Beaufort County NC Schools Compliant with President Trump's Executive Order? | Eastern North Carolina Now
If BCS is in compliance, it is good they got a head start
2/21/2025
During the BCS board meeting on February 18, 2025 there was a discussion of Policy Code 3100, Curriculum Development. The discussion was centered on curriculum selection for social studies and US history. Currently the Beaufort County schools do not have a social studies and US history curriculum approved by the NC State Department of Public Instruction. The teachers rely upon guidance from the NC standards for teaching history and use materials publicly available to provide classroom instruction.
An effort to adopt an approved social studies curriculum was abandoned in 2023 after citizens and parents complained that the recommended course had too many elements of critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) spread throughout the offering by SAVVAS, a textbook/curriculum supplier.
During the 2/18/2025 meeting a question was asked of Dr. Norris Parker, Curriculum Coordinator, what impact would President Trump's executive order would have on Beaufort County schools. His response was that it would have no impact as the Policy Code 3100 Curriculum Development, which was revised and adopted in 2024 addressed the issue of CRT in Beaufort County schools.
He did not call attention to the effort to change Policy Code 3100 came after an 18-month pursuit by the Beaufort County Conservative Club and board members elected in 2022 to rewrite this policy to eliminate Critical Race Theory from BCS curricula. Prior to this policy revision, teaching of CRT was allowed if NC DPI approved course materials contained elements of Critical Race Theory.
It has yet to be determined the response from the recently elected Democrat state School Superintendent of Public Instruction.
From THE HILL, 1/29/2025, by Lexi Lonas Cochran:
President Trump signed an executive order to prohibit federal funds from going to K-12 public schools that teach critical race theory (CRT) or gender issues. “On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children,” Trump said previously. https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5113202-trump-schools-executive-order-crt-gender-ideology/
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John Steed said:
( February 25th, 2025 @ 4:30 pm )
Journalism in the era of Wells was a very different thing than today. In those days, they were more like to do real journalism than today when so many in the media are propagandists rather than real journalists. Unfortunately today, so many media workers are into what they call "advocacy journalism" which is really nothing but pure propaganda. A real journalist tries to tell both sides, something their modern bretheren usually do not, at least in the US MSM. In some foreign countries, real journalism does seem to survive.
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Van Zant i understand completely. I see her as an American that was a great writer and defending her freedom of speech.
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Jann: I suppose my biggest difference with Bob on things like this is that he sees Ida B. Wells-Barnett as interesting because she is black, and I see an interesting person that happens to be black. I don't think that makes me the racist.
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Jann- It's likely Ida would not be in the MAGA party.
Ida B-Wells-Barnett was a journalist, anti-lynching activist, women's suffragette, and an early civil rights movement leader. The melt down on this thread pretty much supports my position on the subject. |
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Bob I definitely think Ida B Wells would have been MAGA also! Especially since she was a Republican that was very much into free speech. She definitely was better for women's rights seeing the Democrats praise Margaret Sanger.
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Woke has run our schools for too long and the result is that kids are dumbed down.
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Noel posts a racist post, I meet him half way, and at least three others have a melt down.
If you let MAGA run county schools, your kids will grow up idiots. This is it in a nutshell. |
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