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Ho Hum! More Fake Fauci "Facts" from our court jester Bobbie.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 11:18 am By: John Steed

Absolutely none of this is true.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 10:00 am By: Big Bob

Plus, masks are the sign of the beast. Many studies have shown the devil himself manufactures them in Guatemala for export to fund the pedophile ring run in the basement of all fast food (allegedly) restaurants in the US. Many studies have show this to be true.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 11:02 am By: Big Bob

I have held my nose for Thom Tillis for the last time, and had made that decision long before this latest screw up of his. If Tillis is on my ballot for any office, I will NOT be voting for him, nor will anyone in my family, nor anyone I can influence. He is a worthless scoundrel.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 9:40 am By: Conservative Voter

I Personally would never make fun of, or play with anyone about suicide or harming themselves! There are too many people out here who are going through a lot, and you never know what might push them over the edge! I don't agree 99.9 % with Tucker Carson, but I don't want anything bad to happen to him or anyone else.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 4:53 am By: Joyce

From what I read here and hear from others, the school board does not want the parents or community involved in what they do, they are happy dictating and indoctrinating the children and parents and community would get in their way.
While I don't have children it concerns me when 4th graders struggle with reading simple sentences or high school "graduates" don't have a clue about how gov't works, where different counties are even what part of the world the countries are in, math skill are no where to be found without a calculator, the students do not know how to properly sign their names only how to print and that includes HS seniors. The list is endless. From what I have seen there is very little actually educating in the basics going on and that seriously needs to change. Parents must be involved in the students education for that to happen.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 5:21 am By: Countrygirl1411

Authoritarian Cooper will never be considered as an education governor; not with the diminishment of public education in his more that 6 years of governor.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 12:55 am By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Buzz for keeping a public eye on these issues.

Because of my long standing political position, former fiduciary to the BCS, it has proved difficult for me to do so; however, I can, however, keep a keen watch on what education costs in this long protracted era of our state imposed public education monopoly.

More and more, I am of the opinion that fully imposed School Choice may be the best option for the public schools to correct their continued conundrum of providing what education our citizens will need going forward.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 12:12 am By: Stan Deatherage

Buzz, regarding your complaint of the BCS website, when we, (Symbiotic Networks) developed and maintained the school district's website, prior to the New Providers from Far, Far away, this inability to find pertinent information would Not have occurred, not unless the schools wanted it as such. It is simply just a process of organizing the Search parameters of the site's databases by, in part, correctly establishing key words, and then leading the public to use the intra site Search function properly.

A case in point is that BCS's former Superintendent, Don Phipps (who personally requested our services to significantly upgrade their website), thought it wise to organize the School District's School Policy data, which was in a large PDF format (basically an image file to a site's search engine) to one that could be quickly Searched by subject. To accomplish this, we reduced the PDF file to simple text, so that a multiplicity of desired subjects could be Searched by common terms, which meant many keywords and phrases were strategically loaded to trigger the Search tool to properly Search the site's expanded database, and do it in a many that was efficient.

Continuing in explanation, when Symbiotic Networks created and maintained the school's website, we gave the school system the utmost in quality of workmanship, and would be doing i still if we had their charge to do so. In our 5 years of creating and maintaining their website, we strove to excel in every measure, and, ironically, did so at a far lower cost to the public than what is being expended now.

When allowed to rebid that contract, we underbid the successful bidder by 16,900.00 over a projected 3 year period (this is my minimum estimation from the data that I was provided, it could, however, be more now). In this case the lower bid, by the local provider, was not successful, and the Beaufort County School Board sought services elsewhere, which is their right to do so ... even at the higher projected cost, even if the quality of product is in NO WAY superior.

To try to make sense of why we lost this bid, under the school's new management, we considered that the quality of our workmanship may not have measured up to their current desired standards; however, after our own evaluation of their New Site, by their New Provider, and at the aforementioned greater expense, we are most happy and proud to advise the public that their former local, less expensive provider (Beaufort County's own Symbiotic Networks, locally owned and operated) of said service was, and still is, easily capable of that measure of quality and innovation that any school system should receive ... and should demand.

Commented: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 10:55 pm By: Stan Deatherage

More Jewish Space Lasers!

Commented: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 5:33 pm By: Big Bob

Still the only honest Christian in modern times to hold the office

Commented: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 5:37 pm By: Big Bob