Berkeley County keeps approving new housing growth faster than it plans for the classroom seats, bus routes, and teachers that growth requires — and the cost lands on every taxpayer, not just the neighborhood being built. District 6 deserves a board member who plans capacity before the rooftops go up, not after.
She has seen it happen in real time
Cane Bay Elementary opened in 2009, and overcrowding was so immediate that 5th graders were taught in portables from the start. When Cane Bay Middle opened in 2012, it was built to hold grades 5 through 8 — pulling 5th graders out of elementary early, a structure most of the country doesn’t use.
That overflow doesn’t just disappear. It lands on neighboring schools, stretching their classrooms, their bus routes, and their budgets too. The district has since had to approve enrollment caps at Cane Bay schools — proof the strain is real and documented.