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Many more voters have cracked the code on "woke" Baghdad Bob, and will vote it down every chance they get. Quite a few school board members all over the country, including three in Beaufort County, learned that last election. More will learn it next election. Parents do NOT want woke in their schools.

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 12:51 pm By: Conservative Voter

My guess is that when you coach up a kid to be a bigot, she/he runs into trouble in the public square.

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 10:35 am By: Big Bob

Fighting over pronouns. Now there is a good use of your time!

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 10:27 am By: Big Bob

Kids can be a lot smarter than you think, and the smarter ones can be very attuned to politics. There was a 13 year old in one school district who proved their school superintendant a liar when the kid recorded a teacher in the system, blatantly pushig CRT after the superintentandt claimed there was no CRT in their system. We have a 14 year old in our family who complained last year of two teachers in a school in a nearby county who were constantly pushing left wing politics in class. Of course, the complaints were just to family members, but many kids are perceptive to this politicized material in class.

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 7:18 am By: Steven P. Rader

The pronoun issues in the United State have already found their way into Beaufort County Health Department contracts.

We need to fight back.

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 6:41 am By: Hood Richardson

These are not 'illegal' aliens. They are migrants LEGALLY seeking asylum from countries you should visit to gain some perspective. Unless, of course, you're content being Neanderthals throwing tantrums.

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 9:31 pm By: Liarfighter

Oh yeah, a 14 year old came up with that. Bahahahaha. That's funny

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 11:22 pm By: Big Bob

Socialism only works till the money runs out. At the rate this administration is spending money, it won't take long. This is why Biden and company want ALL guns from law abiding citizens. When it crashes, they will blame Trump, and protect themselves against those of us who are still armed.

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 4:47 pm By: Steve Gaichin

The worst thing about Bridges is that it aligns with the failed Common Core math that has been dumbing down our students. Dr. Phillips told the School Board that Bridges was "not Common Core" but after citizens pointed out that Bridges own website boasted how Bridges aligned with Common Core, Phillips had to walk that back. Now the excuse was that teachers could just delete the Common Core aspects, but how realistic is that when the whole Bridges curricum is designed to be aligned to Common Core?

Our elected school board members need to stop funcionting as rubber stamps for the superintendant and start engaging on these issues to represent the parents and taxpayers who elected them.

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 3:53 pm By: John Steed

The real history, or the white history? When you advocate the Hillsdale curriculum you are are not advocating for the real history. No need for us to argue the point. Most know what Hillsdale represents. Hillsdale isn't inherently bad, but leaving out other perspectives is disingenuous. Columbus didn't discover America and no public school should teach from any one perspective.

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 9:27 am By: Big Bob

I like the British education law on this point. It requires that all sides be presented fairly when it comes to contested issues of political thought. When some British schools started allowing the BLM agenda to be preached in their classrooms, including Critical Race Theory, Kemi Badenoch, the Minister for Equalities in Boris Johnson's cabinet, who is a black woman herself, made a stirring speech in the House of Commons warning them that they were breaking the law. Here is a clip of part of that speech: www.youtube.com

Also, when schools started showing Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth", they were taken to court over it, and the British High Court ruled that if that movie was shown to school children, the school had to give a disclaimer that it is a propaganda film and contains multiple false statements of fact.

That is the attitude schools here should take to political issues, but I have heard too many instance from parents and children shere they do the same things Kemi Badenoch was complaining of on a whole raft of politicized issues.

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 7:35 am By: Steven P. Rader

The EPA got really creative with the Clean Air Act to try to include CO2 which is not a pollutant. If the case brought by the fishermen now pending at the Supreme Court is decided the way most expect, I think that power grab is going to be rammed down their throat. That case should be decided in the next few months.

But the last time the EPA tried a power grab to impose these sort of restrictions on power plants, that power grab was itself shot down by the SCOTUS.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 9:17 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer