“It’s important, experience. But I think one of my greatest qualifications is that I have no experience in a failing system that chooses to continue to fund failures and only wants to get more money for those people at the top that are the bureaucrats like my opponent who’s gotten wealthy and powerful off the backs of our students and our teachers.” – Michele Morrow in debate at Southern Pines on October 14th, 2024.

Here’s the video of that debate.

WFAE reported about that debate on public safety and funding summarizing Morrow as someone who “positioned herself as an outsider working against a school system she says is serving bureaucrats and failing students.”

This post will not get into the argument that schools are failing when NC has routinely been ranked in the last rung of states in school funding and still has not begun to honor the LEANDRO decision. For a woman who has never served in public schools or sent her children to our public schools to call the “system” that well over 4 out of 5 families send their children a failing system is not the hallmark of an informed citizen.

Of course she is an “outsider.” But she is not the “outsider” working against a system.

She’s an “outsider” to reality.

Who the hell gets rich serving in North Carolina’s public schools?

Who are the bureaucrats she is talking about?

Maybe she is referring to all of the people who have all of a sudden been flashing massive amounts of money since they became public education leaders in North Carolina which would be (checks notes)… no one.

For a woman who lives in one of the highest value real estate markets in the entire state and has never served in public school here in North Carolina in any capacity to claim that people got into education for the money is beyond laughable.

It is deliberately ignorant.