We are pushing to get a state cookie.

And an official fried apple pie festival.

Hard to fathom eating cookies or a fried apple pie without requiring something to drink in our public schools.

Might as well make the red herring the official state bird. Why? Because it is honored so much in Raleigh.

Supt. Catherine Truitt’s recent public relations escapade with the “Protect Our Students Act” is nothing more than a red herring. Sure, make penalties tougher for something that is already illegal.

Because it is diverting attention away from this: