School board using your tax dollars to fight against our Second Amendment rights | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This article originally appeared in the Beaufort Observer.

    Grassroots North Carolina is denouncing the use of tax dollars to lobby against your Second Amendment rights. But the worst of it is that those tax dollars are being taken away for school children in Beaufort County and every other county in the state. Here's how it works.

    School boards join the N. C. School Board's Association, using in most cases, money appropriated by the County Commissioners (local funds). The NSBA then forms a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation which lobbies for various causes the school board leaders deem worthy of support.

    One of those targets is the recently enacted law that allows school employees to have weapons in their locked vehicles while they are parked on campus. Note that the law does not allow them to take the guns out of the car, only that they can remain locked in the car so the employee will have access if needed for self-defense while driving to and from work. Thus, the school boards group intends to render school employees defenseless while commuting to work.

    Here's how GRNC breaks it down:

    Since Governor Pat McCrory signed HB 937 into law, the North Carolina School Board Association has been touting its newly formed North Carolina School Board's Action Center (NCSBAC), a new 501(c)(4) organization designed to "strengthen local school board advocacy efforts". The group receives its funding from individual county school boards through the collection of property taxes. Among their stated primary objectives is to advocate for the repeal of NCGS 14-269.2, which recently granted law-abiding North Carolinian's with limited campus carry provisions.

    That's right, the NCSBAC is devising a scheme to misappropriate tax dollars collected for education purposes to fund their anti-gun agenda! The brainchild of Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board Vice-Chairman Tim Morgan and political director Leanne Winner, who has been crisscrossing the state spewing her propaganda during district-wide legislative reviews, has made the organization's intentions clear: to attack the limited Campus Carry provisions which go into effect on October 1st.

    Specifically, she has advised local school board members that "NCGS 14.269.2 is a safety concern for public schools". She repeatedly and mockingly states that the reason for allowing concealed carry permit holders to retain their guns in a locked car was to provide them with the opportunity to "save the day" in the event of a school shooting. But, in her opinion, the real effect of the legislation was to create a situation where adults angry over the outcome of a high school football game could settle their disputes by "shooting it out in the parking lots". Winner goes on to say that NCSBA will use their 501(c)(4) organization to repeal this provision of NC GS 14-269.2.

    Enough is enough!

    While the continued economic downward turn is forcing teacher layoffs and reduced funding to schools across the state, the notion that what little funds remain be spent on pressing a personal political agenda becomes all the more incredulous. Our tax dollars can be utilized in a multitude of more efficient ways to raise and maintain the educational standards of our children than to have them diverted into such pet projects filled with outright anti-gun propaganda.

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    Commentary

    We have solicited a comment from Beaufort County Schools officials and we will update this article with that comment when received.

    There are some reports that some school boards across the state have refused to join the NCSBAC. We don't think that is sufficient. As long as the NCSBA is supporting the NCSBAC with material support it is the same as taking money that could otherwise be used for our students by reducing the NCSBA dues. The fact that the NCSBAC is a separate 501(c)(4) is a distinction without a difference, if for no other reason than the same cast of characters is involved and they are trading on the same name.

    Our school board should demand that the NCSBA divorce itself completely and totally from this 501(c)(4) and refuse to allow its staff to be associated with it or its name to be used or it should drop its membership.