Comments for Why is Sup't Cheeseman covering for radical Critical Race Theory? | Eastern North Carolina Now

Just because I speak of different races and cultures doesn't mean its all I think about. I like to provide a little balance from the very white perspectives found here. That's why DEI is important. You guys talk all white, all the time and apparently don't realize it. When you don't even know you are doing it, that's pretty white.

Is white bad? No!
Neither is everybody else.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 4:17 pm By: Big Bob

Speaking of Attorneys, does everyone know that our City of Washington Attorney was reprimanded by the NCBAR?
www.ncbar.gov\Holscher,%20Franz%20Rep%2019G0115.pdf&keyword=

What is the school boards attorney's name? One can never be surprised about who may be found listed there for disciplinary action.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 2:06 pm By: Washingtonian

For the perspective of a black woman on Critical Race Theory, see the video from Kemi Badenoch in the article above. She calls it "a dangerous trend in race relations that has come far too close to my life." People of all race, other than the extreme left, realize that this divisive Marxist dogma of Critical Race Theory is bad for society.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 10:48 am By: John Steed

Thanks white guys! Appreciate the perspective.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By: big bob

A current school board member gave me some insight on how the current out of town school board attorney came to represent the school system. During the Covid era some issues arose between the last local attorney to serve as school board attorney and Superintendant Cheeseman, and also between that attorney and at least one board member. Ultimately, she resigned to take another position.

While in Perquimans County, Cheeseman had used the attorney who represents school boards in lawsuits over a million dollars to serve as the general local school board attorney as well. Each local school board pays into a trust run by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) that handles such major lawsuits, and this attorney handles cases for that trust. Cheeseman suggested bringing him in as Beaufort County School Board attorney for routine legal matters, like he had done in Perquimans County rather than retaining another local attorney, and the school board agreed.

Using an attorney with such a close relationship with DPI is a two edged sword. On matters where there is a minor disagreement, his relationships may help positively resolve them for the local board. However, in more major disagreements that cannot be so easily settled, it puts such an attorney in a very awkward position caught between a relatively minor client, and another who is a gatekeeper of his bread and butter.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 9:22 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Tier one counties like ours, often attract Superintendents that need a stepping stone to another job. Cheeseman got a raise and contract renewal before the three new Board members were installed. So now he boasts that he cannot be fired because it would cost too much. If he keeps the DOE and the Teachers Union happy, he feels pretty secure. The Curriculum is not the responsibility of the Superintendent entirely. It is the responsibility of the School Board which is currently very weak and has not learned yet that Cheeseman is Hired Help. Leaving the subliminal message in their resolution that CRT can be justified is purely a smoke screen that our inept school board allowed while Cheeseman made sure to CHA. Teacher protection, Parental involvement, better discipline, and improved learning can be changed with some changes on your Beaufort County School Board.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 4:27 pm By: Buzz Cayton

DEI has been banned by serveral states in universities and / or public schools. All states with common sense leadership should do so. DEI is extremely divisive and is the polar opposite of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous admonition that people should be "judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin." And "social justice" is just another term for socialism.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 1:34 pm By: Conservative Voter

Stan, while DEI is in the same woke orbit as CRT, they are not the same thing. The left has come up with new terms for CRT, but it is not DEI. DEI has existed alongside CRT for some time.

These terms are far left buzzwords, and those who use them in an approving manner are speaking volumes about their own personal ideology by doing so. Thanks to Sloan Rachmuth for the tipoff about Cheeseman's dissertation, which he wrote while employed with Beaufort County Schools.

The out of town attorney that Cheeseman brought on board is easy to check out. There is only one person who shows up at the NC Board of Elections with that name registered to vote in North Carolina, and their website also shows he made some rather hefty Democrat contributions. A little further online search reveals the leadership position he has held in the Durham County Democrat Party. A little vettng by school board members could have found the same thing, if they had bothered to have done so.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 9:45 am By: John Steed