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Beaufort County should not impose wokeness on its students just to help Cheeseman's career. We need to get wokeness out of our schools, whatever it takes.

Commented: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 @ 5:10 pm By: Bubba

What will be interesting is to see if some of the nominal Republicans on the School Board vote for a curriculum consistent with the Trump position or whether they follow the superintendant into the Biden position of allowing DEI and CRT.

Commented: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 @ 11:17 am By: Rino Hunter

The real problem with DEI in Beaufort County is at the Community College, which has an out-in-the-opem DEI program and boasts about it. The commissioners need to zero that out in the budget. I have never heard of a DEI program at the Beaufort County Schools.

The problem at Beaufort County Schools is CRT in the curriculum, and that comes from a superintendant who wants to conform to what a far left NC Board of Education and NCDPI want to cram down their throats. The superintendant has brought in an out of town school board attorney who is from the belly of the beast, the liberal public school establishement, so he will back up the superintendant.

The state Board of Education has already inserted Critical Race Theory, a Marxist construct into their recommended social studies curriculum. Former State Treasurer Dale Folwell, and former Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, the only two conservatives on the state board, spoke out strongly against that but were outvoted by the liberals appointed by Cooper.

The issue is whether the local School Board has to follow what the State board recommends on curriculum. The lawyers at the General Assembly told Rep. Kidwell that the local board can adopt any curriculum they judge best and is not obligated to follow those state recommendations. The state DPI, backed by the liberal education establishment tries to greatly stretch a wild interpretation of the testing statutes to claim they can tell local boards what to do but they have no mechanism to enforce their claim to control of curriculum.

We have a superintendant who, like most of them, does not want to rock the boat with DPI because of the impact that might have on their own personal career, and he has brought in an out of town lawyer from the bowels of the state education establishment who will parrot DPI's position. The real question is whether a majority of the school board will call their bluff.

Commented: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 @ 8:59 am By: Steven P. Rader

"Planet Earth" seems to be Bolshevik Bob's euphemism for "the far left narrative". That movie trailer does point out where the real facist threat in America comes from, but his whole movie gives a lot more detail. I think it is still available on DVD.

Commented: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 @ 7:06 am By: Conservative Voter

Recently in public session, the 3 Republican county commissioners have been assured by the BCS Superintendent that the vestiges of DEI is not in the current curriculum.

Should we take him at his word?

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 10:26 pm By: Stan Deatherage

So nothing to see. Just a raising of the arm. Perfectly understandable. Do it myself all the time. I'm sure you do to. In fact I did it today at work. Perfectly normal. Got it.

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 9:43 pm By: Big Bob

Kindergarten children need to memorize traditional patriotic songs and the pledge of allegiance. They should have stories read to them about Betsy Ross, George Washington and other Colonial heroes who gave us our freedom documents. It’s important that they don’t get indoctrinated with Drag Queen story time.
After Kindergarten they should begin learning about those freedom documents that made America great until anti freedom politicians gained control of government and education. But ithat is just what has happened and it became possible because evil doers in government and education established an educational system that kept their future voters ignorant of government of, by and for the people.
A good foundation of learning to love freedom and a free country must begin in kindergarten when young minds and hearts absorb so much of what is taught whether good or evil..

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 9:06 pm By: Noel Cayton

USAID under Biden spent hundreds of millions of dollars, probably over a billion promoting political and ideological censorship in the US and abroad. It would not surprise me if some of that money has helped promote censorship in France and Germany.

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 7:14 pm By: Rino Hunter

Big Bob: They raised their arm, and some Leftist caught the arm in the video as it was moving, and once the proper angle of the arc is reached, they take a screenshot of it, or they get AI to draw it at that perfect angle. These are two of the ways leftists can achieve this clichéd image that the Non Patriot Left is so fond of.

What the Non Patriot Left should attempt to accomplish is to avoid using the words "Hitler," "Nazi" or "Fascist," since NO living Leftist is smart enough to know what these words actually mean.

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 6:41 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Stan- legit question. You are not fond of the fascist label applied to trump and MAGA. Fair enough.
Please wax poetic on the NAZI salute given at the end of speeches first by President Musk and now Steve Bannon at CPAC. Love to hear your thoughts on the subject.

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 2:48 pm By: Big Bob

Thanks HR. I have always maintained that Republican and MAGA are two different parties.
We agree.

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 2:37 pm By: Big Bob

Passing something like the Arizona bill in Raleigh would be great, but counties already have the authority to enact wind turbines ordinances. Beaufort County has a weak solar farm ordinance but no wind farm ordinance. We need one. We also need both wind and solar bond requirements to decommission wind and solar farms. Most of them are organized as LCC's in a manner than at the end of its useful life, there is no further assets to collect out of and the owners can just walk away from the mess they have created. We need performance bonds on decommissioning.

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 5:46 pm By: Steven P. Rader