Below are screenshots from the front page of the Winston-Salem Journal from just this past week. One week. Seven editions. Bonuses for employees are not going to solve a damn thing until this NCGA starts funding schools as they should. When more guns have been found in our schools than there are social workers in … Continue reading Pornography, Parent Disturbances, Loaded Guns, Shootings, COVID, Witch Hunts & Politics – Not The Way To Recruit Educators

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U.S. News & World Report is probably most well-known for its rankings of colleges and universities. It's a rather fragile system for ranking. Malcolm Gladwell in his latest season of the podcast Revisionist History deals with the parameters and variables used in the ranking system and shows its drastic shortcomings. Whether you agree with Gladwell's … Continue reading Now U.S. News & World Report Is Ranking K-8 Schools – And Stigmatizing Many Of Them

Jon Gruden resigned as a head coach of a privately held professional football team for egregiously harmful comments linked to him in emails before he took over his current post. North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won't even apologize for his homophobic, transphobic and hurtful comments as an elected official for much more publicly given … Continue reading This NFL Coach Resigned. Our Lt. Gov. Won’t Even Apologize.

Consider that we have the highest ranking republican doubling down on his stance on "filth." Furthermore, his political enablers in the NC General Assembly have refused to pass a budget in three years and have kept passing negative education reform after another. And there is this: McDonald's is giving more respect to teachers in one … Continue reading A Double-Down Vs. A Double Sausage & Egg McMuffin

For all of the pushback (and some support) that Lt. Mark Robinson has received for the now viral video of his talk at Asbury Baptist Church last June, releasing a video today to answer his critics on his choice of words and stance just confirms what most of us already know: Robinson is trying to … Continue reading 2 Minutes & 38 Seconds Of Unsubstantiated BS

Those words were spoken by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson this past summer talking at Asbury Baptist Church. You can read more about this newly uncovered controversy surrounding Robinson here. But this behavior is not new to Robinson. He has had multiple social media posts that display his homophobic and transphobic stances. He sits on the … Continue reading Pleading The “Filth”: This Man Sits On The State School Board

This week, the Washington Post printed a letter it uncovered which serves as a template for many fighting against mask mandates in public forums - forums like contrentious school board meetings. Here is a copy: The letter is full of links to other material to "use" in confronting public officials. Then this letter from the … Continue reading Two Letters & An SNL Skit: About School Board Meetings

The News & Observer editorial staff printed an op-ed this morning about the latest attack from the John Locke Foundation / Civitas Institute against the North Carolina Association of Educators. In what could be the toughest year to be a teacher in the state of North Carolina, the repeated antics from the John Locke Foundation … Continue reading The B***S*** Campaign Against NCAE And How It Is Hurting All Of North Carolina

From our State Treasurer back in 2017: “Did You Know? During 2017, the state spent $3.3 billion on medical and pharmacy benefits. At the same time, costs have increased 5 to 10 percent while funding for the Plan only saw a 4 percent increase. In addition, the state has a $34 billion unfunded liability for … Continue reading Open Enrollment Is Approaching – Remember That 2017 Letter From the State Treasurer to Teachers About the State Insurance Plan?