Comments for School Board should reject proposed social studies curriculum | Eastern North Carolina Now

It is frightening to think that the school board is even thinking about doing this to Beaufort County's children.

Commented: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 7:41 am By: Victoria

Woke public school curriculums will be key topics in other GOP primaries in 2024. Do those three school board Republicans want to stay on the side of their own party in that primary? I would think they would, as the opposite course would likely be politically fatal.

In the Governor's primary, the two top candidates will be Lt. Governor Mark Robinson and State Treasurer Dale Folwell. Both are publicly opposed to woke curriculums in public school. For Robinson, it is his top issue, and he fought very hard and very publicly against the woke social studies curriculum at the state BOE. Folwell also is on the record opposed to that very curriculum. Facing GOP primary voters, are school board members going to want to be on the same side as their top gubenatorial candidates or on the same side as Roy Cooper and his state BOE appointees?

Then there is the presidential primary, where the two top contenders, Donald Trump and Ron deSantis are both opposed to woke public school curriculums. DeSantis is making that a major part of his campaign, and the company SAVVAS that is inbolved here is one rejected in FLorida for being woke. Do candidates running in a 2024 Republican primary want to be on the same side as their top presidential candidates or on the same side as Biden's Education Department?

These issues will clearly be in the forefront for voters in 2024 primaries in races beyond just the school board.

What we have is a school superintendant trying to cozy up to what the education establishment wants to further his own career when he is ready to move up to a bigger system and throwing the schhol board members under the bus to do it. He cares nothing that following his proposal (and everyone knows his "committee" is just a smokescreen) would be fatal to the political careers of the school board members. To him, that is just collateral damage.

Polls show that voters do not want wokeness in public schools, which is why this is a big issue in other races. It is what elected a full Republican slate in Virginia two years ago.

Hopefully school board members are smarter than the superintendant thinks they are.

Commented: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 9:23 am By: John Steed

Thanks for the compliment Steve.

I see all this so very clearly, and I am not even an "Educator;" however, I do know how teach others how to do stuff, some of it highly technical. What is perplexing me now is that so many in our prospective labor force do not have a sufficient understanding of the basics to embrace the perspective of basic logic. Basic knowledge or "common sense" is being replaced by the Cancel Culture's skewed perspective of what is real.

I also have the capacity to learn from others, and from some individuals who possess no more than a high school education, maybe less. Funny how this construct is now evolving, and I am not alone in this understanding of the worth within those that intrinsically know how to do stuff, real stuff.

Until, I see big changes if the aura of the Education Industry; its true purpose and place in a well functioning society, one that strives to create productive adults in far greater numbers, I will hound this issue, and I will seek to better fund what works by MY concept of what will work, and then what is proved to be working will be rewarded.

We must have a productive workforce, and a population that will strive to become exceptional if this Republic can compete and survive.

Rewarding the nonproductive, or poorly functioning must end in today's and tomorrow's America ... The insipid "Woke" among us be damned.

Commented: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 5:26 am By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, I don't think you would make it writing a curriculum for the education industry. They don't seem to want anyone to the right of Bernie Saunders. The sad thing is that all of this should be neutral and non-partisan but it is not. I like the British school law that requires as a matter of law that on controversial subjects, all sides be presented to students in a neutral manner. Our education industry in the US is not even close to doing that.

Commented: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 7:26 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The term "woke" was originated by the far left for their radical ideology. Now that those with good sense are pushing back, some on the left, like Bob below, want to run away from their term.

When it comes to education, one must drill down into the "woke" ideology to get to the parts of it that are a direct threat to education. The closely related concepts of CRT and DEI are the main danger. They are Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. As to DEI, the three terms seem positive on the surface, but the left has redefined them to stand them on their heads, like Orwellian Newspeak and the left's twisted definistions are far from positive. In fact they are the opposite of the original meanings.

Equity has been redefined to mean government induced equaity of result, much like Karl Marx called for in the Communist Manifesto. It is the polar opposite of the American concept of equality of opportunity. The term "equity" as spouted by the leftists of today connotes a kind of neo-Marxism that should not be promoted in the schools.

"Diversity" and "inclusion" have also been turned on their heads. Instead of the old definition that involved bringing everyone together and treating them the same, the new leftie definition involves favoring some while disfavoring others. Some groups are lauded as "victims" while others are denounced as "oppressors" just like CRT.

