The Lines Moved Around Her. She Didn't Move.
Mom. Small business owner. Homeschool founder. Berkeley County public school parent. LaKyshia Godfrey has lived every side of the education question — in the same house.
Both Sides of the Education Question
LaKyshia Godfrey is not a career politician. She's a mom, a small business owner — a mobile notary and tax professional — a homesteader, and a homeschool founder in Berkeley County. She has homeschooled her own children, and she has also sent her kids — and her siblings — through Berkeley County public schools.
And she has lived the county's shifting school lines personally: without ever changing her address, she has been a Whitesville Elementary parent, a Foxbank Elementary guardian, and now a Cane Bay Middle parent. The lines moved around her — she didn't move.
Why She's Running
Her children attend Cane Bay Middle, so she sees the growth crisis firsthand: portables from day one at Cane Bay Elementary, a middle school built to hold grades 5–8 because elementary capacity never came, enrollment caps, stressed teachers in classrooms that are simply too full — and flooding at Cane Bay neighborhoods and Whitesville Elementary, because infrastructure hasn't kept pace either.
Growth at schools like Cane Bay doesn't stay contained. It spills into neighboring schools and drives up property taxes for families across the county. LaKyshia is running so District 6 has a board member who plans capacity before the rooftops go up — and who tells families the truth about the lines before they buy a home.
This campaign is grassroots, built on neighbors and conversations — not a political machine. School board isn't red or blue. It's down-ballot, nonpartisan, and closest to home.