Comments for The inappropriate instructional materials imbroglio shows how sloppy our school system is being run | Eastern North Carolina Now

Suspect this Superintendent looks upon CRT with a supportive eye? Take a read over his PhD dissertation (completed recently) and you’ll confirm your suspicions! I look at the names he mentions in his introduction, the people that he thanks. That tells you everything you need to know about where he stands on the issue.

I am the author of the original article about this inappropriate material given out to high school students. There are several more stories about this school district yet to be published. Many problems in this district.

Commented: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 1:32 pm By: Sloan Rachmuth

Sloan: You are welcome to submit your report here on Eastern NC NOW in its entirety, as a member of our Contributing Writers Class, and also submit any subsequent contributions supporting this narrative, or any other issues regarding the coming competition in educating our people, with that desired effect to reasonably supplant the Education Industry's monopoly, hopefully with a product more market driven in creating a more effective product of great purpose - making Americans smarter.

You can register to join Eastern NC NOW to submit, or correspond with me - stan@beaufortcountynow.com - to set you right for this or any future published works on our platform.

Commented: Friday, November 24th, 2023 @ 11:26 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Gary , it’s ok to disagree with your politics. It’s not ok it hate you for your orientation. People on the left May hate your politics, but people on the far right are more likely to take away your humanity, your rights and your life. They have a proven track record of doing it

Commented: Sunday, October 29th, 2023 @ 8:36 am By: Big Bob

Big Bob,

From personal experience the vitriol I regularly experience as a gay man is from extreme leftists that hate that I won't conform to their way of thinking, run as a regular candidate and not an LGBTWQWECJFHHJ candidate, and think independently ad do most gay people.

Commented: Sunday, October 29th, 2023 @ 8:07 am By: Gary Ceres

Why should anybody take direction from people who can even acknowledge their past ? Being mean to gay and trans people because they exist is just wrong

Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 8:05 pm By: Big Bob

John Steed's last comments are on target. Cheeseman should start earning his money.

Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 11:02 am By: Hood Richardson

This previous comment by Prendiegirl is her last since it was submitted under a Fake Email. She may begin anew if she submits comments under a real email.

Once again from the publisher: NO more comments accepted under Fake Emails.

Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 9:38 am By: Stan Deatherage

The key is looking at the written agreements between the Beaufort County Schools and the Community College.

When two organizations collaborate on a project, there is usually a written agreement signed by them that governs their collaboration, normally called a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). I am familiar with such documents from my time as Resident Country Director for a US-based organization in Moldova, having been involved in negotiating and signing a couple of them with the Moldovan government.

If the MOU between the Community College and the Beaufort County Schools did not already cover this type of situation, one thing that should have been done after the situation arose is to modify it so that it would do so in the future. What has happened is over, and the key here is preventing similar occurences in the future. I did not hear anything from Superintendant Cheeseman that gave any assurance that anything like that was done.

It is actually a positive thing to see school board members rattling some cages on an issue like this. Too many of them sit there like bumps on a log. They really need to demand to see the MOU with the Community College to determine what more needs to be done.

One weakness the Beaufort County Schools has is that their board attorney is out of Raleigh, rather than a local attorney, who could have easily been called in to advise on this matter. Our school board attorneys have always been local attorneys in the past, who have competently represented the school board. Why they go all the way to Raleigh is beyond me. I suspect they are paying a higher hourly rate for a Raleigh attorney as well. When I was General Counsel for a state government department in the Jim Martin administration, we periodically hired outside counsel to handle litigation because our administration did not trust the Democrat Attorney General, and I was the one that arranged that outside counsel. Raleigh attorneys that handled government work had very high hourly rates, and I started hiring well qualified firms to come up from Charlotte because they were cheaper, and on top of that more efficient. There are quite a number of local attorneys here in Beaufort County more than competent to handle the school board's representation.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 9:35 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I disagree with the assignment in every way; it should not be part of the BCS curriculum. The issue is it was not part of the BCS curriculum; it was part of the BCCC curriculum. Has anyone asked Dr. Loope, who oversees the community college professors, why this was allowed? While the Early College is a part of BCS, the principal only has the right to question BCS employees, not BCCC employees. The students in the Early College only take classes with BCS employees during their freshman and part of their sophomore year. The rest of the time, they are in BCCC classes. That is why parents send their students out there to get to college classes early. While I think few good decisions are coming from the BCS superintendent, this is one case where questions are being asked of the wrong people. I would like to know what BCCC's stance on this is.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 6:08 pm By: Jack Maggio

I hope that more people will take Prendiegirl's advice and attend the school board meetings. You can watch the Chairman hang on to the arm of the Superintendent for what to say next. He still has not learned that the Superintendent works for the school board and the people and not the other way around. Oh, parents, they don't know how to raise children. The school will take care of that. Just drop them off and let them babysit until they can get home and the TV and cell phones take over the job.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 2:09 pm By: Buzz Cayton

Do you?

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 11:50 am By: Big Bob

It happened at the College. Disciplinary actions were taken with the teacher. There is such a thing as privacy such as the HIPPA laws. The school board does not control the College. Try going to a meeting instead of getting your information from Hood Richardson and his cronies.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 9:31 am By: Prendiegirl

This is not their first rodeo. Inappropriate radical gender theory material has been presented earlier at Washington High School, and now we have it at the Early College Program. Whatever Cheeseman claims to be doing to stop this is not working, and he is very vague about exactly what steps (if any) he really took on this latest incident. Parents need details to know that this inappropriate type of material has been conclusively dealth with. Better yet, we need a new superintendant who cares more about children than his own personal reputation.

Commented: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 9:25 pm By: John Steed