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In campaigning in front of groups, Daniel Hudson did claim to be against the "woke" curriculum and against seating the superintendent up with the policy makers, the elected school board, at meetings. Once elected he has not raised a peep about either issue. Was he just pulling the wool over the eyes of voters?
Commented: Saturday, April 12th, 2025 @ 7:22 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Daniel Hudson is a RINO of the worst sort. He ran for school board on name recognition only and as a supposedly conservative Republican. He never came out at any time during the campaign on where he stood on any issues and never committed to any stance or position. He was already cuddled up with the rest of the RINOs on the school board throughout the campaign. He seems to be a typical bureaucrat more interested in personal gain and prestige and protecting the establishment instead of representing the people who elected him. His voting record and actions or inactions on the school board has already proven this. This charlatan hoodwinked his district and now is a lockstep Cheeseman puppet.
Don Shreve is usually an advocate for conservative values. Why he would make a motion to close the school seems out of place. He doesn't seem to be a Cheeseman ally and normally has not supported most of the superintendent's wilder, leftist efforts. Maybe Cheeseman threatened to take teachers away from Bath like he attempted to do earlier this year unsuccessfully if Shreve didn't "get in line".
Commented: Saturday, April 12th, 2025 @ 11:40 am
By: John Heermann
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I was shocked to hear that some conservatives knuckled under to Cheeseman on this. Consolidating schools is a very liberal agenda. I have heard that Cheeseman was threatening to do things adverse to schools in their districts if they did not go along. Hopefully, they will have the backbone to stand up to Cheeseman on the final vote.
Commented: Saturday, April 12th, 2025 @ 7:16 am
By: Conservative Voter
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I have been hearing all sorts of stories about how all this has come about, and I figured there was some exaggeration going on, but I checked the video, and I checked the minutes. Sure enough, Don Shreve made the motion, and Daniel Hudson seconded the motion to tentatively close Snowden School.
Commented: Saturday, April 12th, 2025 @ 6:53 am
By: Van Zant
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Middle Ages as in Western
Commented: Thursday, April 10th, 2025 @ 8:22 am
By: Sanderuit
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This is just one more truly dumb move by the Beaufort County School Board.
Why is it the responsibility of the Conservative members of the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners to know more about acting in a more prudent manner than those elected to do so? Maybe, it is because we fund the Beaufort County Schools, and all of their bad decisions. So, should the question truly become: Why is the 4 member majority - the Center-Left Coalition - so incurious in performing any oversight when it comes to the education of their Constituents' children?
Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 1:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For decades there has been a clear cut distinction within education between conservatives who favor community schools and liberals who favor large consolidated schools. The large consolidated schools tend to involve less community involvement and less parent involvement, and the liberal education establishment wants to cut out as much of both as they can.
Liberal superintendent Cheeseman is clearly on a resume building mission for his next job to try to move to a larger and better paying district and apparently seeing school consolidation as something he wants on his resume. Thus the ungainly consolidation plan on elementary schools in Washington, and now the closure of Snowden, forcing its student population to a school thirty miles away. We need more school board members who will put the education of Beaufort County students ahead of Cheeseman's resume building. Right now a majority of the board seems to ask "how high?" when Cheeseman says "jump".
Commented: Monday, April 7th, 2025 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Steed
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What have we learned in all of this?
1) Republican majorities don't mean diddly squat. We hear lots of talk, but when it comes right down to it, there's just a bunch of self-serving actions. Republicans. Democrats. Just different wings on the same bird. 2) Community schools are an endangered species. I still know people mad about John A. Wilkinson. Now Snowden is in the crosshairs.
Commented: Monday, April 7th, 2025 @ 6:06 pm
By: Van Zant
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