Comments for If I were the Devil... | Eastern North Carolina Now

Time will tell. Some parts of the country are more conservative than others. What might fly in LA, might not make the cut in Belhaven. The good thing about the modern age, we have the receipts.

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 1:22 pm By: Big Bob

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

Telling history from an American perspective is needed in the schools, not a woke or globalist perspective.

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 8:55 pm By: Victoria

History is history. It is not "white history" or "black history" or "green history" or "pink history". It is just history. That is until you try to politically distort it with something like CRT or the 1619 Project. What you want, Bolshevik Bob, is woke history and that is not real historty at all. Even the originator of the 1619 Project has admitted it is not history. You loony left woke buffoons want to make everything about race, but it is not. As race hustlers, you are the main racists of today. You purveyors of America's Maoist Cultural Revolution do, indeed, attack great explorers like Columbus as part of your War on History. Don't you comprehend you are being both anti-Catholic and anti-Italian when you do so?

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 12:36 pm By: Conservative Voter

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

My point Stan is this. Hillsdale teaches a whitewashed version of American history. From a single perspective. Ignoring other perspectives. Now if you want to pay good money to absorb that fairly tale by all means attend that school and get your degree.
However, a public school is indeed public. Non white kids have a right to learn their history. All students should be exposed to different perspectives. Saying this doesn't make me a communist, it makes my a grown up.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 8:21 pm By: Big Bob

Bob is clearly a woke globalist, and for them loyalty to your native country is evil, as is being a member of the white race. "Nativist" is another one of the terms therse people throw around aimed at their enemies.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 1:39 pm By: borderhawk

That is a term of Orwellian Newspeak used by the extreme left. They made up the term "white nationalist" to use for anyone to the right of "woke". If you are not "woke", these far left goons call you a "whate nationalist".

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 8:24 am By: Conservative Voter

Bob
Have you looked at the Hillsdale Curriculum? It is available on their website. Strange how facts matter. But that may not be in your agenda.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 9:24 pm By: Buzz Cayton

Big Bob: What is a "White Nationalist?"

I know you Leftists like to throw that term around as if it is an invective of great shame.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 11:20 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I really don't know enough about the Hillsdale Curriculum to comment on its exact proficiency.

However, I can reasonably deduct from my observations that a good number of the young men and women that they do graduate are clean cut (which I have never been), and seem to understand their defined purpose (which I do try to be cognizant of for myself, every day).

So ... what is there NOT to truly appreciate about the Hillsdale paradigm of producing effective American citizens? It may not be perfect, but I would wager that they render fewer overtly stupid graduates than near most any other center of higher learning in these United States, and ... "that's a good thing."

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 8:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The problem we have on the school board is that some spineless members, including some registered as Republicans, do not seem to comprehend that the superintendant is their employee, NOT their boss.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 8:44 am By: Rino Hunter

THis is typical liberal disinformation. That "My Turn" colunn in the Washington Daily News is from the education correspondant of the far left NC Policy Watch, which now calls itself NC Newsline. It is part of a leftwing network called States Newsroom, whose murky funding is hidden. Even the liberal establishment "fact checker" NewsGuard has critized that organization for having an activst agenda but not disclosing who was paying for it.

What happened was that Kidwell and other legislators were working on a broader bill to authorize the Hillsdale curriculum, and the legislative research staff determined that there was already legislative authorization for local school boards to adopt it, so no new legislation was necessary.

The education establishment has over the years gone from garden variety liberal to progressive woke in its slant on history, pushed by radical teachers unions and education bureaucrats. That resulted in the highly controversial new social studies curriculum adopted by the NC Board of Education, dominated by leftwing appointees of Governor Cooper. The big education companies pander to the big liberal states in pushing curricula they provide farther and farther to the left. "Wokeness" has been injected into much of the education establishment's offerings, and that is why a poll last year showed that 71% of North Carolina parents were concerned about political indoctrination in the schools.

The key is finding a traditional history / social studies curriculum that is not full of the woke alphabet soup of CRT, DEI, and ESG. Hillsdale College produces one that is respected by those not on the extreme left, but there are others. Texas demanded that the big education companies modify their curricula to present more traditional history, so Texas approved options would seem to be one way to accomplish this. FLorida has also taken a hard line in approving only curricula that are not "woke", so looking at curricula approved in Florida would also be an option.

The bottom line is that our school board needs to exercise the statutory authority it already has to adopt a trandtional non-woke curriculum.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 5:41 pm By: Steven P. Rader