For Michele Morrow to post on “X” an over-fawning appreciation to public school teachers less than two weeks before the election when she has a verified history of denigrating public schools and those who work in them is beyond hubris.

It’s insulting. Why? Because we know what she has said in the past. The recent past.

The candidate who calls for civility and hope is also the person who called for public executions. The person who wants to lead public schools called them “socialist indoctrination centers.”

So when I see a post such as this:

I remember.

We teachers have Morrow’s older tweets. We have seen many of her videos commenting on issues and read the many exposes in online periodicals that verify each other revealing Morrow as a candidate trying change her profile to be more appealing to the public.

Such as this one:

So, when I see this “Shoutout to teachers” tweet from Michele Morrow, I hear between the empty lines things she has said in the past that totally contradict the facade she tries to convey.

What I hear is:

“Shoutout to all the incredible school teachers in North Carolina!“

In the rare instances she wrote about education, she portrayed public schools as “the indoctrination army of the socialist dems.”

“Your dedication, passion, and commitment to our students inspire us every day.“

… Morrow’s later assertion that students with special needs weren’t sufficiently separated from other children and were inhibiting “healthy competition.”

“When our scholastics are declining, when we have children that cannot read, write or do math, and yet we are promoting over and over again that we must discuss with them how they feel about things, and culturally that the United States is systemically racist, and we’re telling teachers that they have to apologize for their whiteness, they need to get to the depths of who they are and and apologize for their white privilege, and we need to put people into homogenous groups by either the color of your skin or by who you are attracted to or by, you know, what your culture is, which is what is happening in our schools, then that tells me that the the goal is not the individual,”

“Thank you for shaping the future!“

 …there’s a “radical agenda” in public schools that is “poisoning our children’s minds and keeping them from getting a good education.”

We want to say, “Thank You!” to every individual who continues caring long after school lets out, and even sacrifices their time and often their own money to ensure that our students reach their potential.

High school students read the questions—some directed at both candidates, some at just one. “Do you believe that the public school system is a socialist indoctrination program, as you’ve publicly said?” one asked Morrow.

She pressed her lips together, then raised the microphone. “Yep, I do.” 

“#ThankATeacher #NCTeachers #EducationMatters #MicheleMorrowForChange“

“I prefer a Pay Per View of him in front of the firing squad,” she wrote in a tweet from May 2020, responding to a user sharing a conspiracy theory who suggested sending Obama to prison at Guantanamo Bay. “I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death.”

“Thank you, Proud Boys.”

“Time to end teacher’s unions.”