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The polling last year by the Locke Foundation found that 71% of North Carolina parents are concerned about political indoctrination of their children in the public schools. It is the far left dogma such as CRT, DEI, and ESG that is being promoted to students by the education establishment. This is what parents want to keep their children away from. This is why all over the US, conservatives are winning school board races in droves.

The problem is the education establishment which is still very liberal, with the teachers unions being the most radical, but the education bureaucracy itself pretty far to the left. The career path of school superintendants, which is to periodically move up the ladder to higher paying and more prestigious larger systems, means that they typically want to have a record that fits the mold of the education establishment, and they have been a key point of resistance to parents.

A smart school superintendant could use the current climate to their advantage if they thought about it. A superintendant with a track record of pushing a pro-parent agenda in a smaller system, getting a more traditional non-political curriculum like we had a few decades ago and working to empower parents could have a golden ticket to better jobs in bigger systems where conservatives have obtained a majority. Those include some major big city systems like Miami and Jacksonville, FLorida and big suburban systems like the one just outside Charleston, SC. There are lots and lots of superintendants out there who toe the line of the liberal education establishment but very few who have a track record of standing up for what parents want. A smart superintendant would see this opportunity and begin their transition to build a track record as one of the new breed. Is Beaufort County's superintendant smart enought to do that?

Commented: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 7:56 am By: Steven P. Rader

I have said many times violence is not the answer.
A lynch mob doesn't begin with a hanging, it ends with one. Your posts incite and promote violence against the LBTQ community. I will not join in.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 3:39 pm By: Big Bob

You missed the most important one,,,NC DPI

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 4:04 pm By: Ray Leary

My message to all those moderate republicans and democrats. Show up at school board meetings. Sure you maybe called all sorts of horrible names by the extreme loud minority, but if you don't, your kids are gonna be in trouble. Remember, at some point they will come for you.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 6:36 pm By: Big Bob

There are too many puppets of the superintendant on that school board. Simply put, we need more representative of the parents and taxpayers.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 5:00 pm By: John Steed

Stan, you or your movement will never swim in the big pond if you keep insulting the American voter.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By: Big Bob

Hard to know what their thinking was, but this will clobber Fox and lead to mistrust of the channel by its viewer base, much of which will likely turn to OneAmerica News or Newsmax.

I think Tucker Carlson will thrive whereever he decides to go. Fox, not so much.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 10:27 am By: Conservative Voter

Woke history is distorted history. It is teaching leftist propaganda instead of what really happened. Orwell described what today's left is up to in his novel "1984":

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 10:12 am By: John Steed

Most of us grew out of the "takes one to know one" retort in about the 3rd grade, but it looks like Bob didn't as he still slings it around quite a bit. His support of child grooming or sexualization of children is sickening. A drag queen story hour for children is as disgusting as a drug dealer story hour for children.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 9:55 am By: Bubba

I guess we can agree to disagree.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 9:21 am By: Big Bob

787 million worth of lies plus he hates trump. How do know? Trunker said so in texts and emails.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 9:16 am By: Big Bob

The only one here who supports REAL lynch mobs on these boards, is YOU, Little Bobbie, like the one that attacked Riley Gaines. The fantasy way you use the term "lynch mob" is downright Orwellian.

The Catholic Church is already a big target of the left, from ANTIFA and abortion extremists to the political hacks of the FBI.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 7:27 am By: Conservative Voter