Astounded By Watching School Board Meeting
Dear Editor,
Did you know you can view the school board meetings online?
I watched the June 17 meeting and was astounded that the policy chair asked to have a reconsideration of a vote for a policy her committee presented a month earlier! She had voted against it on June 10 but a week later she claimed she didn’t understand what she was voting for. The majority of the board allowed a new vote even with one member absent and one on a distracting remote call. The policy committee chair changed her vote, thereby passing the new outrageous fiscal policy where the superintendent may spend, in some cases, up to $500,000 without board approval.
It’s taxpayer money they’re talking about, whether it’s from a federal grant or our property taxes, and one superintendent should not have such vast financial power. Something is very wrong with this picture and the board members who voted for the new policy.
The online meeting link can be found below. The meeting is quite long but you can scroll through in small increments. Part of the meeting introduced new protocol to allow a limited number of the public to attend meetings in July after a 15-month ban on parents’ presence. Yes, finally, GCS will let a few taxpayers in to witness their meetings like countless other school boards in the country have been doing for a while without harm. Attendees will have to be masked, just like the poor kids in school, and be measured with a thermometer, two actions which have been proved by science to be unnecessary to prevent spread of the Chinese virus, but just makes the powerful feel good about themselves.
Make sure you watch the closing comments from each board member at the meeting. Their agenda is very telling.
GCS Board of Education Meeting 06/17/2021
Lynn Henson
Pitiful
The school board is again led by an incompetent super who tells the board what to do. Public schools are a disgrace by hey we can always blame it all on Covid. Also should someone be a board chair or even a member when they don’t have a clue what they are voting on?
There are sources to notify of the incompetent actions taken by ‘civilians’ as to spending our taxpayer monies. Write to your representatives in NC legislature and Wash DC representing NC. Just do it, numbers matter when complaining about theft from those less educated to laws “Handling Other Peoples Money”. Theft it is when practiced with abandon. Big Period.
Parents should challenge teachers and School Board Members who are brainwashing their children! Contact your city and state legislature!
Jay
Yes, and those same parents should remove their children from the school.
I assure you, kids are “brainwashed” at home in far more extreme ways than when they are learning in the classroom that North Carolina was a slave state and mRNA vaccines work differently than pathogen-based vaccines of 80+ years ago and can be made more rapidly and effective than the previous technology.
Quit blaming a teacher or school for parents inadequacies at home.
We should all stand up and fight against the implementation of critical race theory in Guilford county schools. I realize the school board says it is not part of the K through 12 curriculum, but mark my word, they are trying to implement it as fast as they can. Stand up parents and grandparents and do not allow this to be shoved down the throat‘s of your children and grandchildren!!!
If you want to be the Superintendent of your kids education, there’s a system for that. It’s called homeschool. There, you can explain to your kids how the civil war had nothing to do with slavery, talk about the spring growth of the baby boomers like black veterans were afforded access to the same homes as white veterans, and pretend that America has always been perfect and only getting perfected. Bye Felicia.
Name, are you saying you are cool with one person holding the purse strings of a community organization? Homeschooling might well become the norm because parents are against wasteful spending and are also fed up with all the terrible behavioral disruptions which keep their kids from learning. Yet the school board voted to get rid of SROs and harsher punishments for misbehavior. Are you cool with that as well?
And since you mentioned it, the civil war was about slavery AND states’ rights because the federal government was taking advantage of the south. I hope CRT is banned everywhere and history lessons instead focus on who actually sold slaves in Africa, their own people! Only 6% ended up in the US and slaveowners included blacks, Indians and whites. The slaves who were freed here owe their lives to the stars and stripes, otherwise they may not have survived this far because the powerful Africans would have killed them off if they resisted being rounded up for slave trade. I’m against reparations but might consider it if perhaps African countries start shelling out compensation instead.
Amen
Hey Bill, can you explain to me what critical race theory actually is, how it’s being taught in schools, and what is so wrong with it? Thanks for the help!
William, it is just a theory and it’s being pushed by radicals to perpetuate victimhood for blacks because they are ‘so oppressed by whitey’. It’s an ideology which focuses only on race and is also mentioned in part of the 1619 project with claims our country was founded only to keep slavery going. It’s a farcical crime to teach kids. I bet you can find many articles on the RHINO archives as well as duck duck go.
The new definition of CRT is Creating Racial Tension. And they are already stirring it up in several homework assignments based on privileges and guilt, and oppressors and the oppressed.
Have you actually listened to the 1619 project?