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Steve funny how you say cursive was not taught and now it is? So now you are on the board and know the truth and not listening to Hood you believe it!! Mmmmm The funny is a previous comment you said cursive was not taught but started back teaching. That is accusing teachers of not teaching standards I hope you got proof because we are licensed to teach the standards. If not you are now doing the Hood thing talking before you think

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 7:09 pm By: Bath parent

County voter, you are correct that teaching cursive writing is required, as is teaching the multiplication tables. This was mandated by the state legislature in statute, rather than from DPI. School districts are required to make certifications to the legislature annually.

Given the polling of college freshmen who say they cannot read and write cursive, I wonder if some districts may just go through the motions on cursive, or perhaps not teach it at all. In our state, beyond that certification, there is no further process to determine if cursive is actually being taught.

I was pleased with our own teachers that when I commented on the cards with cursive letters, they tended to be spontaneous in expressing the importance of teaching cursive. I believe our own teachers are genuinely committed to doing so.

One aspect, though, is that when one learns something but does not use it, their skills tend to get rusty. I would like to see us develop some methodologies that would promote students using cursive to a sufficient extent throughout their school years to maintain their skills.

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 6:51 pm By: Steven P. Rader

So Stan, who is the one that advises the Mayor, that Govt should be cancelled due to weather? Was it the last decision made by the outgoing City Manager?
Inquiring Minds want to know!

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 4:17 pm By: Washingtonian

My point is made when the statements are made that we are back to teaching it again because we did not teach it for a while.

Bath parent, you must be in the education system or you would not be one of the cheer leaders for Cheeseman at the school board meetings. Then, tell me what part of the un-education do you contribute?

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 3:22 pm By: Hood Richardson

I.Q. levels are dropping precipitously, which, for the most part are based on logic.

I took an I.Q. test about two weeks ago just to see how much I might have slipped at 3 score and ten, a test which nearly turned my brain into mush. While I experienced this arduous task, with all those secret doors one must discover to find the answers, I wondered just how well today's students are doing on these same type of tests.

My conclusion, once I discovered my percentile score: Not too good. No 70 year old man, regardless of how highly active as I am, should score that much higher than so many, so much younger, with their highly active nimble brains.

Our education industry is in dire need of a revamping by the natural forces of competition.

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 11:15 am By: Stan Deatherage

Glad to hear from our Bath Parent that all kids in Beaufort County are learning Cursive. Wonder if we could get some help for the 65% of our students who are not at Math and reading Level? How are we doing on multiplication tables? I bet they know a lot about DEI. A little help with real American History would be good too.

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 10:58 am By: Buzz Cayton

Electric rates are rising from RINOs, too like Thom Tillis and Phil Berger. Berger gave us NC's Green New Deal, and Tillis has also always been in the hip pocket of the climate industrial complex, resisting Trump's effort to rein in expensive and unreliable "green energy". Tillis owns investments in "green energy" and was looking out for himself instead of his constituents. Berger is an all-round whore for all sorts of special interests and the climate industrial complex is just one of those.

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 10:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wow Hood you can really have a conversation with people. Funny it looks like you are desperate to spin a narrative that is untrue. Even your Steve Rader has said he was happy to see cursive writing taught he was lied to. He said this at a recent PTO meeting he attended. I guess you will have to write an article about him nest as not taking your orders!!

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 9:27 am By: Bath Parent

From what I am seeing by their actions democrats are about destroying this country and the republic as quick as they can. Sadly the indoctrination centers aid this by teaching that socialism and communism are wonderful ways of life so when they children grow up they vote for socialism and communism. Sad days we are living in.

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 6:51 am By: Countrygirl1411

How come this Republican majority county commission always elects a Repub that was a Democrat before he ran for office as Chairman, paired with a Democrat as Vice Chair? With this Republican majority, has a Republican EVER been allowed in a leadership position. This is OK with the local Republican Party?

This is simply one-party rule that is opposed to any Republican aligned with the Republican Party platform. If it meets the definition of fraud, perhaps it is.

Commented: Monday, December 8th, 2025 @ 7:57 pm By: Van Zant

Well Hood let’s discuss your inaccurate article again. This must be your aging mind or lack of knowledge. Cursive writing is taught my kids learned it well. I was sitting in the meeting you referenced behind you and had the position wrong dean of students. From what I saw you were asleep. As for CRT there is a policy on not teaching CRT in our schools. If you personally witness this being taught you should report the teacher to your board member. You would have to go a school that have not been inside one in 20 years as stated earlier this year in a meeting. So as you can see I used an alias name as all of your buddies Ray, Adam, Steve, Charles

Commented: Monday, December 8th, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By: Bath parent

Van Zant: You are right, Charles Hickman, and now Steve Rader have been excellent editions to the school board.

Both of these of these outstanding elected leaders would make constructive and county commissioners, as I am always searching for a way to supplant both the Democratic Socialists and the RINO in my sphere of government.

But first, we need a far better educated public; that is our Republic's top priority.

Commented: Monday, December 8th, 2025 @ 2:12 pm By: Stan Deatherage