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Steed, I agree with you in your statement that the school building situation is a distraction from other matters that people within the County may not be aware of.
This may be a "city" matter but I feel the County should weigh in on the business of our downtown district turning into a "black-centric" (words of an official who shall remain nameless) little Switzerland. Rumour has it that the City is pushing for a "cityscape" that would encourage what THEY classify as "minimal traffic in the downtown area". It sounds as if they are trying to mirror what the City of Greenville and the Pitt County Commissioners are doing....which could prove to be very costly to Beaufort County taxpayers as well as a political nightmare for those involved. The Summer Festival has been a test run for their proposed downtown trolley service (a service that we would ultimately pay for), so I hear. As Mr. Jerry McRoy has written, I'd be very cautious about following Pitt County's lead. Things are wonky
Commented: Saturday, June 8th, 2024 @ 11:23 am
By: John Valley
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PJJ, I think this new school boondoggle may be a "bright and shiny object" to try to distract from the school system's huge failures in educating our children as shown by so many low scores by Beaufort County schools, and particularly in Washington on the state standardized tests. That has nothing to do with buildings and everything to do with a subpar curriculum. The school board members up this year are nothing but rubberstamps for our liberal superintendant. The tail is wagging the dog, and that is where the problem lies.
It is very noticable that local young people working as cashiers have a hard time making change correctly. Their math skills have been degraded by Common Core math, yet Cheeseman's appointees proposed, and his school board sock puppets rubberstamped a woke new math curriculum last year based on, you guessed it, Common Core. One of his top staff even tried to lie to the new conservative school board minority to say that the curriculum was not Common Core, but confronted with the evidence had to backtrack and admit that it was. The rubberstamp school board majority approved it anyway. Another example is cursive writing which state law requires schools to teach but it is a hit and miss proposition here in Beaufort County. I have talked to a number of parents who complain that their children have not been taught cursive. One mentioned going to a restaurant out of town where the menu was in cursive, and his children who had gone to Beaufort County Schools could not read it. It might as well have been written in Greek. Beaufort County Schools are failing our students in curriculum, NOT in buildings.
Commented: Saturday, June 8th, 2024 @ 9:40 am
By: John Steed
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A new school isn’t going to fix the disappointing results from WPS With a declining population why build some giant monstrosity - scale it back and use the money to improve performance in all the city schools. It’s frankly embarrassing- people complain about Washington being over run with retirees when the fact of the matter is - who would move here with school age children. Seems like they like new shiny onjectsbwirh big price tags instead of student performance.
Commented: Friday, June 7th, 2024 @ 8:17 pm
By: PJJ
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Um...no police report means the students were likely white.
Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 2:32 pm
By: Big Bob
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Sounds like another Cheeseman cover up, there, Washingtonian. Good catch. I would not be surprised that the Washington Daily News failed to mention this vandalism. The real question is, who will pay for it? The school superintendant is screwing the taxpayers by failing to file a police report and press charges. Those involved could be forced to pay restitution that way, and it would be a deterant to things like this happening in the future. What sort of deterant is the slap on the wrist of missing graduation? We have a liberal wussy as our superintendant. The school board needs to demand a full public report on this vandalism.
Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 1:08 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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WCTI12.com
1/4 of WHS’s graduating class wont walk across this stage this week aftr officials banned them from graduation ovr participatin n a "SeniorPrank" May29. Puishment is 47 seniors getting their highschool diplomas in mail instead on th stage. Beaufort Co School reps declined an interview but told us in email th prank damaged school property.They sd they are still calculating the cost of th damage. School officials sd they witnessed flipped cafeteria tables. Toilet paper thrown in cafeteria, writing on walls,& eggs were thrown on trophies causin damage 2awards students worked hard 2achieve. Students entered building w a key. They decided not 2file a police report, but they did punish all who sd were involved. We r still waitin 2hear back from BOE officials 2 learn: How each student was involved. The costs of damages. Why decision made2 impose same punishment on all students. Were student roles n prank considered? What were factors leadin 2decision. R appeals permitted?
Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 12:34 pm
By: Washingtonian
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The issue of large consolidated schools versus neighborhood schools has always been an issue that separates conservatives from liberals. Conservatives support neighborhood schools and that is particularly true for elementary school.
School superintendants career paths are to build their resumes to try to move up to larger and better paying school districts, and they look for things that will please the liberal education establishment as the larger districts are more likely to be run by liberals. This huge consolidated elementary school was just what Cheeseman's resume needed for his own career advancement. We cannot overlook the role of liberal "Republican" state Superintendant Catherine Truitt in this boondoggle. She helped steer this money to big consolidated schools instead of neighborhood schools. It is good that she got bounced in the GOP primary by conservative Michelle Morrow, who will follow a conservative and Republican path in that position. Truitt's attempts to buy votes with these last minute grants just before the election did not work. Beaufort County and others that got her consolidation focused grants helped vote her out of office. To really fix education in Beaufort County, we need to take Cheeseman's rubber stamps off of our local school board. T.W. Allen, Mack Hodges, and Eltha Booth all need to be replaced by people who will represent the citizens and taxpayers instead of being sock puppets for our liberal superintendant.
Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 10:30 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Just offing some constructive criticism in a nonjudgemental post. Take it or leave it.
Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 9:40 am
By: Big Bob
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Bib Bob, The truth cuts to deep for some people to handle.
Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 5:01 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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HR we can disagree on anything and everything. No problem.
However when you add insult after insult along with whatever it is we disagree about, eventually I stop listening. I think that's what has happened to you. Not all your ideas are bad, but good lord, people just stop listening. Life is short. It's just not worth putting up with it.
Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 12:04 pm
By: Big Bob
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Big Bob. I treat people like crap when they treat me like crap. Elitists like you think us commoners are honor bound to believe any lie handed to us. When anyone has the courage to disagree he is considered a bad person. To disagree is a sin in the liberal community. That is why liberals get along so well with each other. Swearing to each other lies. How is that working out for you.
Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 10:50 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Translation - it's not corruption, it's nobody likes me and wont vote for my proposals. Generally speaking, when you treat people like crap, they don't do what you want.
Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 8:59 am
By: Big Bob
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What you really have, Hood, is one guy making all the decisions, and that is Matthew Cheeseman. T.W. Allen is nothing but his sock puppet, parotting whatever Cheeseman wants. Allen is so patheric that he cannot even chair the school board without having Cheeseman sitting at his elbow to tell him what to do.
And Frankie Waters? He owes Cheeseman a huge political favor for Cheeseman's helping Frankie hoo-doo Stan Deatherage out of his website contract with the county schools. Cheeseman had his rubber stamp school board give it to an out of town company that charges substantially more money, just to slam Deatherage politically. He did that as a political favor to Frankie Waters, and now Frankie Waters owes him for it. So now, Cheeseman will get whatever he wants out of Waters. Cheeseman is the one driving this bus, and it is all about what will look best on Cheeseman's resume for when he applies to a bigger and better paying school district. What is best for our county is VERY secondary for Cheeseman.
Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 7:19 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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