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McCORMICK — This story could have ended many ways. Four years ago, the remote John de la Howe campus in rural McCormick County, at the time serving as a state boarding school for kids kicked out of their local districts, lost its academic accreditation from the South Carolina Department of Education. A series of investigations since 2010 had turned up financial irregularities, including a document-shredding episode in the summer of 2010. The schools enrollment was dropping, loyal ...