“Demonizing” teachers? *Riiiiiiiiight.*
As the election gets closer, leftists are unveiling their usual tried and true scare-the-hell-out-of-the-voters tactics:
A few days before thousands of North Carolina students go back to school amid a statewide teacher shortage, top North Carolina Democrats say state leaders need to stop “demonizing” public schools and make it easier to be an educator. House Democratic Leader Robert Reives told reporters during a news conference Thursday at the Legislative Building that state government needs to “make sure that public education is seen as a good, professional option for people coming out of school.” Aside from paying more and improving school funding as part of the long-running Leandro court case, Senate Democratic Leader Dan Blue said “we can do things to substantially improve the condition of being a teacher.”[…]
Like what? Throw more money at it? With these people, there will NEVER be ENOUGH money in the school coffers. NEVER.
MORE:
[…] “You don’t put the bullseye on their back and organize people across the state to demonize them for what they are teaching in a basic education plan,” Blue said. “Should you demonize teachers because they’re teaching some aspect of civics, so the kids understand how their government is organized in elementary school? Should you demonize them because you’re trying to teach them rudimentary concepts of science, while they’re young?”
The “basic education plan” is and HAS BEEN the problem all along. Leftists have inserted political ideology and indoctrination into every aspect of K-12 education. The nonsense spouted by the radical green activists is infesting school science programs. I have friends who tell me of their elementary school age kids coming home crying because they were told the Earth will soon die because their parents have been killing it.
Meanwhile, you ought to see what I encounter on college campuses. An awful lot of kids with high school diplomas can neither competently write a three-page essay nor tell you who George Washington or Paul Revere or Sam Adams or Lafayette were. People like that, who helped found our country, are being downplayed or “cancelled” altogether in favor of Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton, The Obamas, or Cesar Chavez.
If you were a white male who lived in America prior to 1861, you are / were a racist. The name of Francis Scott Key is being removed from monuments and buildings — because he was “racist.” Lefties are even attempting to wipe out the name of George Washington from our history. Because he was “racist.” 
The liberals’s “baby” — critical race theory (CRT) — hammers into the kids’s heads that white people have done little more than terrorize and oppress people of color and women. That’s destructive. It’s false. It undermines attempts at peaceful coexistence. The kids may not be able to read or write very well, nor understand what happened in the American Revolution, but they damn well will get their fair share of Maya Angelou.
This COULD be a great campaign issue for North Carolina Republicans. It’s not about censorship. It’s about balance. and telling the truth. It’s about creating an environment where kids can. search for their own answers, instead of being steered leftward by faculty and administration ideologues.
But the nominally-Republican cowards in leadership in Raleigh are too scared of ol’ Roy to stand up for parents and kids across the state.
Was Tim Moore a craven coward on the Parental Bill of Rights or was he just kowtowing to the “woke” special interests? He is prone to both. Our GOP candidates challenging Democrat incumbents could have used this as an issue even if Cooper vetoed the bill. Thanks to sell-out Tim Moore, they do not have this ammunition for their campaigns.
Berger and Moore are constant sell outs to Roy Cooper and the “woke” special interests. We need REAL leaders in Raleigh and Berger and Moore just do not cut the mustard. With their spines of jelly, it is amazing they can even walk upright. Their weak record is one reason that it will be harder this year than it should be to motivate Republican voters to go to the polls.
I never had or met a good public school teacher. #TerriblePeople Public schools are garbage in NC and most of the USA. #PublicSchoolsAreChildAbuse #GoodParentsHomeschool #DefundPublicEducation
The Education establishment is nothing but a self serving cartel , that only has two goals … more money , and elect more democrats…. period. Thank goodness my children are grown or they’d be in private school , and actually receiving an education and being taught to think for themselves….
I’m certainly glad I graduated from Benvenue High School in Nash County in 1964. There was the utmost respect for the faculty by 99.99999% of the entire student body for my 12 yrs there.
Patrick, you evidently missed “back in the day”.
