The school board AND The Tale of The Tape
The advent of digital media has been a great thing for our culture. It’s been a big help — almost a savior — for suspects and cops alike during traffic stops and other criminal justice interactions. It’s been a great help in holding lying politicians’ feet to the fire. It’s tough to deny saying something when we can all point to video of you saying it.
We’re betting Moore County Board of Education vice-chairman Shannon Davis wishes digital video did not exist. Madame Davis was first elected to the board as part of a conservative, power-to-the-parents ticket. That ticket won convincingly and took a 6-1 majority on the board.
It didn’t take long for Madame Davis to decide her best move was to do whatever the superintendent wants – no questions asked. Oversight — being the eyes and ears of the voters and taxpayers – be damned.
(Please deny this, Shannon. You are on tape doing a lot of talking.)
Well, another round of elections has passed. The conservative majority dropped down to 4-3 from 6-1. Madame Davis changed sides and got rewarded with the worthless vice chairman post.
The new board is now embroiled in a controversy over — all things — book reports. The old 6-1 majority approved a measure requiring students complete a minimal number of book reports in order to graduate.
The demons and howler monkeys on the left and, more specifically, within the public school establishment screamed bloody murder. MICROMANAGEMENT, they hollered. (Never mind all the DEI and Marxist-Leninist-Black Lives Matter-LGBTQXYZ nonsense that has been getting pushed on our kids via the public school bureaucracy.)
The superintendent was vehemently opposed to book reports. So, Davis decided she would be too.
This brings us to a recent Tweet from a local conservative watchdog group. The tweet provided snippets of video from the book report repeal debate.
Submission: Who’s telling the truth? Let’s take a look at the evidence. ?
Start at the top left of the video collection and work your way clock-wise. (Remember to un-mute each video. Muted is the default setting.) Video ONE features a taxpayer during the public comment section of a recent school board meeting. The taxpayer alleges Davis fabricated a story about a veteran teacher having a nervous breakdown in front of her about having to assign book reports.
Video TWO features Davis denying that she ever told that story — and even throwing in a few Scripture quotes to try and shame the taxpayer for daring to bring this up.
Keep moving clockwise to Video THREE. THAT video features footage of Davis telling the exact story the taxpayer said she did — and she denied telling in video TWO.
Ain’t digital video grand?
This stuff isn’t just in Moore County. Our conservative school board revolution movement fell flat too.
Conservatives running for school boards need to remember 1) that the superintendent will almost certainly be your enemy, and 2) the superintendent is your employee, NOT your boss. Superintendents routinely toe the woke education establishment line and get their panties in a twist when anything is proposed that does not fit that agenda.
The reason superintendents do this is the career path of superintendents. Their path upward to more prestigious and better paying superintendent jobs is to move to bigger systems. Since historically, the bigger systems have been more liberal, they do not want anything that looks conservative on their resume or that can be found by anyone researching their career.. What is needed for school boards are strong individuals who understand they will not be the superintendent’s buddy if they are going to faithfully serve the public, and there will be times they are going to have to remind the superintendent forcefully that he/she is employee and they are the elected policymakers. Anyone without the backbone to do that should not be serving on a school board.
Those who brownnose their local superintendent ought to be run out of office on a rail. They are a big part of the problem in education. This woman clearly fills those shoes. Superintendents never really give a damn about any school system, its students, or its parents. All they ever really care about is building their resume for that next job.