your live streaming options
- FuboTV (free trial) – excellent viewer experience with huge library of live sports content; free trial lengths vary; monthly rate after free trial starts at $59.99 after current $20 discount offer.
- SlingTV (low intro rate) – discounted first month is best if you’ve run out of free trials or you’re in the market for 1+ month of TV
- DirecTV Stream (free trial) – not the same level of viewer experience as FuboTV, but the standard 7-day free trial is still the longest in streaming.
South Carolina and Iowa State are set for a 1:30 p.m. ET start on FOX. Live streams are available from FuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and SlingTV (low intro rate).
The 2024 South Carolina high school football season is in high gear and SBLive Sports is the place to follow of the live scoring updates and finals.
Follow the action get the most to date scores by tracking the SBLive South Carolina High School Football Scoreboard. We will have in-game score updates and all of the final scores from every corner of the state. You can also search for full schedules and complete scores from all of your very favorite teams.
Here’s a guide to following all of the South Carolina high school football this week.
STATEWIDE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD
CLASS 5A SCORES | CLASS 4A SCORES
CLASS 3A SCORES | CLASS 2A SCORES
CLASS 1A SCORES
SCISA CLASS AAAA | SCISA CLASS AAA
SCISA CLASS AA | SCISA A
2024 SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTBALL SCHEDULES: FIND YOUR TEAM
Can’t make it to your favorite team’s game but still want to watch them live? You can watch dozens of South Carolina high school football games live on the NFHS Network:
WATCH LIVE ON NFHS NETWORK
We also invite you to visit the brand new South Carolina homepage on High School on SI, powered by SBLive Sports, for the latest news, highlights, analysis, scores, photos and information on South Carolina high school sports. Follow our live game coverage and read our feature stories, breaking news, the latest recruiting news, rankings and much more.
Follow SBLive South Carolina throughout the 2024 high school football season for Live Updates, the most up to date Schedules & Scores and complete coverage from the preseason through the state championships!
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ESPN's College Football Playoff Predictor has updated again. Here's where South Carolina stands
ESPN.com’s College Football Playoff predictor isn’t perfect because it applies analytics to a situation that ultimately will be decided by a committee of humans. But it does provide a nice guide and discussion piece about which teams have the best chance to make this year’s College Football Playoff.
Because of that human element, the predictor has been updating twice each week, once on Sunday to account for Saturday’s games and again after the latest CFP rankings are released.
[More for subscribers: What latest rankings mean for South Carolina’s College Football Playoff chances]
While the Gamecocks won their game on Saturday and got a lot of help from the teams around them last week, the logjam of SEC teams ahead of them in Tuesday’s rankings is still limiting their upside at this time.
With the committee putting South Carolina behind fellow three-loss SEC teams Alabama and Ole Miss, the predictor currently gives South Carolina a 20 percent chance of making the 12-team field, which is three percentage points lower than its chances in Sunday’s update.
The Gamecocks do, of course, have one more huge opportunity to pad their resume when they travel to Clemson this weekend to renew the annual rivalry in what may be the biggest game in the matchup’s history.
Beat the Tigers, who are currently No. 12 in the CFP Top 25, and South Carolina’s chances of making the playoff jump to 46 percent, according to the predictor.
While that’s just under a coin flip, it’s also 12 percentage points lower than it was in Sunday’s update.
South Carolina is still very much in the hunt but is going to need to win and play very well against Clemson and get more help around it.
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As a reminder, the CFP committee’s top 12 teams won’t correlate exactly with the 12-team field.
The CFP will consist of the top five highest-ranked conference champions and the next seven highest-ranked at-large schools. The top four conference champions will receive the top four seeds and a first-round bye. The fifth conference champion will be seeded by its CFP ranking. If that ranking is outside of the top 12 it will be seeded 12th as the final team in the field.
The teams seeded 5 through 12 will fight it out in the first round with the winners advancing to the quarterfinal round to face the top four seeds.
The Gamecocks and Tigers are set for a noon showdown Saturday in Clemson.
ESPN Analytics uses FPI to simulate the entire college football season 200,000 times. A committee model is applied to mimic College Football Playoff selections and seeding in order to generate a 12-team bracket for each simulation. The most likely CFP teams are provided for user selections. After user inputs, a likely bracket is generated and randomly simulated using FPI.
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