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Can’t get nothing by the hawk
 Washingtonitilist might have been worried about the repercussions of using the correct terminology after what had happened to that poor boy in that one NC school. Imagine being a child and learning definitions in school, but when they tell you, “use it in a sentence” your sentence becomes an illegal hate crime. The one sane child is sent to mental health counseling when in fact it is the teachers and administrators who are the ones in desperate need of it. Talk about traumatizing a child.
Commented: Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 @ 8:59 pm
By: Will Simmons
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"Illegal alien" is the correct term as defined in federal immigration law for foreign citizens who are in our country illegally. However, federal immigration law defines "immigrant" as only those foreign citizens who are properly going through the legal immigration process.
"illegal immigrant" is a contradiction in terms because if they are here illegally, they are NOT an immigrant under the definitions of federal immigration law. Indeed that term is an insult to real immigrants who are lawfully going through the immigration process.
Commented: Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 @ 8:10 pm
By: borderhawk
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Good catch Washington for not using the term “illegal alien”
Commented: Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 @ 7:20 pm
By: Will Simmons
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Perhaps the new school will be repurposed to house illegal immigrants.
Commented: Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 @ 5:52 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Eastern NC has many huge new beautiful schools. I guess after every one is rebuilt only to discover it has no impact on the actual learning taking place, we can move to the real issues.
Commented: Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 @ 8:53 pm
By: Will Simmons
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So Cheeseman is trying to build the largest elementary school ever built in North Carolina. It is easy to see how that benefits Cheeseman's resume but it is hard to see how it benefits education in Beaufort County. The school board majority is nothing but Cheeseman's useful idiots and Beaufort County voters deserve better.
Commented: Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 @ 8:18 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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We continue to get poor decisions from this group. Change the method. Change the results. We need better management and there is an election coming up.
Commented: Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 @ 12:04 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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According to a retired Education professor I was talking to today, this would be one of the largest K-3 elementary schools in the state of North Carolina. No other K3 elementary school in the area comes close to housing 1,000 students. I can just imagine the traffic jams of parents picking up and dropping off that many kids at one school together with all the buses. Does that make good sense? Is that what is in the best interest of education in Beaufort County?
The planning process has been behind closed doors, but it is apparent that the school system has failed to get a school population study, which DPI will do for free if asked. Our system has a declining enrollment, and this mega school may be a white elephant in a few years. There are also studies that can be done, coordinated by DPI but actually done by NC State University, that calculate where in a county the school population will be in the future. That would seem to be critical in figuring out where to put a new school. Apparently this was not done either. I recall in the past hearing projections of population growth to the west of Washington instead of on the east side of it, but I am not sure how that plays into school age population. All of us as taxpayers want to see our public funds used in the most effective manner possible, and from what is apparent so far, this project does not meet those standards.
Commented: Monday, June 17th, 2024 @ 9:00 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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The public has been completely ignored in this process. A school board that cared about representing the prople would have sought public input at two stages of the provess. First in asking what the public thought were the top school construction needs, which should have been done early on before any planning was even started. Once a concrete pland was devised, that also should have been submitted to a public hearing. Tnstead this board did everything in secret without any public input. Of course, input from outside experts should also have been obtained and it wasn't
Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 7:37 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Beaufort County has a Tammany Hall style government both with its school board and county commission. No transparency is in the process because everything is done by secret deals in the backroom. Our school system has had this problem for some time as our last school construction spree built too much space some places and left needs unmet in others. We are seeing the same "fly by the seat of their pants" approach this time, and probably worse.
The big cheese on that committee is Cheeseman. T.W. Allen is a joke, and little more than Cheeseman's sock puppet. When Cheeseman says "jump" he asks how high? Frankie Waters owes Cheeseman a big political favot, so he will rubber stamp whatever Cheeseman wants. When Waters wanted to screw his adversary Commissioner Stan Deatherage out of the school website contract, Cheeseman did his dirty work for him, and so now Waters owes that favor, putting him in Cheeseman's pocket. This is a one man show, and it is all Cheeseman. Cheeseman wants what he wants for his own resume and does not care about the impact on education in Beaufort County.
Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Steed
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