Comments for What Does It Take To Get A Curriculum In Beaufort County Schools? | Eastern North Carolina Now

Yes Bubba...WHY dont they?

My reply to Commissioner Deatherage is that there is sometimes a thin line between a lie & an excuse. (Trump's motto: "Fight, Fight.")

I'm just saying that your excuses dont pass the smell test.
There is no "standing" when it comes to who can make a public records request.
The govt doesnt even request an I.D. much less a photo I.D.
So a person's request is practically anonymous, except that to get a digital reply, one needs an email address. A new email address is easy to get.
I just cant understand why a commissioner who says he is fighting for us, wont do whatever is necessary to simply make a public records request. And then if they dont get a reply, report it to tipline@ncauditor.net.

Commented: Friday, March 28th, 2025 @ 11:42 am By: Washingtonian

Why doesn't someone at the Observer do a freedom of information act request of the school system for all of their records on this school project? They may try to stall you, but they will have to give up those records sometime.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 7:20 pm By: Bubba

That is a very strange response Stan.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 6:18 pm By: Washingtonian

I actually did it as a motion at the last commissioners' meeting, and this issue of transparency faile 3 to 4, with the Conservatives losing to the Center-Left Coalition.

I will continue to ask for the Title Search from BCS is open meeting, but at some point: Someone from the public may need to file a freedom of information act request. That usually works ... eventually.

My continual requesting said Title Search in open session, while videographed, is my favored avenue to proceed.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 5:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, If it is a public record and I believe it is, then it cant be hidden.
Why havent you made an official written request to receive this public record on behalf of all the citizens?

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 12:08 pm By: Washingtonian

Getting back to curriculum, it is my understanding that Dr. Parker said they were now working on science curicula. This is an area, too, that needs to be closely watched to avoid "woke" indoctrination. Climate alarmism is a big part of the "woke" agenda as well as of the globalist ideology.

The CO2 theory of climate is controversal both scientifically and politically. A curriculum that presents that theory as fact and ignores scientific viewpoints that disagree is nothing but political indoctrination of students. That is the very thing that the Civitas poll showed 71% of North Carolina parents oppose.

When a lawsuit was brpught against British public schools for showing Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth", the British High Court ruled that the movie is a "propaganda film" that contains multiple mistatements of fact and ordered that it could not be shown to school children unless there were disclaimers given of those things. We do not need a school curriculum that spews the same sort of one sided propaganda.

What students need to hear is both sides of the argument. A good counter to Gore's movie is a British TV documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" broadcast nationally on the UK's Channel 4. That documentarey interviews many prominent scientists from around the world who debunk the CO2 global warming theory. It is available on the internet: www.youtube.com

A number of scientists have also written books debunking the CO2 global warming theory. They would also be resources for the schools to show that side of the debate.

In addition to the scientific debate on this subject, there is also a political debate on it both here and in Europe. For the last few years, there have been mass protests by farmers against the EU's climate agenda, which the farmers denounce as "Climate Communism". In the last EU election, parties that oppose the EU climate agenda made major gains across the continental while the "green" parties suffered major losses. Dr. Vaclav Klaus, twice elected prime minister and twice president of the Czech Republic, a member of the mainstream right Civic Democrats, has openly called climate alarmism "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."

Here in the US, President Trump has withdrawn our country from the Paris Climate Accords. His EPA appointees have also announced that they plan to withdraw the Obama EPA's "finding" that CO2 is a hazard.

When a subject is highly debated in both science and politics, it is only fair that both sides be presented to students in our schools so that they have all the information to make up their own minds.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 1:08 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Washingtonian: The Center-Left Coalition of the Beaufort County Commissioners voted that it remain hidden as long as they are in power.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 11:11 am By: Stan Deatherage

RINO Hunter: I am well satisfied that few school board members showed up to act at the Beaufort County Republican Convention.

First, the majority of them pay little attention to detail, and therefore, are slaves to the status quo.

Second, the majority of them do what they are told rather than think through semi complex situations or policy issues.

Third, the majority of them are no friends of transparency in self-governing as proved by the public communications within their public meetings.

Fourth, the majority of them rarely work in concert with what is conservative in ideology and, likewise, prudent in practice.

Fifth, of the four elected Republicans at the convention voting to successfully expand the transparent reach of the Executive Committee, of those that remained to vote, only one was a Conservative - Charles Hickman.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 11:00 am By: Stan Deatherage

Remember these truths about the infamous 4 acres of land:

First - If Beaufort County Schools had done their "homework" before considering the design of a 52 million school that they actually do NOT need, they would have known that they did not have title to all of the property thought owned, and then they could have elected to design beyond that real property encumbrance.

Secondly - If the successful and innovative designing around that reality of not owning land was undesired, the Beaufort County Schools could have negotiated, at no cost, a trade for one piece of unneeded land, owned by the schools, for another piece of unneeded land by The City of Washington, all at NO cost to Beaufort County's taxpayers.

Third - Since neither the successful negotiation for land was enacted, or an innovative design on land known to have not been owned was performed, the Schools asked the pathetically incompetent Center-Left Coalition, within the Beaufort County Commission, to waste $500,000.00 for overpriced land that was never needed to be purchased and paid for in the first place.

I do believe that I have professed the history of this sorry bit of terrible governing, properly delivered in its essential formation, as an allegory of how NOT to govern, by representation of, our self-governed People.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 10:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

DANIEL Hudson campaigned as a conservative, but so far he is a knee jerk supporter of the Cheeseman faction. Was he pulling voters legs in his campaign or does the Cheeseman mafia have something incriminating or embarassing on him? He is a huge disappointment as he asks "how high?" when Cheeseman says "jump". He is being controlled by Cheeseman.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 8:51 am By: Conservative Voter

Superintendants are always looking at that next bigger better paying job in another district and they are allergic to having anything conservative on their resume or anything that rocks the boat with the education establishment in Raleigh. They do not mind a totally "woke" curriculum but do nto want one that is traditional or conservative. Cheeseman is the usual breed of cat one gets with a superintendant but even more of a control freak than usual.

What is appalling is that we have so many weak school board members who are content to be led around by the nose by a liberal superintendant. Some of them can talk the talk but then absolutely refuse to walk the walk. This is absoolutely sickening. These weak kneed politicians are just pathetic. We need "woke" out of our schools and they just twiddle their thumbs. We do NOT need school board members who are yes-men to a liberal superintendant and grovel at his feet. We need school board members who will stand up and be counted for bringing in a proper curriculum.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 8:15 am By: John Steed