How screwed up is Governor’s School?
Let’s see. Here we have a damning presentation compiled by NO Left Turn In Education, a conservative activist group, for Lt. Governor Mark Robinson’s FACTS task force.
A few, um, highlights:
- Hiring and promotion of far-left activists as “teachers”
- Implementation of critical race theory without actually calling it THAT
- Students chastised about “heterosexual privilege”
- Students chastised about “white privilege”
- Far-left coordinator of school married to Gov. Cooper’s senior education advisor
- Students lectured / condemned for “Christian privilege”
- PhDs disseminating complicated medical (M.D.) information
- The Flying Gender Unicorn
The presenters are pretty spot-on in their description of North Carolina Governor’s School — billed as the top educational opportunity for our state’s gifted children — as “A State Program to Indoctrinate High School Students in Far-Left Ideology.”
By the way, alleged Republican Catherine Truitt is responsible for this travesty. She can — and likely will — try to blame this mess on her Republican predecessor. But she’s been in power for TWO YEARS and nothing has been done to tamp this down or stop it.
The GOP legislature has oversight responsibility over the Department of Public Instruction and the Governor’s School. They need to exercise this responsibility immediately. The respective legislative committees need to launch an investigation into this case which, I predict, will unveil the radical wokeness which has become endemic in the Governor’s School. North Carolina’s brightest students are being thoroughly indoctrinated in radical leftist ideology. The legislature cannot run from this issue.
If “the right people” give Tim Moore enough money, what you are suggesting, proper legislative oversight, will never happen.
I fear you are probably right. No doubt big liberal money is flowing to both Moore and Truitt from Governor’s School allies to prevent an investigation.
Next, Whatley will be telling us that we have the best legislative leaders that money can buy.
I agree with Franklin, the general assembly needs to provide investigations into the gross mismanagement of funds and the overall decay in K-12 schools and the Governor’s School. Republican legislators have been very hands off with providing oversight because they “trust” a fellow Republican to do the heavy lifting of running North Carolina’s education department. Clearly Truitt isn’t competent and worse, she’s putting the blame for these failing institutions on the very people who have been working to deliver excellent education to 1.5 million students in the system.
NEVER TRUITT. It is essential that conservatives unite on one primary opponent to take out this leftist twit Truitt in the 2024 priimary.
Catherine Truitt is directly responsible for the Governors School. She appointed and fully supports the leadership. She recently wrote a letter in which she said that she 1) was unable to do anything about her predecessors mistakes earlier, but 2) spent 2022 “cleaning up” the Governors School, so 3) everything is just fine now. Except that there seem to be a number of complaints about the administration that she put in place and in 2022 a highly regarded Professor was summarily fired after raising concerns about the harmful impact that the racist woke identity policies of the school were having on the students. Ms. Truitt claims to have been unaware of any of this, even though she also claimed to have spent 2022 focused on the Governors School. She did say in her letter that she has since determined the firing to be completely justified. The Professor, who was apparently denied any explanation or appeal, filed a lawsuit against the school which has been gaining national attention. Not a good look.
Over half the state budget goes to the foolish bureaucrats running this circus. WHERE IS THE LEGISLATURE? Tim Moore and his buddies too busy expanding medicare while running our education system into the ground? Tillis, Moore, Berger, Whatley…these people are who we have in leadership? What have they done–absolutely nothing.
Too often, the Berger / Moore “leadership” is actively pushing the Democrat left agenda, as they have with boys in the girls restrooms / locker rooms (repeal of HB2), Green New Deal (HB951), and now the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. If not, they are blocking the Republican agenda as Moore did with the parents bill of rights. With “Republicans” like Berger and Moore, who even needs Democrats?
A lot of the reason is that Berger and Moore regularly prostitute themselves to the special interests instead of standing up for Republican principles. They are such whores that they ought to install red lights above their office doors. As the old saying goes, “if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
There is not a dimes worth of difference between Tim Moore and Liston Ramsey and not a dimes worth of difference between Phil Berger and Marc Basnight.
North Carolina parents are disgusted with all this Neo Marxist crap being shoved into our children and young ones. Many of us are fed up with the phony Republican leadership on education issues among other things.
We have precinct meetings and county conventions coming up. If regular folks don’t replace the rotten pieces of the North Carolina Republican Party with something credible now, it won’t be worth fixing later. It’s now or never.
Duplicitous leadership by elected officials, pathetic oversite by appointed boards, actual attacks on conservatives instead of the supposed enemies of Republicans. That is what the corrupt NCGOP is presently. Dishonest Republicans are even worse than Democrats. At least the Democrats don’t lie about who and what they are.