Meet the New Boss. Different from the old boss …
Hopefully, like The Who sang, we WON’T get fooled again. If Moore County school board member David Hensley has anything to say about the matter, we won’t.
Hensley has been the chief bomb-thrower / hell-raiser for the board’s conservative trio that has been giving the central office bureaucrats (AND The Pilot) heartburn for the last two years. After last Tuesday, Hensley and the gang are assured of three more allies on the seven-member board.
From spending to construction costs to critical race theory (CRT) to gay porn in the libraries, Hensley has led the charge against the statist majority and their bureaucrat allies. Hensley and his crew are promising AT LEAST one full term of allowing the concerns of parents and taxpayers to guide the direction Moore County Public Schools takes.
Here is Hensley’s first post-election shot at the county’s education establishment has already been fired via social media:
If THAT doesn’t evoke some liberal tears, I don’t know WHAT will. Granted, in the grand scheme of things, this move is symbolic. But it IS important in the sense that it demonstrates to all parties involved that a new sheriff is in town and a new direction will be taken.
You can tell the bureaucrats in Carthage are pretty annoyed with Hensley. He’s been on the board nearly two years, and they still can’t seem to find a photo of him for the school system’s web site. (I found several on Google.)
The new conservative regime in Carthage will likely take a look at some of the system’s senior employees. The “communications director” at the school system is named Catherine Nagy. The managing editor of our local paper is John Nagy. Yes, there is a family relationship there. Yes, that relationship has likely influenced the paper’s coverage of the school board. (The Pilot endorsed all of the opponents of the eventual conservative victors.) Hensley and his allies have also been painted quite negatively in the pages of John Nagy’s paper.
In many systems, the superintendent and the school board chairman do the talking for the local schools. Why do we need another paid employee to liaise with the ONE drive-by media outlet who regularly covers our county?
If you thought Hensley, Bob Levy, and Philip Holmes have made school board meetings, um, “fun”, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
I cannot believe that David Hensley is a former Marine officer because he lacks the discretion, dignity, respect and the manliness expected of a career military person. .Not only is he an election denier except for those he promotes, he does not speak for school policy until his crew is sworn in next month.. This is non news just fake news.
There were a number of solid conservatives elected to school boards around the state this year. What is needed is an association of conservative school board members in counties around the state so they can share problems and solutions between counties. The school bureaucracy and the teachers unions coordinate with each other, and conservative school board members should do so as well. Maybe Mr. Hensley would be a good person to lead that.
“Equity” is just an Orwellian term for Marxist collectivism and should be banished from schools.
Should you like to assist me in doing that?
I would be glad to if I had a way to get in touch with you.
David@DavidHensley.com
Congrats to David Hensley and to Moore County for finally securing the opportunity to focus on achievement and growth in Moore County schools. I doubt we will be seeing any mask mandates or lockdowns again there in conservative country. Things look promising in Lee County as well, where two of the hooligans masking Lee County kids and locking them out of schools during the 2020 and 2021 school years were booted from office in favor of several liberty loving advocates. Looks as if Sherry-Lynn Womack is finally getting some horsepower to work with in pulling the Lee County Public Schools out of the death spiral they’ve been in for nine years.