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Pitty poor misunderstood Don Shreve. He is again seeking our approval for his sins. Nothing more clearly states how unqualified Don Shreve is than this article.
It is not about you Donald Shreve. You failed your most important test. Brains?

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 8:35 am By: Hood Richardson

If Shreve cannot figure out that Cheeseman is a liberal, he might want to read Cheeseman's dissertation, when he got his degree during his tenure in Beaufort County and probably paid for by Beaufort County taxpayers. In it, Cheeseman promotes the Marxist (and also racist) concept of DEI. President Trump is trying to eliminate DEI. Where do you stand, Donald Shreve?

Then there is the sort of key people he brings in. Take his out of town school board attorney, who is chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party, and who Cheeseman convinced the board to hire. The Democrat Party is generally pretty liberal but their Durham County branch has always been one of the most hard left in the state.

Like many in the education industry, Cheeseman tries to hide his politics by registering as an Unaffiliated, but it is not hard to see what he is if you look.

One litmus test on education issues that has separated the wheat from the chaff for decades has been the consolidation versus neighborhood / community schools debate. Consolidation has always been the liberal position, and neighborhood / community schools the conservative position. Cheeseman is pushing the liberal / left position and has his bootlickers on the school board bowing down to him on it.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 8:18 am By: Rino Hunter

A good start for the Beaufort County School Board to learn how to act as a real governing board is to first change:

1. Their incredibly awkward seating arrangements centered around ineffectual governing and poor communication of purpose to the People, for the People;

2. Abide by the Sunshine Law, and begin the conducting of the People's business in front of the People, in Open Session. There are only three justifications to meet in Closed Session - a. to discuss personnel issues about problem personnel, not policy; b. negotiate singular contracts, sensitive money issues, and once determined and ratified, report to the People openly; c. broad legal matters of attorney /client privilege where discussions are sensitive and must be protected until outcome established. Then these matters become the People's business;

3. Members of the School Board must make Open Session voting a priority; establish a continuity of governing by Open Session voting on initiatives to in-act better performance in managing the People's money by far better policy, and that means hammering out policy in public by the privilege of motions in Open Session.

These few, beginning suggestions, in my own thoughts and words, are just a start for a dysfunctional governing body to begin the process of becoming a real governing board.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 7:55 am By: Stan Deatherage

LOL. "Independent" as in seven Cheeseman cheerleaders. Looks to me like we've got a school board made up of seven deckchairs and two independent thinkers.

Are we supposed to believe that Snowden School was supported by the BCS Central Office? Snowden didn't even have a custodian for much of the year. He was transferred to Chocowinity.

Hum. How to proceed. Gag on this campaign year tripe or sign the petition to Save Snowden. That's a pretty easy choice for a southside resident.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 6:47 am By: Van Zant

Van Zant: It does appear that a Cheeseman Coalition is forming on this very "independent" School Board.

One more thing, I requested back in February, 2025, from Superintendent Cheeseman, the Title Search and notes on the infamous 4 acres that cost the taxpayers of Beaufort County an additional $500,000.00 for the additional land cost to build a $52,000,000.00 projected for an unneeded school on land thought owned, but was not, and discovered as such, irrespective of the fact that original title search needed for the planning of that school, now being built at the lowest point of the lot, was obviously never requested; never performed when absolutely needed.

As Beaufort County's elected taxing authority, and the taxpayers most ardent representative, I have yet to receive that promised Title Search, lo these many months later from Superintendent Cheeseman, as promised.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 11:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage

One more thing Don: I know Aurora Mayor Clif Williams well, and have for many decades.

To my knowledge, Clif has never asked for S.W. Snowden School to be closed, and has spoken before me, as one of the Beaufort County Commissioners for 7 terms, and has on many occasions, only asked for the commissioners to help keep Snowden open with additional funding, which the 3 Republicans on the board of commissioners voted to do, but failed due to the Center-Left /Left Coalition (2 Democratic Socialists and 2 RINOs) thus being in league with the incredibly uninspired designs of the Beaufort County School Board.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Don Shreve: The closing of S.W. Snowden School will not only be an issue in the 2026 School Boards elections, it will also be one of the most important issues in the County Commissioner race, especially since the three Republicans serving the citizens of Beaufort County worked diligently to save Snowden, when the School Board would not, while the Center-Left /Left Coalition (those who swap votes to share power on the Beaufort County Commission} stood in the way of these Real Republicans' constituents being better served by their representatives.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 8:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage

As Trump says, we need to stop putting up stupid people as candidates. We certainly do not need a lobbyist to pick up the same ball. Where can we find a good businessman like Trump?

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 5:46 pm By: Buzz Cayton

Great news. Tillis has been misrepresenting our state for way too long. It is good to finally see him on the way out.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 5:28 pm By: Bubba

School Choice will be a big piece of that Pie of Better Answers.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 4:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Our shrimpers have taken an important stand and set a great example for all of us trying to save our heritage. Thay said they would not take it anymore, and we all need to do that on EVERY important issue.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 11:53 am By: Van Zant

For many (most?) Democrats in the judicial system, it is all about the politics of the moment, not foundational principles, and that badly undermines the Rule of Law, and indeed democracy itself.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 10:11 am By: Conservative Voter