After two woke curricula were presented to the Beaufort County School Board, one in social studies and one in math, the three conservative school board members launched an effort to reform the curriculum process. One objective was bringing in genuine parent involvment in the process and the other was to give board members more involvement in choosing the curriculum. It was always an uphill process due to the six board members who are little more than rubberstamps for superintendant, Matthew Cheeseman, a California liberal.
In the end, it was Cheeseman who read off what he would accept, gutting much of what the conservative board members had tried to do. Cheeseman's language was likely either written or influenced by the Durham liberal Democrat activist who Cheeseman had brought in as the school board attorney.
A big thing lost was meaningful parent involvement in the curriculum process. This is important because recently polling shows 71% of North Carolina parents are concerned about political indoctrination of their children in the public schools.
Under the Cheeseman language, there will be a window dressing of parents chosen and directed by school administrators as part of the curriculum committee. The original draft had called for a community standards committee of one parent from each school board district chosen by the board to give their input on whether a proposed curriculum met local community standards.
Teaching of cursive writing, multiplication tables, and America's founding documents and founding fathers was also cut by Cheeseman. When the process started the curriculum policy had a weak reference to founding documents, but even that has now been deleted. The conservative board members had tried to insert robust language on teaching each of these things.
Cheeseman also deleted even a general reference to curriulum respecting local community standards. Instead, he inserted strong language to demand adherence to the standards of the ultra-liberal state school board and DPI, who are the sources of the very political indoctrination opposed by parents.
The new curriculum policy did make a few steps forward. The language from the conservatives that allows the board to have approval of the curriculum committee members, give direction to the curriculum committee, and to be given three proposals to consider instead of a single proposal to rubberstamp as the process had worked was allowed by Cheeseman.
Another advance that was less than desired was in keeping the board informed on what the curriculum development committee was doing. Cheeseman also rewrote that language to make a central office staff member responsible for that, but the central office staff member designated has a history of not being forthcoming with the school board. That staff member had falsely told the school board that the recommended Savvas woke social studies curriculum was the only one approved by DPI. He also falsely told the school board that the Bridges math curriculum was "not Common Core" only to have to reverse himself at the next meeting after board members and community members had researched it and found out that it was Common Core.
The problem with the state school board was illustrated a couple of years ago when its ultra-liberal majority appointed by Gov. Cooper rammed through a woke state social studies curriculum. This was vigorously and vocally opposed by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and State Treasurer Dale Folwell, who serve on the state school board by virtue of their offices, but they were outvoted by Cooper's ultra-liberals. It is that woke agenda that Cheeseman demands we follow.
This all adds up to a crying need to replace Cheeseman's flunkies on the school board this November and get some new members who will stand up for parents and our local community.
Why would our elected school board members surrender this much power to the likes of Cheeseman? Rubverstamps like T.W. Allen need to GO.
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So, Cheeseman does not want kids taught about our founding fathers and founding documents. Or multiplication tables or cursive writing. We need to ship him back to California where he belongs, not running our schools! Too bad we can't send his minions T.W. Allen, Eltha Booth, and Mack Hodges with him, but at least we can vote those un-American phonies out of office. Our schools are in the mess they are because of liberal bureaucrats like Cheeseman and suck-up school board members like Allen, Booth, and Hodges.
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I have been following this saga for a while and regret that the effort did not get any farther, but with that clique of Cheeseman brown nosers on the board, it was always likely.
Van Zant is right about how silly that argument by Cheeseman and his sock puppets was. Teachers are going to be a lot more imtimidated by administrators, especially a control freak like Cheeseman and anyone working for him, than a school board member. The real concern of that group was probably that the presence of a school board member may have lessened Cheeseman's ability to pressure the committee to get what he wanted. But they have made silly excuses all along to thwart curriculum reform. Another was that Durham shyster whining about the parents community standard committee having to meet Open Meetings standards. Duh! All government bodies have to do that and it is not a big deal at all. It was nothing but a silly excuse to block public input. I can understand the liberal Democrats like Mac Hodges and Eltha Booth eating out of Cheeseman's hand. They are all peas in a lefty pod. What is appalling is RINO T.W. Allen being Cheeseman's sock puppet. If T.W. Allen wants to function like a Democrat, why is he not honest enough to actually register as a Democrat? If Cheeseman says "jump", Allen asks "How high?" |
Someone help me with the rules. I understand that the State DPE requires that the students meet end-of-grade testing. The Curriculum is left up to the School Board. The Board would ask for professional input from the Superintendent but he does not make the final decision on the Curriculum. Based on the near-filing grades of eight of our thirteen schools, it looks like we need to take a good look at the the board and the administration.
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