Betty Bagley still sees the world thru school girl eyes

If you ask longtime educator, three-time superintendent and Pickens County Board of Education trustee Betty Bagley how her career in public schools began, she’ll tell you, “By accident and good fortune.”  The “accident” has something to do with growing up as an ambitious young woman in the 1950s and saying “yes” to every opportunity that came her way.  The “good fortune?”  That, says Clemson University, came from the people she surrounded herself with as a high achiever who cares deeply about children.  Bagley spent 10 years working toward her Ph.D. from Clemson’s College of Education.  Many decades ago Bagley was a pupil herself at Norris Elementary School, attending class in a two-story brock building, a few miles from the Clemson campus.  When she started grade school, Clemson was an all-male military academy.