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School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education
Commented: Saturday, August 24th, 2024 @ 7:16 pm
By: Will Simmons
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I wonder if there is some ulterior purpose for these huge schools. They don't seem to be based on educational needs. They seem contrary to the best interests of education.
What you point out about Cheeseman is all the more reason to watch everything he recommends. A board majority of Cheeseman rubberstamps is NOT in the best interests of Beaufort County.
Commented: Saturday, August 24th, 2024 @ 6:23 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Hite Associates has designed and contracted many of these huge new high capacity schools all over.
Jimmy Hite is a board member of the private Oakwood school in Greenville. This private school boasts about the high performance of their students and contributes some of their success to the small class sizes, where students can get a more personal learning experience. His actions and his beliefs seem to be in contradiction. Disgraced superintendent Jeff Moss, who was accused of nepotism, unethical conduct, and cronyism, always seemed to hire Hite no matter what state or school district he was working for. Cheeseman is also an Advisory Board member to this “RTM Group”, which gave him an award as top superintendent. RTM- meaning “Route to Market” is just about selling digital teaching sewage. They are literally snake oil salesman with no concern about the actual learning of students. www.rtmbgevents.com I’m really sick of these conglomerate groupies pooling their collective resources to rip off the taxpayer for millions. They sell big expensive ideas that truly offer nothing of substance. Then once they have sold what they can, they move to another district to do the same. If we think that 10mil is all the taxpayers will be on the hook for, we may be gravely mistaken. The past shows us Hite Associates tends to go over budget.
Commented: Saturday, August 24th, 2024 @ 3:29 pm
By: Will Simmons
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The people not to elect to school boards are the woke and those seat warmers who are yes men for the bureaucracy. T.W. Allen, Eltha Booth, and Mack Hodges fall into both of those categories. We need a change. The conservatives are trying to get some reform but the rubberstamps for the bureaucracy have thwarted it so far. They need some reinforcements by getting rid of those three.
Commented: Saturday, August 24th, 2024 @ 2:27 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Regardless how you feel about the schools board electing MGAA candidates is not the solution. Around the country this party has been given a chance and for the most part failed. Many are not being re-elected. Why?
They cant govern. They are a grievance driven and can’t get anything done. Elect republicans not MAGA.
Commented: Saturday, August 24th, 2024 @ 9:33 am
By: Big Bob
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So Cheeseman chose a school construction firm that has been investigated by the FBI to build his huge new elementary school. Ironically, that was in South Carolina's Beaufort County schools. That is a huge red flag that this boondoggle needs to be watched like a hawk. It smells to high heaven.
Commented: Saturday, August 24th, 2024 @ 8:16 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Keywords for any who care:
School Construction Jimmy Hite; (Hite Associates) FBI Investigation Dr. Jeffery Moss; Superintendent Oakwood School Questions about conflict of interests and ethical behavior. Should a board member of a private school be in charge of designing public schools? Why is so much money being poured into large school construction projects? Something smells funny… #CutTheCheese www.blufftontoday.com
Commented: Friday, August 23rd, 2024 @ 11:12 pm
By: Will Simmons
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Buzz, the NC statute that is directly on point says that the elected local school board is the final authority on approving a curriculum. No entity at the state level has the authority to tell them what they can and cannot approve. That is the position of the legal staff at the NC General Assembly when they advised Rep. Kidwell, and it is IMHO an accurate statement of the law.
Entities in Raleigh try to claim control of curriculum based on testing provisions, but that is a real stretch. There is a decades long history of education entities in Raleigh attempting to assert controls over local school boards that they simply do not have and this is one example.
Commented: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Why would our elected school board members surrender this much power to the likes of Cheeseman? Rubverstamps like T.W. Allen need to GO.
Commented: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 3:30 pm
By: Bubba
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So, Cheeseman does not want kids taught about our founding fathers and founding documents. Or multiplication tables or cursive writing. We need to ship him back to California where he belongs, not running our schools! Too bad we can't send his minions T.W. Allen, Eltha Booth, and Mack Hodges with him, but at least we can vote those un-American phonies out of office. Our schools are in the mess they are because of liberal bureaucrats like Cheeseman and suck-up school board members like Allen, Booth, and Hodges.
Commented: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 2:51 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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I have been following this saga for a while and regret that the effort did not get any farther, but with that clique of Cheeseman brown nosers on the board, it was always likely.
Van Zant is right about how silly that argument by Cheeseman and his sock puppets was. Teachers are going to be a lot more imtimidated by administrators, especially a control freak like Cheeseman and anyone working for him, than a school board member. The real concern of that group was probably that the presence of a school board member may have lessened Cheeseman's ability to pressure the committee to get what he wanted. But they have made silly excuses all along to thwart curriculum reform. Another was that Durham shyster whining about the parents community standard committee having to meet Open Meetings standards. Duh! All government bodies have to do that and it is not a big deal at all. It was nothing but a silly excuse to block public input. I can understand the liberal Democrats like Mac Hodges and Eltha Booth eating out of Cheeseman's hand. They are all peas in a lefty pod. What is appalling is RINO T.W. Allen being Cheeseman's sock puppet. If T.W. Allen wants to function like a Democrat, why is he not honest enough to actually register as a Democrat? If Cheeseman says "jump", Allen asks "How high?"
Commented: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 11:23 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Am I to understand that the argument against a board member on a curriculum committee would be that it might be intimidating to teachers on the committee? That's pretty bogus when you consider that other staff members that may be on the committee have much more to do with hiring and firing of teachers than a school board member. School board members only have the ability to hire and fire a superintendent and that is only if they have a board majority.
Some of these arguments presented by the entrenched board members and the superintendent seem ridiculous. Do they really believe it makes sense to the public? 
Commented: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 10:48 am
By: Van Zant
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Someone help me with the rules. I understand that the State DPE requires that the students meet end-of-grade testing. The Curriculum is left up to the School Board. The Board would ask for professional input from the Superintendent but he does not make the final decision on the Curriculum. Based on the near-filing grades of eight of our thirteen schools, it looks like we need to take a good look at the the board and the administration.
Commented: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 9:44 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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