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Commented on Oklahoma bans DEI in all state institutionsHmmmm, now you are just making stuff up. I'm out. I don't debate crazy.
Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 10:04 am
By: Big Bob
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Must be frustrating for you.
Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 10:06 am
By: Big Bob
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No "medical advice" in the post, only medical facts, some that many govenrments around the world, and Big Pharma, try to suppress.
Had my flu shot, too. It is not mRNA.
Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 9:02 am
By: John Steed
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Commented on Oklahoma bans DEI in all state institutionsWow, 1865 until now? Bigot Bob really is into that bottle of Old Crow. Even one of the prime left wing sources, Wikipedia (whose founder has denounced it as "badly biased to the left") says that Hun Crow started around the turn of the 19th to 20th century and ended in 1965.
Bigot Bob claims it is still going on today. Really? And he claims it started during Reconstruction, a time that many southern whites who fought for their independence were denied their civil rights and many southern legislatures had black majorities. Bigot Bob ought to learn his history a little better, but then, again, the far left is never bothered with facts because their little minds are already made up.
Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 7:02 am
By: Conservative Voter
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The Summer of George continues.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 11:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Had my flu and Covid shot. Anyone reading this post, never take medical advice from crap on the internet. Talk to your doctor
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 7:24 pm
By: Big Bob
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Commented on Oklahoma bans DEI in all state institutions1865 until now. 100 plus years. And yes, you still benefit from Jim Crow today. Proof? Being so nice and white, you can deny it ever really happened or 'wasn't so bad'.
Thank you for conceding my point on the religion.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 7:37 pm
By: Big Bob
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JS is correct that the best schools are small schools. JS is wrong about left wing education. Teaching white people fairytales to children will not educate them. No one should be so ashamed of our past as to deny it. Just do better.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 7:48 pm
By: Big Bob
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Firebrand:
Eighty-year-olds may have something to offer called wisdom. What have consolidated schools brought you? 65% of the children in Beaufort County are below the standard reading level and math levels. If the current goes off, they can't make change. Most cannot read a ruler. Many cannot read cursive. How about basic math like 8X9? Let's look at discipline. I know some teachers who have left the profession because of not getting the support they needed. Last year (2021) 8 of 13 Schools in Beaufort County were rated (D) (now 40) by the DPE. I talked to a man running for the school board in Belhaven who has two people on the PTO (Old PTA) committee. No Parent involvement. Another one of us old eighty-year-olds wanted to visit a class his grandchild was attending. He found that was not allowed. There was a time when we had "Grade Mothers" who came and helped students who were falling behind. There are tons of money for underserved children, but I never hear this mentioned at the local school board meeting. We are facing the largest drop-out rate of students in history and building bigger schools that the Government control is not the answer. Ride through some small towns and communities that got smaller when the schools were closed for consolidation. If bigger and consolidation works, show me. Buzz Cayton
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 7:30 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Sure, I have read books, investigated issues that needed fixing, even built them the best functioning website Beaufort County Schools has ever had the distinct pleasure of employing; done quite a plenty to insure that public schools survive and thrive, even though I am but one representative voice out of seven.
But "Firebrand," how does my long involvement with Beaufort County Schools effect my decision making processes as the largest taxing authority in Beaufort County, a position presented as to represent the most important governing processes effecting my constituents, who make up a large contingency of those people that pay for all that is government here in this county? I take that job very seriously, more than most as has long been my struggle to encounter, and I will continue to do so as long as my constituents wish it of me to act as their representative voice.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 6:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I believe the children deserve every opportunity. The teachers and principles are working hard to bring up the scores. Have you ever gone to visit the schools?
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 4:18 pm
By: Firebrand
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Yes, and it will be incontrovertible if presented accurately.
The 4 schools have been built, the testing trends are not measurably better, and may be in a downward trend if compared on a "apples to apples" basis. Spending as much money as could be possible on projects poorly considered is NOT going to improve learning in Beaufort County, or North Carolina as a whole of school governing.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 4:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stan, Do you have any local data that proves new schools wouldn’t be an incentive to learn?
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 3:48 pm
By: Firebrand
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As long as technology can be brought into the classroom, I do not see how a "new" school is necessarily an improvement. There is a school still in use just down the street from my favorite hotel in Vienna that dates from the reign of Emporer Franz Josef I, prior to World War I. In Dubrovnik, Croatia, I have seen a school still in use that dated back from before the Napoleonic Wars. I strongly suspect that the teaching in those buildings was likely superior to most American public schools.
I, myself, have attended classes at the university level in buildings built in the early 20th century, and that did not hurt the quality of the education I received.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Firebrand: Did you ever find that local data supporting "Having new schools gives children incentive to learn?"
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 3:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well I’m sure the little ones won’t be dropped off without help finding their way. I personally went to a school from first through eighth grade. It was nice having an older sibling nearby and teachers that knew not only the children but their families. This is not a liberal view but my opinion.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 3:11 pm
By: Firebrand
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Well, I guess I'll scratch Paris off of the list of places I want to visit.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 2:22 pm
By: Bubba
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Large schools to warehouse children is a leftwing concept in education. Conservatives have always pushed for neighborhood schools, which are less intimidating to young children and make it easier for parents to participate.
In Beaufort County, we have a leftwing superintendant who is resume building for his next advancement to a bigger system, and that is the only reason we have this monster school project. It is not good for either education or the taxpayer, but it looks good on his resume, and he has too many little puppets on the school board who give him everything he wants.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 1:42 pm
By: John Steed
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Denial is not a river in Egypt, Little Bobbie.
One item above is a leaked government database, that even the government does not deny is accurate, but Little Bobbie who knows nothing except that it goes against his pathetic little leftwing narrative tries to claim it is not true. The other item is a medical study by medical researchers with advanced medical degrees, something Little Bobbie lacks. Again the fool tries to say that is not true, shooting from the hip with no actual knowledge of the subject or the study. It goes against his political beliefs so he refuses to accept it. You are pathetic, Little Bobbie.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 1:37 pm
By: John Steed
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Commented on Oklahoma bans DEI in all state institutionsBigot Bob uses Common Core math. Even using a leftwing source like Wikipedia, Jim Crow started around the turn of the century and ended in the early-mid 1960s. That is a little over a half century, NOT 100+ years as Bobbie contends. All of those impacted during their working lives are now well past retirement age. It has now been almost the same amount of time since it ended as while it existed. How long does Bigot Bob want the white man to be the whipping boy for the "woke" far left?
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 1:18 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Oklahoma bans DEI in all state institutionsI think the religion you participate in requires repentance for wrongs. I know the one I take part in would say that. Even if it didn’t, sometimes you should do the right thing just because.
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 1:06 pm
By: Big Bob
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Firebrand: You said, "Having new schools gives children incentive to learn."
We have built many schools (4) in Beaufort County over the last 25 years, and renovated all others, which begs me to ask: Do you have any local data to support your bold statement of this essential assessment of need?
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 12:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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May I remind you it is the 21 st century. Why are we getting comments about today’s schools from 80 year olds. Having new schools gives children incentive to learn. Also when was the last time any of you went to visit the schools or volunteered?
Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 10:33 am
By: Firebrand
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