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Stan says he likes school of choice. Well that is agreeable but you are talking segregation. Hood is discussing parents and drugs glad you brought drugs up Hood. As a tax paying (on time) citizen of Beaufort County I propose the Commissioners and School Board submit to random drug testing. We need to know that the people controlling our tax dollars are drug free and pay taxes on time.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 2:23 pm By: Smarter than Hood

Prendiegirl, you must have missed what was happening all over the country in school board elections. There has been a vast earthquake of turning out do-nothing board members for those pledged to take a meat ax to "woke". What is driving this is that with students at home during Covid, parents saw the crap that was in their curriculum and became angry. School boards even in major urban counties are being replaced with conservatives who want to end the "woke" garbage. It is even impacting other elections, like in Virginia, where it was a key factor in electing Republicans to all statewide offices.

Here in North Carolina, a poll by the Civitas Institute found that 71% of North Carolina parents were concerned about indoctrination of their children in the public schools. That says a lot about why voters are turning against "business as usual" school board members who just go along with whatever the education establishment puts forward.

I know that there is a little political cult that sees Hood Richardson hiding behind every bush, but Hood Derangement Syndrome (which is like Trump Derangement Syndrome) is not the explanation of voters turning to known conservatives in Beaufort County or any other school board elections.

Many conservatives, including myself and former State Representative Sandy Hardy helped encourage conservative candidates to run in the last school board election. All of those elected were strong personalities who stand on principle and are not led around by anyone. They research the issues themselves and make up their own minds.

I know that there is one of the school board members up next year who at least has a heart in the right place on school issues, but it takes more than that. It takes a backbone to stand up against the "woke" agenda. That aspect is still to be determined, as there will probably still be opportunities to show the presence or absence of such backbone. There are also two liberal Democrats on the board who will not deviate from woke and need to be replaced.

If you really want to credit the person most responsible for pushing for a better school board in Beaufort County, that would be former Belhaven Mayor Adam Oneal. Adam first got involved with education issues in helping parents fight some of the stupid Covid policies in the county schools, and went on to pick up on other concerns of parents.

We still have a school board that adopts common core math injected with "woke" for its math curriculum. The county schools curriculum direstor falsely told the board that the Bridges curriculum was not common core, and when people researched it and found out it was, he had to admit that it was. There is more work to be done. Parents, conservative school board members, and conservative legislators have been fighting common core math for years since it first showed up in our state.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 1:33 pm By: Steven P. Rader

And I have to say HR, being Christian doesn't make you moral, ethical or even drug free. It makes you a sinner seeking redemption. Pointing fingers at others because you think you are a "better" Christian is the first sign you really don't get the whole point of the religion.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 11:58 am By: Big Bob

Well if the police didn't murder her because she was black, then how can a comparison be made? BTW, that's not me saying that, it was a jury of his peers. In court. Where MAGA goes to die.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 11:53 am By: Big Bob

Smarter than Hood: I like the concept of Community Schools for a variety of reasons, not least of which will be that these community facilities should become a valuable resource now that School Choice is beginning to evolve as all worthy planned policies must.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 10:13 am By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob. Do you have a moral compass?

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 6:30 am By: Hood Richardson

All of these quack gender bender doctors who mutilate children should be sued until they are put out of business and broke.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 8:53 am By: Bubba

Ah, the parents that agree with you. Not a school board with a diversity of opinions that make room for the actual truth and the many different students they serve.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 9:17 am By: Big Bob

It happened at the College. Disciplinary actions were taken with the teacher. There is such a thing as privacy such as the HIPPA laws. The school board does not control the College. Try going to a meeting instead of getting your information from Hood Richardson and his cronies.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 9:31 am By: Prendiegirl

With the German establishment parties including the left of center Social Democrats, and globalist Macron in France apparently seeing the light on the need for deportations of illegal aliens, one wonders if the Biden Democrats will ever see the light?

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 8:40 am By: borderhawk

This murder of an innocent Jew should be at least as big of news as the death of George Floyd, which kicked off the Summer of George, which, in turn, played a part in the Second Great Migration, which now is still in its infancy.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 12:26 am By: Stan Deatherage

I agree. Just because a person posts on social media that they are going to kill so and so, bomb something, shoot up a school or kill their family does not give anyone the right to investigate and confiscate their guns. We have the right to say anything. And I say, more guns. Unless the police have a body they got nothing. Stand strong. As soon as we plant those folks up in Maine, this will all be forgotten.

Commented: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 10:25 pm By: Big Bob