Comments for To our School Board: You need our parents and community | Eastern North Carolina Now

This is fun! Now explain away Jim Crow.

Commented: Monday, March 27th, 2023 @ 10:18 am By: Big Bob

Studied, yes. Celebrated no. The confedercy lost the civil leaving Jim Crow as a legacy. We were all to young to be involved with slavery but each of us has profited from Jim Crow. We supported it. We looked they other way. I hold no malice towards anyone for I am not perfect. But I will not celebrate the idea that the content of a persons character is determined by their skin color.

Commented: Sunday, March 26th, 2023 @ 9:03 pm By: Big Bob

There are definitely active PTO at most of the schools. Many of them have their own Facebook page and update regularly. In fact, just a bit behind you, a current PTO treasurer spoke that night. Also, TW Allen is the timekeeper. He’s the one watching the stop watch and if I remember correctly he tried to get your attention when your time was up before Cheeseman spoke up. I don’t disagree with your assessment that Cheeseman shouldn’t be front and center. He should be seated with the other county employees to the left (as you’re looking at the board) during meetings. He is hired by the board and is there at the courtesy of the board. Myself and a few other parents wondered during this meeting if perhaps we should appeal to a local business or two to possibly sponsor the video cost? As to who should run the video, I don’t see why BCS Public Information Officer Kristin Riddle or BCS Director of Community and Family Engagement Ashley Padgett aren’t a clear and obvious choice.

Commented: Sunday, March 26th, 2023 @ 8:05 pm By: Molly

The real destortions of history are in the left's War on History, including their elimination of historic monuments, their twisted CRT history, their mangled 1619 project, their hate against our founding fathers, etc. Yeah, one school district in Florida decided Michelangelo's David, which features a graphic set of male genitals is pornographic. It may be art, but it also may be inappropriate at some ages. The crackpots are generally in the education establishment.

Commented: Sunday, March 26th, 2023 @ 7:32 am By: Conservative Voter

Our Republicans in the US Congress are to be congratulated on sticking to principle and passing the national Parents Bill of Rights forcing the public school establishment to respect the rights of parents. Now we will see if we have any RINO defectors in the Senate. Hopefully not, but with the likes of McConnell in charge, it may not be as united as the GOP in the US House of Representatives.

In the General Assembly, it is shameful that liberal RINO Speaker Tim Moore prevented the state Parents Bill of Rights from being voted on last session, and there is real concern that he may do it again.

Commented: Friday, March 24th, 2023 @ 2:36 pm By: Rino Hunter

Stan: I just read your dissertation about losing the local school districts website business, and how your county's taxpayers on the hook for a bunch more money to let that local business "far, far away" and I think I got your problem figured out, even though it is too late to do anything about it now.

Now Stan, you know that I have known you a very long time, and I do respect your integrity as someone that knows you, and someone that has read most of what you write here, but my good friend, you have to understand that losing that business is your own fault, and it you want someone to blame go haul your ass to mirror and take a good long look at your conservative Republican self.

Stan, you are a smart guy, and you should know by now that these county schools are mostly run by Democratic, which sounds like it is the case in your Beaufort County, and no good Democratic is going to do business with you when they can place that business with some Democratic business, even if it is "far, far away," and for significantly more money. So, here is the solution even if it is a bit too late for the learning.

Why don't you drop all that integrity stuff that you just can't seem to quit, and join up with the Democratics? There you go, problem solved. You can then promise the moon, deliver so much less, and walk away far richer than you probably are now.

Or, be like that "Fake Frankie" fellow that I read about when that Hood fellow writes those articles that I also enjoy reading; then you get to stay a Republican, but vote like a Democratic; keep the local business, and who knows maybe these Democratic school fellows might even pay you the additional $"16,900.00" too much. Heck, its only the people's money, and when have Democratics ever cared about that inconvenient reality?

Of course, here in Wilkes County, Georgia, there is big change a happening, where Republicans are getting most of the vote now, and they are voting only for those real kind of Republicans like yourself, so that might not last too long if Beaufort County starts changing over to that real side of living as free folk.

I got another idea Stan, maybe you should move here. It is mighty pleasant in these north Georgia hills. Heck, I might even enjoy your company ... that is if you promise not to ever take my advice about that recent nonsense about you turning Democratic.

We could use another real Republican down here. You could be one of our county commissioners, plus most folks like doing business with you real types down here.

If you want to build your "platforms" down here too, you should not have any trouble doing business. On that, my friend, your little company is in a league of its own.

Commented: Friday, March 24th, 2023 @ 11:17 am By: Wyatt Sanderman Day

Parents should be involved with their child’s education and school. However, that does not mean every crackpot idea is a good one. Schools have standards. They can’t and shouldn’t cater to the individual.

Commented: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 10:08 am By: Big Bob

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

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