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Can anyone provide a specific example of something currently being taught in a BCS that is inappropriate for children?

Commented: Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 @ 3:44 pm By: big Bob

Bob, in any school system, you find some teachers who push an ideology in the classroom. Fortunately most teachers are more objective than that. The real problem comes from the textbook companies, which today are curriculum companies, delivering a digital product as much as one in printed textbooks, together with appointed state school boards that have a heavy ideological tilt. That has been problem in North Carolina due to the very left wing state school board appointees by Roy Cooper.

The current Social Studies curriculum in our state is very woke, and was strongly resisted by the two Republicans on the state school board for that reason. Many teachers just surrender to "state standards" even if they are not woke themselves. Under NC education law, local school boards have the authority to determine what meets state standards, and the state has no veto over them. Local school boards need to exercise their authority in avoiding a woke curriculum or at the very least telling both sides.

Some states have taken strong action on curriculum, Florida probably the strongest. However, even some Republican run states have been asleep at the switch on this. Alaska hired an outside consultant to develop their social studies curriculum, and ended up with one that does not even mention George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. In Iowa, the governor and legislative leadership hit the roof when they saw a state curriculum that promoted illegal immigration and the global warming ideology while downplaying our founding fathesr.

Currently, Beaufort County Schools has not had a social studies curriculum for quite a few years. Teachers are pulling together materials on their own. We need a good pro-America curriculum in this area.

Commented: Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 @ 2:03 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Question:
Can anyone provide a specific example of something currently being taught in a BCS that is inappropriate for children?

If we are going to trash our friends and neighbors who teach in the county, I for one would like to know the answer to my question. Voters would too.

Commented: Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 @ 11:38 am By: big Bob

Just an observation here on movies (the vast majority made by Liberals or Leftists) from Hollywood: In movies where there is a home invasion, more often than not, the inhabitant of the home almost always desperately reach for the Louisville Slugger to ward of the home invader(s); not a handgun, or in my case a defense /offence modified shotgun, fully loaded with 12 gauge double-ought buckshot.

Commented: Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 @ 9:25 am By: Stan Deatherage

The radical teachers unions are a big part of what is skewing our schools to the left, In North Carolina, that is the NCAE, the state affiliate of the NEA. Back when school administrations were doing a dues checkoff from the paychecks, a significant majority of NC teachers belonged to this union, including here in Beaufort County. Some quit paying when the dues checkoff ended, but it is still a substantial part of the roster of local teachers.

The danger is letting these NCAE teachers have control of our curriculum.

To make matters worse, we will have two retired NCAE teachers on the school board itself. The liberal leader on the school board, Carolyn Walker, is pushing building a liberal majority on our school board.

Commented: Monday, September 28th, 2026 @ 4:49 pm By: Conservative Voter

The truth as you see it.
Anyone, right or left, who claims a monopoly on the "truth" is a whack job. I make no claim to such a monopoly. I consider that sort of thinking dangerous. Voters should too.

Commented: Monday, September 28th, 2026 @ 3:26 pm By: big Bob

Only by discussing the uncomfortable historical truths will we become better. Anytime we hurt others for merely existing, we dehumanize outlives and allow the real history to repeat itself.

Commented: Monday, September 28th, 2026 @ 3:19 pm By: big Bob

One local parent I know had to take her daughter out of Beaufort County schools due to a politically biased teacher at the Early College High School. That teacher not only injected "wokeness" into her teaching but grading students who disagree with it down, and those who agreed with it up. We do NOT need teachers like that in our schools at all, and particularly not on committees reviewing the curriculu,.

Commented: Monday, September 28th, 2026 @ 1:44 pm By: Rino Hunter

BB says "Govern better" if you dont want socialism. Last I looked most of us have no power to "govern" at all. The oligarchs may be power-brokers, but there R power brokers of lessor known status as well. Who are they?
Well I wish I had kept a list of all those city managers, and police chiefs in eastern NC who have recently resigned or been fired. I believe there was even a city attorney who resigned blaming corruption in his town.
So what is broken in NC? What is the common denominator of all these sick cities? Perhaps it is the NC League of Municipalities who instruct all the cities on how to govern. Are they WOKE, or All Democrats, or socialist seeking to take all the power to themselves? Could be as simple as that.
Someone is telling city govt ppl, Not to ever admit wrong. Never admit they have the power to fix anything. Hide the truth, document NOTHING, be vague about laws, dont enforced those laws, while NCLM teaches cities "How to 'Work' the system."

Commented: Monday, September 28th, 2026 @ 10:00 am By: Washingtonian

Buzz: The public education industry is, in far too many instances, commanded by the Left, and Academia is controlled, to some extent, by far too many Non Patriots, who hate the Republic you love.

If we do not draw attention to the obvious, we will lose what our Founders originated, for what so many real Patriots fought for, and some died to preserve.

Commented: Sunday, September 27th, 2026 @ 7:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Our foreign adversaries are working closely with the Non Patriot Left to forever change the ideals of our Constitutional Republic.

As ENC NOW is a patriotic publication that traffics only in the truth, the least we can do is our part to present what appears to be truth, and what we indisputably know to be true.

Commented: Sunday, September 27th, 2026 @ 7:18 pm By: Stan Deatherage