Comments for Beaufort County School Board meeting May 2, 2023

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Comments for Beaufort County School Board meeting May 2, 2023

Approval of Bridges math curriculum and SB 670 discussed

Affirmative Action has been around for over half a century, which has tilted the playing field in favor of minorities and against whites, especially white males. Everyone now of working age has been in that environment. I don't know of whites complaining about that, but the left sure wants to keep complaining about something that has not impacted anyone of current working age. Only some of advanced age would perhaps remember the last gasps of Jim Crow from their early childhood. You progs are beating a dead horse.

Kemi Badenoch, a black woman serving in Boris Johnson's cabinet called Critical Race Theory "a dangerous trend in race relations" in a speech on the floor of the House of Commons that was called "the speech of the year" in the UK. You can hear the most acclaimed part of that speech here: www.youtube.com

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 10:21 am By: John Steed

Jim Crow didn't happen a long time ago.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 9:46 am By: Big Bob

This inherited racial guilt business is just utter nonsense. I had a black handyman who used to do some work for me explain how it upset himm saying "I haven't been a slave. I don't know anybody who has been a slave. That all happened a long time ago and makes no difference to today"

The Marxist "Critical Theory" created by Herbert Marcuse, former cheif ideologue of the German Communist Party is where this business of trying to divide society between victims and oppressors comes from. When you spout it, you are being a "good little Marxist".

This division into victims and oppressors gets really weird, too, when one considers that before the War Between the States, only about 3 to 5% of whites in the south owned slaves. The rest did not. About 20% of Southern blacks were free blacks and about 10% of them owned slaves themselves. How does your Critical Race Theory deal with descendants of blacks who were slave owners? Your contrived litmus test does not work very well does it? And what about those people, both black and white, whose ancestors arrived after 1865 so that they had no dog in the slavery fight at all?

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 7:57 pm By: John Steed

Said the white man.
Look, my group was the oppressor in the context of US history. Knowing that is difficult, but not even close to what the oppressed actually lived through, and in some ways still experience. Are you really such a coward you cant even acknowledge it? Man up. Mistakes were made. Show some some humility. Some humanity for the suffering of others.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 5:44 pm By: Big Bob

Some have asked who voted for and against the Bridges math curriculum.
Charles Hickman III - against
Donald Shreve - against
Gary Carlton - for
Terry Draper - for
TW Allen - for
Terry Williams - for
Carolyn Walker - for
Elthe Booth - for
Mack Hodges - for

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 6:11 pm By: Ray Leary

History should be taught from an AMERICAN perspective, not a globalist perspective or a woke perspective, and it should be taught honestly. Different groups should not be pigeonholed as "victims" or "oppressors" to fit some extremist political narrative. Evertything in life does NOT revolve around race, except to the racists on each side, and the leftwing race hustlers like you, Bib, are as much racist as the KKK.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 5:30 pm By: Rino Hunter

You mean from a "white" perspective.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 4:13 pm By: Big Bob

When I grew up, they still taught real history from an American perspective in the schools. When I see the woke propaganda being sold to school children today, it makes me angry. I don't know which course is the best, but most of the big education companies seem to play to the big liberal states and what they produce is just not appropriate.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 11:26 am By: Rino Hunter

Members of the extreme left like you only want history / social studies courses that politically indoctrinate children with your ideology. If it is not full of the woke doctrines of CRT, DEI, and ESG, and even the 1619 Project you do not want it.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 10:19 am By: John Steed

Nobody in their right mind would adopt the Hillsdale College anything.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:21 am By: Big Bob

Board Chairman T.W. Allen got his comeupance over his shrill attacks on the three conservative school board members concerning legislation to authorize the traditional Hillsdale College social studies curriculum. After a parade of leftwing Democrat legislators called Allen to protest that bill, Allen became the mouthpiece of those lefties to attack the conservative members for their supposed role in that bill. As it turned our that role of those conservative members in that legislation was minimal.

It also turned out that legally, such legislatiion was not even necessary. The board already has the legal authority to adopt the Hillsdale curriculum if it chooses to.

Allen parroting the crap from these Democrat legislators is an outrage to Beaufort County parents.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:11 am By: John Steed

That tape shows we have a bunch of pathetic seat warmers on our school board, who are yes men / women for the superintendant and his minions. Some have an "R" by their names but do not seem to be much of real Republicans. Some are openly Democrat. A few seem to really care, but they are a minority of the board.

That Dr. Phillips told them last meeting that the Bridges curriculum was "not common core". This meeting they had to admit that Bridges website boasts about how their curriculum actually aligns with Common Core. Was Phillips just uninformed last meeting or was he deliberately trying to mislead them? Neither answer speaks well for our school bureaucracy.

Watching some of the school board members dance around why they would still vote for a curriculum that aligns with the failed Common Core AND contains woke "social justice" components would be amusing if it were not sad for our students. So, "experience teachers" might delete the social justice dogma? What about less experienced teachers or those who buy the leftwing dogma of the radical NCAE? Experienced teachers might take out some of the Common Core elements? What about inexperienced teachers or lazy teachers or teachers who think they need to follow what is given to them? The parents of Beaufort County were offered silly excuses, not a solid math curriculum free of political indoctrination and without the failed Common Core which damages students math ability.

Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 12:24 pm By: Rino Hunter

Stop yelling.

Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 9:31 am By: Big Bob