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Amendus: This deportation period is a sticky wicket, since these Illegals were aided and abetted by the Traitorous Administration of Treasonous President Biden.

I am not sure that the American People would agree to give all Illegals your idea of Due Process; however, if the trade off was the prosecution of the entirety of those responsible within the Idiot President's Administration for tens of millions of Illegals allowed to enter this Constitutional Republic, aided and abetted by these Non Patriot Bastards, the American People may consider differently.

I would agree with that tradeoff. That would set a fine example for the Non Patriot Left to understand going forward what will come of their extra illegal, and inarguable non patriot actions.

Commented: Thursday, April 24th, 2025 @ 9:58 am By: Stan Deatherage

I wonder why the video of the April 15th School Board meeting is still not up. If it happens to be posted before next week, people better check the audio. Remember the meeting when the Aurora pastors spoke and the audio was erased for their part of it?

Commented: Thursday, April 24th, 2025 @ 8:39 am By: Van Zant

Nohate: American Citizens have due process; Illegals, understandably, have less in many instances, such as being deported under a government of patriots; much unlike the traitorous non patriot government of the former Idiot President, who, acting as the Traitor-in-Chief, in the Battle of the Border(s) Invasion of 2021 to 2025.

Commented: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 @ 5:41 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Washingtonian, Beaufort County used to have two systems, the Washington City System and the County system, each with its own board and superintendent. However, merger and consolidations are watchwords of the liberal education establishment and that fell by the wayside. I would agree that was a better system.

The reason the liberal education establishment wants school consolidation is to decrease parental involvement. Yes, they like to give lip service to parents being involved but that is just a smokescreen. Another thing they do to push parents away is eliminating textbooks. No longer can parents flip through their child's textbook at home to see what he is being taught. When students were doing their work at home during Covid, that gave parents an opportunity to see what leftwing crap was being drilled into their kids and there arose a nationwide movement to oust the "business as usual" types from school boards.

Stan, I fear you are right on this school boondoggle just getting worse and more expensive. That fiasco over the 4 acres is just the beginning. Cheeseman has hired a construction firm with a long history of cost overruns on building schools, and their oversight group is not up to the task. Cheeseman has already demonstrated his dire lack of management competence. T.W. Allen is a joke, nothing but a front man for Cheeseman who does what he is told. Then you have Frankie Waters, who as chairman of the old Tri-County Telephone ran it into bankruptcy. We have the Three Stooges watching over a company that is almost certain to try to sock us with extra costs.

One suggestion is that when they come back with demands for more money, make a condition of giving any more money that the Three Stooges all resign from their positions, and that means their underlying offices. If they let themselves get suckered, and they will, then we do not need them in ANY public office, appointed or elected.

Commented: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 @ 10:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

THese freeloading border jumpers evaded due process like proper vetting when they illegally came over the border, so they deserve NONE when they are kicked out. True immigrants have to go through extensive due process to come in including thorough health checks and background checks. The Biden open borders regime let these line jumpers in with no checks. Heck many of them were covered with criminal gang tattoos and they just let them in. That is why Tren de Aragua was not in the US before Biden but is now in all 50 states.

This demand for "due process" is a Cloward-Pivot scheme to overwhelm the system so that most of the Biden illegals cannot be reached to kick them out. They avoided due process in letting them in and now want full due process on the way out. That is just bullshit and hypocrisy.

Take this Garcia dude. The left want's "due process" but two judges have already ruled that he is an illegal alien who is subject to deportation AND that he is a member of the MS-13 criminal gang. He has already had lots of due process but the far left just keeps demanding more.

Foreign invaders do not deserve the same rights as American citizens, nor even the same rights of true immigrants who obey who immigration laws.

And "nohate" clearly DOES hate, and what he hates is America.

Commented: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 @ 8:45 am By: borderhawk

SD and fellow commentators: I'd like to add, for the record, that Ol' Frankie's lost his damn marbles and also, again, proven this whole s***show to be completely scripted towards an outcome that benefits "Them The Few".

So now, you've got TWO monolith mega-schools they'll try to build and then implode when the money runs out....paid for by We The People's tax dollars for "security and safety" reasons🤯!? At this point, anyone backing this is either in on the deal or drinking the Kool Aid Unca Frankie and Cheeseman are mixin' up.

This whole thing is a pyramid scheme that's exploiting parents, children and all people of Beaufort County. It and everyone involved should be audited....end of story.

Commented: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 6:51 pm By: John Valley

No, no, no. The School Board does believe that the Superintendent and staff work for them. They believe that Cheeseman and his staff do all the working and thinking... so that they dont have to do any working or thinking.

Basically, I was told this years ago when a school board member said: "Look Washingtonian, we Board members have jobs, and family, and a life, and that's why we have a staff to do this for us."

Sooo yeah, they think the employees do work for them. LOL
Easy life being on the School Board.

Commented: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 9:14 pm By: Washingtonian

What I am hearing is that one or more on the central office staff have been threatening school board members that if they do not support Cheeseman on closing Snowden, schools in their districts will have popular teachers removed. If that is happening, then the paid staff is blackmailing the school board. Anyone doing that should be fired for cause and school board members need to go public with it.

Commented: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 8:23 pm By: Rino Hunter

Cheeseman has selected a construction firm with an extensive history of cost overruns in school construction. He will be long gone to his next job before those chickens come home to roost. Indeed there is an FBI investigation ongoing in Beaufort County, South Carolina over this same firm's cost overruns/

Maybe that is why he wants to close Snowden. He is freeing up some money to cover those expected cost overruns on his pet project.

This school is also being built on the lowest part of the lot. That will prove real smart when hurricanes come along and it floods, won't it?

And Gary, do you condone Cheeseman's gross mismanagement over that missing 4 acres? How about his half million dollar solution to his blunder when it could have been done with a property swap without costing that half million dollars to the taxpayers.

Cheeseman's pet project will prove a total boondoggle from start to finish. That grant from the lottery fund could have been used MUCh more effectively for our schools.

Commented: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 9:43 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Gary, it is not at all conservative to approach school needs with the tunnel vision employed by Cheeseman and knuckled under to by a weak school board. There should have been a thorough and public analysis of school needs and solutions and opportunities for public input. There was not. There was only Cheeseman's plan, designed primarily to build his resume for his next job. Both fact finding and public input were shoved to the side.

A plan based on two neigborhood sized K-5 schools, using Tayloe, an existing school for one of them, would have freed funds for other schools around the county. Chocowinity was overlooked in the last major bond issue for schools, and Cheeseman has just overlooked them again.

The process stunk to high heaven in this school project, which was driven by one bureaucrat. The result of that flawed process is suboptimal for our school system.

Gary, why have you become such a Cheeseman cheerleader? And why have you jumped on the liberal school consolidation bandwagon?

Commented: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 7:47 am By: John Steed

And for the record ... all my posting on this subject is in regard to the new school not Snowden.

Commented: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 1:09 am By: Gary Ceres