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I never did understand that gender assigned at birth phrase. So, these whackos think that woke parents actually have the right to assign the gender of their newborns, no matter their biological sex at birth, and with no regard as to what their children will eventually think about it as they grow up. This is sick as well as evil.

Commented: Friday, March 21st, 2025 @ 8:34 am By: Van Zant

There have only been 81 nationwide injunctions by federal courts in American history. Now, every day another political hack Obama or Biden judge throsw another politically motivted one at Trump. Yes this is a judicial coup and it must be stpoped or deomcracy dies.

Commented: Thursday, March 20th, 2025 @ 4:01 pm By: Rino Hunter

Those paying attention have noticed that the public is held at arms-length from this board. I get the feeling that community members are only welcome as cheerleaders or such.

Commented: Thursday, March 20th, 2025 @ 2:52 pm By: Van Zant

It would be nice to see some charges of harboring illegal aliens result from this investigation. All of the pro-migrant NGO's including those run by social gospel churches and the CAtholic church need to be investigated as well.

Commented: Thursday, March 20th, 2025 @ 7:48 am By: borderhawk

More total stupidity by Democrats. Do they have the self awareness to know that they are that out of touch with reality, common sense, and the American people?

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 8:51 pm By: Rino Hunter

Daniel Hudson cmapaigned as a conservative. Has he fallen in with the Undocumented Democrats led by Cheeseman? I hope not. He seemed smarter than that.

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 3:35 pm By: Conservative Voter

You can be sure that they are teaching something in those classes. The question is what?

The fundamental issue is who has the final say in what curriculum is chosen. The education establishment says it is DPI. State law says it is the local school board and that DPI has no control and no veto over what the local school board decides. Superintendants always side with the education esbablishment becuase their career path is to move on to a bigger and better paying district and they think anything conservative in their record will be harmful to such career moves.

The legal staff at the NC General Assembly told Rep. Kidwell that the local school board had the absolute power to choose whatever curriculum they judged best and that DPI had no control and no veto over their decision. That legal opinion came about when Kidwell introduced a bill to allow the Beaufort County Board of Education to use the Hillsdale curriculum if they chose. The legislature's legal staff advised Kidwell that his bill was unnecessary because local school boards already had that authority under existing state law.

The state education establishment tries to cobble together some other statutes to claim otherwise, but their argument is a real stretch and totally bogus. The lawyers at the General Assembly are correct on this issue.

DPI is like any bureaucracy, always grasping for power. Local school boards need a local attorney who will stand up for their interests and their rights. Unfortunately, in Beaufort County, the superintendant conned the School Board into hiring an out of town school board attorney who has his tenacles deep into the state education establsihment, and who thus will sing their tune instead of looking our for local perogatives. This is the same out of town attorney who was MIA when the superintendant badly bungled so much of the process on his new elementary school. He is good for looking out for the positions of the sate education establishment, but less so for the interests of the local school board.

DPI is controlled totally by the left. Their bureaucracy has always tilted that way. The state school board, appointed mostly by Cooper is hard left, and the new superintendant of DPI has been a kingpin in the far left political / ideological network in N, leading one of their major funding organizations for the leftC. Their positions on anything should always be taken with a grain of salt.

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 1:53 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I spoke out against the SAVVAS curriculum at the School Board meeting on February 21, 2023. As mentioned in the article, we still don’t have an approved social studies curriculum in Beaufort County after more than two years! Teachers are creating their own lesson plans, utilizing information they find on the internet and other sources but without an approved curriculum to use as a benchmark. The decision was made to table the adoption of the SAVVAS curriculum for a later date. This most likely happened because the Superintendent got egg on his face for trying to push through a “woke” curriculum with a weak school board and received more public outcry than was anticipated. They probably hoped to push it through at a later date when the public wasn’t watching but eventually decided to give up completely in order to pursue finding a science curriculum.

This whole fiasco is just another example of why DOGE is needed in the public education bureaucracy. Administrative staff (bureaucracy) at the county, state and federal levels has grown by 88% since 2000. In the same period, student and teacher levels have only grown by 8%. That means bureaucracy in education has grown at an excessively higher rate than the folks doing the actual educating in classrooms and students being taught. We have also seen a continuing decline in school and student performance scores during the same time. That tells me that the bureaucracy is broken and needs much necessary reform. The issues with our county curriculum selection process are a perfect case study as the article explains. If Dr. Parker and the BCS staff are incapable of choosing more than one curriculum at a time, what are they actually doing? The bureaucrats at the county level and the superintendent are incompetent at best and, at worst, don’t actually care about the education our children receive. It is way past time for them to do their job. It is also way past time for the weak, incompetent School Board to hold the superintendent accountable!

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 12:47 pm By: Dave Hudson

History and Civics: These two subjects are some of the most important information to prepare young minds, who will need to shield their conscious awareness from the indoctrination of PHDs from the collegiate power of higher learning, many of which are failing in their mandate to educate.

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 11:17 am By: Stan Deatherage

This is what he British were doing to us at the time of the revolution. The King's tax collector came every year and took what he wanted. Now we get to vote for the tax frauds.

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 7:56 am By: Hood Richardson

It seems to me that if the BCS upper staff can't get their rainbow flag decorated social studies curriculum they will just take their marbles and quit. The entrenched board members so opposed to looking at a Hillsdale History and Civics curriculum seem to be dedicated to following the dictates of outside the county governmental departments rather than fulfilling their own board responsibilities. I noticed on the tape that they are willing to pay top dollar for the canned corporate curriculums while complaining about the cost of something like Hillsdale, which is the best deal I know of. That ridiculous argument underlines how devoted some of the board members are to the status quo. The status quo is nothing to brag about unless the goal is promoting anti-American, heavily Marxist globalist attitudes.

Commented: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 @ 6:43 am By: Van Zant

Trump's goal is to reduce energy costs, which Biden sent through the roof. That means more conventional energy, not intermittant and high priced wind and solar. Saving the Atlantic Right Whale is just one of the fringe benefits. Wind turbines are also a threat to other marine life life seabirds, crabs, dolphins, etc. Wind turbines alos put the commercial fishermen out of business. Oil drilling does not harm the environment unless there happens to be a very rare spill. Whales have been washing up on beaches repeatedly since they started building wind turbines.

One of the problems for marine life is the power cables. University studies in the UK have found, for example, that migrating crabs get to a power cable and just stop there and don't move, eventually dying. The blades of wind turbines also crew up seabirds. When a wind farm was built in the Irish Sea near the Isle of Man, the annual sea bird cunsus on the Isle of Man fell sharply. Wind turbines are a threat to wildlife and consumers should not be forcefed their overpriced electricity.

Commented: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 @ 9:19 pm By: Rino Hunter