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Voting for school board this year is a challenge for conservatives. South of the river, it is fine, Charles Hickman is a solid conservative, and Terry Williams is a swing voter. North of the river is a different story, where liberals captured both GOP nominations.

In the 6th district, there is Monica Davis, a liberal Republican facing a liberal Democrat. Somr conservatives may say that at least Davis wears the GOP brand, and vote for her in spite of her liberalism. Some conservatives may see the Democrat as the lesser of the evils as she at least is not part of that Carolyn Walker clique. Some may look at both as just very unappealing, and not vote in the race. In the 8th district only Cornelius is on the ballot, so she is going to win. To protest, conservative can just not vote in that race, but they can also write in, perhaps for the previous conservaitve Donald Shreve.

Commented: Sunday, October 11th, 2026 @ 7:54 pm By: Conservative Voter

Both Carolyn Walker and her husband Randy were actively opposing conservative Republican School Board candidates in the last primary. Their fingerprints are all over the progression of the School Board becoming more and more liberal. Their work resulted in liberals winning two of the three seats they targeted. Pretend Republicans Carolyn and Randy are the Democrat Party's best weapons in Beaufort County.

On primary election night both Walkers were at the Board of Elections crowing about their wins and badmouthing the conservatives that lost as well as the conservatives that won. Part of their public display was a phone call they were carrying on with the former School Superintendent while at the Election Board.

Commented: Sunday, October 11th, 2026 @ 8:00 am By: Van Zant

There seems to be a struggle in Beaufort County over school board seats between teachers on one side and parents on the other. On election day at my polling place, I found 4 or 5 teachers playing hookey from their jobs campaigning for ex-teacher Monica Davis. I am told that similar groups of teachers were present in other polling places in that district. They were all working to try to replace the most vocal supporter of parents right, Steven Rader, with a teacher.

One wonders if they told school administrators that the reason they were abandoning their classrooms that day was to play politics against a sitting member of the school board? Or did they give false reasons. If the former it raises questions about the school administration. If the latter, it raises the question of whether any action has been taken over false reasons for a day off.

Regardless, the 6th district primary was a battle between teachers and parents. Parents lost. The winner has been a longtime Democrat.

Commented: Friday, October 9th, 2026 @ 6:56 pm By: The Shadow

Washington NC could be the bedroom community for Greenville NC if we had a better School system. That will happen if we can elect people on our School Board that know something about MANAGEMENT. The last report that I heard was that one half of our schools are half empty. We just built a mega school for one thousand students K through third grade at the busiest intersection in town. It should have been two schools strategically located. 30 percent of our students in Beaufort County are at standard reading level. We had to fight hard to get rid of CRT because our teachers had been indoctrinated and the school board was telling the public that the state set the curriculum. We finally exposed that lie. The School Board sets the curriculum. The State has some requirements and end of grade testing. Now the State Board of Education has lowered the letter grade, so that "D" is now 40. "Hey Dad, I passed. I made a D." We need MANAGERS on or School Board.

Commented: Friday, October 9th, 2026 @ 12:54 pm By: Buzz Cayton