An example of the new use of "inclusion" came from a school board in a Frnech speaking part of Ontario which conducted a book burning of books in their library they did not consider "woke" enough. For example, they burned books about the early Frnech explorers of Canada because they did not approve of their relationships with the native tribes. This school board made a video of their book burning for the students, saying it was an example of "inclusion" and suggested students go home and burn similar books. Book burning is "inclusion"?? Who Knew? But don't let the Nazis find out.

Then there is the new definition of "diversity". The UN held a conference on diversity last year and an Iranian representative got up and advocaaed exterminating the Jewish people. No one seems to have called him down on that monstrosity. So that's it, under these new definitions. If you want to burn books and exterminate a religious group, you are promoting diversity and inclusion. I like the old definitions a whole lot better.

From those who have seen it, the 15 page description of this curriculum from SAVVAS is riddled with these terms, diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI is equally bad as CRT, and in many ways there is ltttle difference. This is not what we need for the children of Beaufort County.

Commented: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 5:53 pm By: Conservative Voter

There is a very good speech that went viral on the internet showing how many black folks do not appreciate the "woke" manipulations by the white left. It was given on the floor of the UK's House of Commons by Kemi Baddenoch, a native of Nigeria and serving as a Conservative member of parliament and Minister of Equalities in Boris Johnson's cabinet. It can be viewed at this link: www.facebook.com (make sure to unmute your speaker) The speech was called the "speech of the year" on the grassroots party activist site Conservative Home.

Commented: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 12:12 pm By: Steven P. Rader

These homosexual rainbow flags are all over the place with SAVVAS. It is obvious that they want to groom our children for a pererted lifestyle. It is up to the school board to stop them. They are groomers and they should make all parents sick.

Commented: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 9:37 am By: Bubba

I purposely know nothing about this "SAVVAS"; maybe because right now I have far larger issues in my creative work cycle that seems to be deepening in a most productive, and finally, unto a prospective profitable end, and then there is the ultimate reason why I have NO interest in "SAVVAS" ...

What I DO ultimately know, and in great purpose, is that education in America is NOT producing the calibre of citizen that will be able to sustain this Republic, and that MUST begin to change NOW.

What I also know is that I will NEVER support any curriculum that motivates the highly profitable, and NOW poorly administered Education Industry from righting its badly listing ship of serving this better, brighter future that MUST begin to evolve NOW ... for we all have paid for that better end result, and we, hardworking taxpayers, damn well deserve it.

Any curriculum that makes any attempt in reaching out to ANY special interest group, as some ancillary motive to provide undue INCLUSION, rather than the instruction of REAL educational directives, of a far more prominent purpose, is only a distraction from the ABSOLUTE charge of what MUST be Education Professionals' unwavering purpose of serving the betterment of our Republic, and Americans becoming far smarter and FAR more productive than they are here now. This basic assumption of prominent purpose is at the tip top of this mighty maxim of societal betterment.

That is how I ONLY know the way forward, and therefore that is my constituents' directive to my elected purpose as an allocator of funding ... and until I am unelected by the greater will of the People, I will unrelentingly serve for this endeavored end.

Commented: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 8:23 am By: Stan Deatherage

They are trying to force this propaganda down from the top. The far left state Board of Education put out a radical Social Studies curriculum that was strenuously objected to at the time. The bureaucrats at NCDPI then found this radical SAVVAS curriculum that matched and are pushing it down to counties.

At the county level, school superintendants whose career path is to move to larger systems and feel they need to have good relationships with the education esbablishment, then fall all over themselves to push this propaganda at the county level. They use those staff at the local central office who are also looking to climb the ladder to assist in pushing it.

The education establihment from the state BOE down to the local central office staff is all stacked for "woke" and aagainst parents. For some it is ideological and for others career-based of kissing the right ass but it is still anti-parent and anti-stueent when the rubber meets the road.

The only group who is in a position to stand up for parents and students and stop this political indoctrination in our schhols is the elected school boards. The unfortunate thing is that too many of them incorrectly see the superintendant as their boss, when in reality he is their employees. Any school board member who stands with the ideologues in the education establsihment and against parents and students in child indoctrination needs to be turned out of office at the next opportunity. The voters have the ultimate say.

Commented: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 8:01 am By: John Steed

Apon further research into SAVVAS I came across yet another article on SAVVAS celebrating Pride Month & Beyond.

blog.savvas.com

Commented: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 11:05 pm By: Jann