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The effort opposing the Hillsdale program originated from Cheesman an the liberal faction of thee school board. We are a free country. Anyone can request changes in legislation and new legislation. It is the woke activists (Cheesman and his activist buddies on the school board) who oppose this legislation.
Setting the record straight, Cheesman and the board have been offered the Hillsdale program for more than three years. His comments in the article published in the Washington Daily News are intended to mislead. Cheesman knows all about the Hillsdale studies. That is why liberals like him are opposed to it.
Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 6:14 am
By: Hood Richardson
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THis is typical liberal disinformation. That "My Turn" colunn in the Washington Daily News is from the education correspondant of the far left NC Policy Watch, which now calls itself NC Newsline. It is part of a leftwing network called States Newsroom, whose murky funding is hidden. Even the liberal establishment "fact checker" NewsGuard has critized that organization for having an activst agenda but not disclosing who was paying for it.
What happened was that Kidwell and other legislators were working on a broader bill to authorize the Hillsdale curriculum, and the legislative research staff determined that there was already legislative authorization for local school boards to adopt it, so no new legislation was necessary. The education establishment has over the years gone from garden variety liberal to progressive woke in its slant on history, pushed by radical teachers unions and education bureaucrats. That resulted in the highly controversial new social studies curriculum adopted by the NC Board of Education, dominated by leftwing appointees of Governor Cooper. The big education companies pander to the big liberal states in pushing curricula they provide farther and farther to the left. "Wokeness" has been injected into much of the education establishment's offerings, and that is why a poll last year showed that 71% of North Carolina parents were concerned about political indoctrination in the schools. The key is finding a traditional history / social studies curriculum that is not full of the woke alphabet soup of CRT, DEI, and ESG. Hillsdale College produces one that is respected by those not on the extreme left, but there are others. Texas demanded that the big education companies modify their curricula to present more traditional history, so Texas approved options would seem to be one way to accomplish this. FLorida has also taken a hard line in approving only curricula that are not "woke", so looking at curricula approved in Florida would also be an option. The bottom line is that our school board needs to exercise the statutory authority it already has to adopt a trandtional non-woke curriculum.
Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 5:41 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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If I was the Devil I would be running from Keith Kidwell.
Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 8:59 am
By: Browny Douglas
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