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BO: You're right of course. The School Board should demand a Long-Range Facility Plan before they ever commit to any of these projects. They need to have the discipline not to go for anything that does not fit within the long-range plan. Too bad we have a school board where the tail wags the dog.
Commented: Friday, February 7th, 2025 @ 8:59 am
By: Van Zant
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VZ - no black history thread ever makes it in the BO, so yes, I hijacked this thread because it's about schools and it's February. Sure, its woke to talk about actual US history and I certainly didn't mean to ruffle your sensibilities. I know how important cherished beliefs can be and hope you are emotionally in a safe place. If you need a 800 counseling line to help process the fairy tail with actual history , I can provide. Stay safe.
CV - Who fought in what army is a moot point. Slaves can't consent.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 2:48 pm
By: Big Bob
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Building that mega-school is not about what's best for education in Beaufort County. I tis about what looks best for Cheeseman's resume for when he tries to move up to a higher paying job at a bigger school system. Cheeseman was not about to do any professional studies that would send the money elsewhere in the system, nor was he going to allow input from the peasants (public) that might also derail his resume enhancement. He did not even bring legal counsel into the process, which led to that fiasco about the 4 acres. It was ALL about Cheeseman and his resume, not about edcuation in our county.
Unfortunately, Cheeseman has had a pack of rubber stamps in the majority on the school board who just sat back and said "yes, boss". On top of that was the corrupt arrangement of two school board members with husbands on the county commission. It was a confict of interest and completely unethical for them to vote on any of these matters.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 1:31 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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It is absolutely absurd that the county would spend 50 million dollars without a Long Range Facility Plan that includes various alternatives the board could consider, including revisions in the student assignment patterns...such as PreK-5 neighborhood schools in Washington. Such planning should/would include the impact of the proposed Interstate connector from the Greenville By-pass (read ECU medical district) and the new Fred Smith proposed subdivision. What we are getting from Cheeseman is a planning model that is 50 years out of date NOW. The people have spoken...there is a new majority on the School Board but still three members control the planning. Actually two members, one of whom is not elected (superintendent). That is absurd. A solid Long Range Plan would save more than it cost. At a minimum the Board should debate the utility of mega elementary schools that depend on cross-town busing. More absudity! Where is the new majority on the School Board?
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 11:57 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Van Zant: Big Bob represents the cognitive heart of the Non Patriot Left, also known as the Non Reasoning Left, and in that purpose, he is a perfect foil for the rest of our readership that actually possess real functional knowledge balanced against Big Bob's clichéd Leftist pronouncements.
Regardless of whether any of his rhetoric makes any sense to my logical mind; however, the Non Patriot Left does exist, and we do welcome all opinions, of a non slanderous nature, here on ENCNOW.com.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 10:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It seems that what is happening now is part of an established process of poor planning and broken promises.
In all of this, Chocowinity Primary School still does not have a 5th grade on campus. The CPS 5th grade is located on the Chocowinity Middle School campus. Has anywhere else in North Carolina done this? Also, around County/City merger time the greatest needs in the County were identified as Belhaven and Aurora. I never quite understood how the answer to that was losing John A. Wilkenson. Maybe there are things I don't know about that one, but it makes me wonder. At the time I wasn't very negative about the Chocowinity / Aurora High School consolidation. I've had second thoughts since then. When this was going on, assurances were given to Aurora area residents not to worry, because younger children would not be subjected to having to travel increased distances. Nowadays it appears that promise is off the table too. Consequently, I'm for having a time out on everything until we've had a detailed study done resulting in a coherent plan for Beaufort County. This hodgepodge planning seems to be headed for nowhere good. P.S.- I can't see where any of this Beaufort County business has anything to do with Tula [Tulsa] Oklahoma in 1921.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 9:41 am
By: Van Zant
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Never heard of the Corwin amemdment to the US Constitution?
I was over 50 when I firar heard of it. It was passed by the northern-controlled US Congress by supermajority in March 1861, submitted to the states for ratification, and endorsed by Lincoln in his first inaugural address. It gives the lie to the argument that the north entered the War Between the States to free the slaves because if the Corwin Amendment had been ratified by the states, it would have enshrined slavery in the US Constitution where it could not have been abolished from the federal level. Wonder why our pro-northern history books have covered that up even before they became woke?
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 9:10 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Well, Bobbie, I think it would help race relations if they would teach about the minority soldiers and sailors who served in the Confederate army. That is something that woke history wants to hide.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 8:22 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Never heard of the Tula Massacre?
I was almost 50 when I learned about it. I asked myself, how could I get through post graduate studies in American schools and never learn about it?
Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 8:02 pm
By: Big Bob
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In Beaufort County there seems to be more effort put into how to get lottery and any other funding they can get their hands on in order to consolidate and less effort put into planning for actual needs. I see transportation crisis on the horizon with this locked in thinking.
Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 5:51 am
By: Van Zant
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Shockingly, no thread on black history this February;
So I choose a post about the schools as my best option: The Tulsa Massacre www.reuters.com(Reuters)%20%2D%20Tulsa,compensation%20for%20victims%20have%20failed.
Commented: Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 @ 10:10 pm
By: Big Bob
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Good point Delma on the cross town bussing conundrum; however, this new school building craze due to all this "Free Money" for schools in areas where there are declining student populations is quite the phenomenon to behold, and may not very well yield an abundance of good common sense.
Commented: Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 @ 11:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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