Yes I had a teacher pulling crystals out of her pockets holding them up to the sky and said they gave her power. I had teachers that active let drug dealers sit in class and count their money on the desk for the whole class period every day. I had school administrators that care more about me staying after-school and sweeping up bloody menstrual products out of the women’s bathrooms then if I ever learned anything in class… I totally understand people dropping out of public schools everyone should it is #ChildAbuse
For those of us in your generation Browny Douglas, K-12 schools in the community, it is very difficult to see public school education today. Our teachers lived in our community, taught us M-F and again on Sunday in Sunday School. IF for any reason there would have ever been a problem, and there wasn’t, said teacher would have been at our doorstep that afternoon. Teachers were revered, respected and molded/grounded us for life. My best life lessons came from those teachers. Sadly, that is lost and will never return. NEA gladly destroys schools and systems. Most teachers joined b/c it was their safety net if ever sued or accused. That was the ‘selling point’.
I also spent grades 1 through 12 in one school. School consolidation was the worst thing we could do. The strength of rural and small-town schools was their strong community ties. We threw that away. Putting all that back together will take a determined grassroots effort.
Anybody paying attention to all the school board races across the country? Every lunatic liberal member clinging to the anti-White CRT canard is being tossed out the door, including in San Francisco and most recently in Florida. Or, have you read about the ‘gender affirming care’ craziness going on at hospitals across the country where kids are being maimed or stuffed w hormone blockers as part of their transitioning process? These are kitchen table, basic issues that the GOP and stooge sidekick NCGOP could run on but where are they??? M.I.A. If the NCGOP can’t even conjure up a cogent message of protecting our children from these lunatics, then they — Berger, Moore, Perry, Bell and the rest of the pathetic crew — are GROOMERS just like their BFF Roy,
Here’s a great way to vent your frustrations on Berger, Moore, and the NCGOP. Do what they don’t want done. Walk a signature sheet (see link) around your community and then submit it to your local BOE to put the NC Constitution Party on the 2024 ballot. Alternately, we can just hang around here and just voice our discontent with the status quo.
https://www.constitutionpartync.com/petition-procedure-instructions/
I think the better strategy is to try to work with Lt. Governor Mark Robinson to get him the nomination for governor. As governor, his choice for party chairman will be a shoe-in, especially so since he is extremely popular with the grassroots of the party. Indeed, a smart move for Robinson, and for conservatives, will be to elect a Robinson-friendly state party chairman next year, so the party machinery will be friendly to him during the campaign period.
I am not terribly impressed with the Constitution Party in NC or nationally. Such a party could play a significant role in NC GOP primaries if our state had cross endorsement like New York, but we do not.
Tim, Phil and crew will work feverishly to torpedo Robinson. Hopefully, the grassroots recognizes this fact, does what it can to support him. BUT more importantly Robinson must NOT run a HORRIBLE campaign like Dan Forrest and must NOT seek the advice of any ‘conservative’’ consultant or anyone within the orbit of that feckless former LG.
Daily reminder: the vegetable in the White House is running circles around the GOP and NCGOP. Thom Tillis, who will be Tim and Phil’s choice for governor, has voted WITH Biden on everything including grabbing your guns.
These are bad people, folks.
I think we should use both strategies: 1) Get the Constitution Party on the ballot 2) Rally around Lt. Governor Robinson and other decent Republicans.
It seems to me we need a comprehensive approach in our dealings with RINOs, uni-party, establishment – whatever label these scoundrels are categorized under. I too favor the cross endorsement strategy.
It’s just a fact that RINOs and like hate constitutional conservatives way more than they oppose Democrats. It’s also a fact that these vermin are infested at the national, state, and local levels and are constantly undermining conservatives. We must take them as seriously as enemies as they take us. They do not work with us, only against us. They have the audacity to expect our money and our votes while they simultaneously backstab us. Personally, I will not semi-cooperate with them any longer. I agree. They are bad people.
Daily reminder of just how duplicitous Tillis is.
Budd is traveling all over the state w this guy. Is he a con too?
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/09/01/did-the-senate-just-lock-down-the-votes-to-trump-proof-the-next-election-n493974
And along that bad guy theme: Tillis will absolutely lead the charge that will put all of us into Biden’s gulags. Bad guy is an understatement.
I’m out.
The Republican leadership unwilling to stand up for parents and kids are not just in Raleigh. In my county our party leadership has virtually abandoned local candidates, especially school board candidates, and sent the majority of the money in their coffers out of the county. I initially thought they were just mad about having two primaries that took out two do nothing Republicans on the school board. But alas, they are not supporting the lone Republican school board candidate facing a Democrat incumbent either.
In this environment its best to just support vetted individual candidates.