She could have said this many times before and more loudly within the state before this article. And while she may not want to openly go against her party’s nominee because of “politics” and partisan loyalty, if she truly was someone who had our state public school system’s best interest in mind, Catherine Truitt would actively and publicly be telling people to vote for Mo Green as North Carolina’s State Superintendent instead of someone who has a “complete lack of understanding.”

In an interview with Education Week, Truitt said she was surprised by the outcome of the March 5 primary, in which Morrow earned 52 percent of the vote to Truitt’s 47 percent.

“In the few opportunities that I was actually sharing space with her in a panel or debate, I was shocked by her complete lack of understanding of how public schools function and what the job of state superintendent is,” Truitt said.

“In the few opportunities that I was actually sharing space with her in a panel or debate, I was shocked by her complete lack of understanding of how public schools function and what the job of state superintendent is.”

Catherine Truitt about Michele Morrow

Here’s more from that article:

Morrow’s campaign did not respond to a list of questions from Education Week.

On her campaign website, Morrow claims that North Carolina schools teach “one-sided lessons portraying America as a racist and oppressive nation,” that the North Carolina Association of Educators—a state affiliate of the National Education Association—“forced school closures during COVID-19,” and that “in some schools, parents are kept in the dark about medical treatments.” If elected, Morrow has said she would support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and a state constitutional amendment to eliminate the North Carolina board of education.

Morrow characterizes her experience teaching her own children through homeschool as a major qualification for the superintendent role, in which she would oversees the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and all 115 public school districts in the state. On her website, she said she would invest in intensive math tutoring programs as a way to bring homeschool experiences to public school students.