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W. It really is. In my job people often come to me with issues. Sometimes I can help them but sometimes I have to steer them in another direction because like all businesses, we have a process. I always try to be kind and get them to the right person but some, a few, struggle and demand I do what they want.
Those people end up disappointed but thete is a process to resolving all issues. Maybe the school board member wasn’t the right person. I’m sorry if you felt disrespected.

Commented: Monday, December 4th, 2023 @ 7:22 pm By: Big Bob

Washingtonian: What was your issue?

Commented: Monday, December 4th, 2023 @ 2:01 pm By: Big Bob

A couple of decades back, I was at a school board meeting because I had an issue I wanted to address. At the break I spoke with one of the members. He looked at me and said: Look, we board members dont have time for all this, and cant know about everything. We have a life outside of this. We have a job, we have a family and children of our own to deal with.
THAT's WHY we have a STAFF!
I thought to myself, well why are you even here?
Personally, I think the staff have their own clique going on, and work to make sure that the board is kept in the dark about most issues. A Board member MUST be diligent. He/She MUST seek out knowledge!! Dont take the lazy way out, because that is how we end up in the mess we are in.

Commented: Monday, December 4th, 2023 @ 12:23 pm By: Washingtonian

Washingtonian: Thanks for that reminder. I was busy with so many other issues, like raising 4 children and learning how to be a good county commissioner; that one got by me, got past The Hood too.

Now, look what "WOKE" has wrought - unbridled stupidity.

Commented: Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 @ 12:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage

CV: Exactly, CRT and DEI is a grouping of ideals to lay the foundation to destroy the fabric of this Constitutional Republic, not unlike the Church of the New Green Deal.

At its core, it is the unlocked front door to where stupidity lives, and some of us, who can actually think for themselves, well understand this one fluent maxim: Stupid will get you killed.

Me and my constituents want NO part of stupid, not in these prescient times when the writing is so clearly written on the collective wall of our future, SHOUTING: Which path leads where, and how to avoid the pitfalls where lethal danger lurks, biding its time to take and take and take.

Commented: Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 @ 9:41 am By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob: NO, but I do think of you as a virtue signaling first-rate fool, so does that even me out now/

Commented: Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 @ 8:38 am By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob: Is that one of your favorite words?

Why am I posing this as a question; Big Bob, history shows here on Eastern NC NOW that this may well be one of your favorite words.

I ask again why does your Leftist mind keep you preoccupied on Race? Do you believe that this endears you to anyone with a full working brain?

Commented: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 10:31 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob: I am not consumed with Race as you are, so DO NOT stupidly conflate all of your insipid issues with Race (in particular your Racial conflict of choice being Blacks v Whites), and then lay them at my feet as if I am a party to this madness. My elevated ability to know what is destroying this Republic; most notably, the low intellect of pathetic Leftists seeking to divide everyone, in particular by Race, into categories that Leftists can easily control by whatever ignorant means necessary, allows me the good conscience to patently discard the sophistry of abject Leftists such as yourself.

I am not alone. There are many other patriotic Americans are well of the fact that: Leftists are a trifling sort of fools, and their non patriotic tendencies, and their bold, baffling ignorance of what is real makes them no more than a nuisance going forward.






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Commented: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 3:41 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Teaching racial division like CRT and DEI is just promoting a new kind of segregation. We need school board members with the backbone to put a stop to it.

Commented: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 12:49 pm By: Victoria

Its called progress Stan. 60 years ago white people tossed around the N word. 50 years ago a landlord could rent to whites only and restaurants deny service to people of color. 40 years ago we shut down the sh*ty schools white people built for African Americans and integrated. Lacking generational wealth, its a long hard climb but the promise of America is coming true. Nothing you can do to stop it, as good always wins in the end.

Commented: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 9:59 am By: Big Bob

Bubba, it is quite common for there to be credible arguments on both sides of a legal question. In government, policy differences and issues of power and control between various levels of government are often dealt with as legal issues, and can often be argued from either side. That is why it is important in a government office to have attorneys who are on the same policy wavelength as the elected decision makers.

I served as General Counsel of the largest department of NC state government in the Jim Martin administration. At the end of administration, with an incoming Democrat administration, the new Democrat governor removed every departmental general counsel in state government, because we were all Republicans, even though in most cases they did not have a new appointee ready to fill the offices.

Another example is the relationship between attorneys for the Martin administration and the Democrat Attorney General. We often took different legal positions based on policy differences. Indeed, Governor Martin's Chief Counsel sent out a memo stressing that no agency in the administration should request an Attorney General opinion on any significant matter of policy but should issue our own departmental legal opinions instead. Three times, when lower agencies within our department unilaterally submitted something for an AG opinion, I had to write departmental opinions taking the opposite legal position. All three times those conflicting legal opinions were reviewed by higher authorities, and each time our departmental legal opinion prevailed over the AG opinion.

There are lots of conflicts in the law, caused by such things as differing statutes, differing opinions of the meaning of statutes, interpretations of appellate court decisions, and the like. Sometimes the law is very clear cut with no wiggle room, but very often, statutes and court decisions have have widely varying interpretations.

When it comes to public schools, DPI wants to control as much as they can, and sometimes is overbearing in its overreach. I remember 40 years ago, when a fellow member of the old Pitt-Beaufort Conservative Union, who was a conservative Democrat and served as school board attorney in Pitt County commented at one of our meetings about how the best way to deal with DPI's demands that local schools do or not do something was to challenge their legal authority to make the demand. Very often they did not have the authority they asserted, and they backed down. Indeed, quite often they did not even respond to his challenge to their authority and the local schools just kept doing things the way they wanted. Having a local school board attorney who is willing to stand up to DPI and assert the local school board's position is something every school board should do because the law is often not as clear cut as DPI would like.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 9:23 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Big Bob: CRT or DEI is not about about race, it is about stupidity, and, ultimately, just how far the Non Patriot Left thinks they than thrust this special brand of contrived ignorance down the throats of real Americans.

I am sorry that you are mixed up in this bonecrushingly stupid initiative. I will be watching closely to make sure our local public schools, funded by tens of millions of local tax dollars, is not.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 4:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You are right Bubba, we just haven't been successful. Yet.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 4:18 pm By: Big Bob

For years there has been an effort to get race and racism OUT of the schools. It is mind boggling that some want to bring it back in with Critical Race Theory. Those in Beaufort County trying to ban CRT are to be commended. It seems the superintendant is playing games on this, but how does the lawyer have anything to do with it? Isn't whatever the law is, the law?

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 12:12 pm By: Bubba

Big Bob: Are you addicted to the idea of Race?

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 7:41 am By: Stan Deatherage

Speaking of Attorneys, does everyone know that our City of Washington Attorney was reprimanded by the NCBAR?
www.ncbar.gov\Holscher,%20Franz%20Rep%2019G0115.pdf&keyword=

What is the school boards attorney's name? One can never be surprised about who may be found listed there for disciplinary action.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 11:24 pm By: Washingtonian

What DEI and CRT have in common is that they are designed to cause division in society, which the far left then intends to exploit. America does not need these divisive programs. We need to unite our country.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 4:42 pm By: John Steed