Comments for Heartburn at the Beaufort County School Board | Eastern NC Now

MAGA can’t even visit Arlington National Cemetery without getting into a fight.

MAGA can’t govern. Vote republican.

Commented: Thursday, August 29th, 2024 @ 8:50 am By: Big Bob

Van Zant - The seating arrangement of the BC School Board has also always struck me as very odd. It is not only totally different from other local government bodies, but also from the state boards and commissions I used to work with. When I served as a departmental General Counsel in the Jim Martin administration, one of my responsibilities was to monitor the rulemaking boards and commissions housed under our department such as the NC Social Services Commission, NC Child Daycare Commission, and NC Mental Health Commission for the cabinet secretary who administered the department. Those sommissions were staffed by top officials of the division or section handling the appropriate policy area. Staff, including division directors or section chiefs were not seated with the commission itself, but down the side, much like many of our local governments. Seating paid staff among board or commission members is just strange.

Commented: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 @ 6:05 pm By: Steven P. Rader

HR-undoubtedly one of the most uneducated assessments of our educational system I’ve read.
Teaching actual American history isn’t why many American kids are stupid. Blaming spoiled lazy people who couldn’t be bothered to read a book on that fact white people often treat people of color like sh^t is the most racist garbage you ever posted.

MAGA- fact free, vote republican!

Commented: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 @ 10:19 am By: Big Bob

Little Bobbie displays yet again how utterly ignorant he is. All public bodies have seating charts, whether it is congress, state legislature, county commission, school board, or whatever. Sometimes the bodies vote on them, but more often they are assigned by the presiding officer.

What is really weird about the Beaufort County School Board is that they seat their top bureaucrat up with the elected members, so Cheeseman can be the big cheese and whisper in board chairman T.W. Allen's ear, telling him what to do. You don't see the county manager sitting up their with the elected members of the county commission or the city manager sitting up there with the elected Washington City Council. Cheeseman thinks he is really special, and our rubber stamp school board majority seems to think so, too.

Commented: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 @ 9:56 am By: Rino Hunter

Will, what you linked to was the second draft by conservative school board members, not the final Cheeseman draft. The final Cheeseman draft took OUT those things you mentioned.

Commented: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 @ 8:05 am By: Steven P. Rader

We need to vote on where to sit? Just proves what I’ve been saying. MAGA- they can’t govern

Commented: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 @ 7:47 am By: Big Bob

Let’s see, so HR is quick to point out democrats were the party of the KKK and the likes, and he was a democrat?

Just proves what I’ve been saying. After 1964, the racist democrats left the party and took over the Republican Party. And MAGA was born

Commented: Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 @ 10:40 pm By: Big Bob

Good news is, it appears from the recent revisions made to the curriculum development policy, any new curriculum must require lessons in cursive and further instruction in the memorization of multiplication tables.

Strange news is, the rewording of the policy seemingly to alleviate accountability regarding the curriculum choosing process.

go.boarddocs.com$file/Policy%203100%20-%20DS%20revised.pdf

I agree with the curriculum team that sounds fine but in my opinion all school board members should be active members of this team participating in the process. They are the ones accountable to the voter not teachers or parents. I understand they will vote at the end of the process whether to approve the curriculum or veto it but I feel like they should all take a hands on approach. It is what they were elected to do .

Commented: Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 @ 10:46 pm By: Will Simmons

The woke agenda involves lots of things and using things like the 1619 project instead of real history is indeed part of it, but so are things like radical gender theory. Actually, I am a big fan of British public education law that requires teachers to present both sides of any politically contested theory or issue. Students should be presented with both sides. I have never heard of one of the woke fairy tales that does tnat. Indeed the inventor of the 1619 Project admits that it is not history. That also applies to science, where I doubt many teachers are teaching both sides of the science on climate issues.

Commented: Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 @ 5:52 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Bath parent, there is an important issue being addressed all over the country that has nothing to do with any personalities in Beaufort County, either Richardson or Cheeseman, and that is whether public schools will have a woke curriculum or a more traditional curriculum. It is a battle between parents, who polls show that in NC 71% are concerned about political indoctrination of their chidlren in the classroom, and the woke education establishment in Raleigh. Governor Cooper has put some really far out leftists on the state school board.

As the legal staff of the General Assembly pointed out, correctly, to Representative Kidwell, county boards of education have absolute authority in choosing a curriculum and do not have to kowtow to the woke state board of education. The original draft of the new local curriculum policy recognized that right. The changes announced by Cheeseman waved a white flag to kowtow to the Raleigh education establishment. That was a big blow to local control of local schools.

Raleigh has been trying to assert too much control of local schools for decades. I remember a couple of meetings of the old Pitt-Beaufort Conservative Union back in the late 1970s, when one of our members, a conservative Democrat who was school board attorney for Pitt County told us a big part of his work for the schools was fighting off efforts by Raleigh to tell the local schools what to do when Raleigh had no legal basis to assert such control. The only thing that seems to have changed on this front is less backbone among local leaders to fight it.

Commented: Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 @ 5:24 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Says what?
MAGA - offering hate since 2016

Commented: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 8:31 am By: Big Bob