Teacher's Desk | Eastern NC Now
Delma Blinson tells it the way he sees it.
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If there was a Category 5 hurricane a hundred miles off our coast and headed straight for Beaufort County would you expect our School Board to to preparing for it?
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It appears that North Carolina's school system is losing touch with logic once again. Rather than re-write the history taught in our schools, just don't teach it at all?
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The Beaufort County Board of Education often makes many of its decisions out of public view. This is a violation of the N. C. Open Meetings law, certainly in spirit, if not technically.
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Back in December Commissioner Hood Richardson raised an issue about a quarter of a million dollar grant the school system has to improve the teaching of U. S. History.
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Nearly every school board member and every politician we have ever known expresses concern about this issue. So what are we doing about the problem?
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Our School Board continues to violate the Open Meetings Law. The latest incident was Friday, December 18, 2009, when a special meeting was called without proper notification.
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Newly elected Beaufort County Board of Commissioners Chairman Jerry Langley will have his work cut for him if he wants to achieve a better workable relationship with the Beaufort County School Board.
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The court found that the students were given the required hearings, both at the administrative level and at the board level and thus were not deprived of procedural due process.
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"Bad Day at Blackrock?" It's a 1955 Western where the day started bad and got progressively worse. As an allegorical reference to the Board of Education it is most appropriate.
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Commissioner Hood Richardson is still trying to get the school system to disclose how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) works. Good for him. Bad for the school system.
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