Kelly Mill Middle School in South Carolina grades students far higher than they should be as well as financially requesting outrageous funding from parents. They are a private funded school (charging in the range of $8000 a year) and they request that parents buy markers, pens, pencils, tape, paper, notebooks, etc. They also requested that a student D.C. bus trip be paid for a year in advance at $1500 a student (as well as requesting that students' lunch money be provided). Students are lacking in their education due to the falsified grading system. If a student doesn't complete an assignment, their grade that is given is a 74. They also grade students as a percentage of a complete assignment and, for example, 10% of the grade can be based on a title for a project and turning that in. There are students attending that school that do not know how to classify a week (Sunday-Saturday) and do not know how many inches are in one foot. These are 11-13 yr old kids that are being asked to draw pictures with crayons and to complete science projects without any proof of the experiment. The school itself is a business and the state of South Carolina doesn't mind.