Three days of remote instruction. Two of those have seen major obstacles in accessing the online platform that enables that instruction. From today's N&O: For the second time this week, problems with a statewide computer system are preventing many North Carolina students and teachers from logging online for virtual classes. School districts across the state … Continue reading Still Not Willing To Take Responsibility: Mark Johnson, DPI, and Those “Technical Glitches”

Remember not too long ago when Mark Johnson bought 24,000 iPads with Read to Achieve money that was just laying around? From WRAL.com August of 2018: Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson announced the plan Tuesday morning, holding up an iPad for the media, the governor and other members of North Carolina’s Council of State. … Continue reading Remembering All Of Those iPads Mark Johnson Bought Amidst This Pandemic

From Dane West @DaneWestNC 72 of NC's 115 school districts. Add 54 charters. 72.1% of enrollment. With remote instruction. Due to a pandemic. And this is a strong possibility? Please vote in November.

Phil Berger owning Phil Berger. When schools that had remote instruction in place were unable to connect this morning to state networks, Berger took a swipe at the state board and could not have slapped himself in the face harder. Because it really it is his fault. In more than one way. Here's his tweet. … Continue reading Phil Berger’s “Self-Own” About His Tweet Concerning The First Day Of School

In Cherokee County, GA, school officials have closed down the campus of a third high school for a period of time due to the number of students and staff who have tested positive and have been asked to get tested and are quarantining. Cherokee County borders both Fulton and Cobb Counties. it is densely populated … Continue reading What Has Happened In This GA School System In Two Weeks

That restless night of sleep that I usually have the night before the first day of school? Been having those for a couple of weeks already this summer. That feeling of anxious anticipation during the week of pre-planning I usually get? That was replaced with a feeling of anxious uncertainty. It started weeks ago. Last … Continue reading Monday Might Be The Most @#$%^&* First Day Ever – But My Students Will Know I Want To Be Their Teacher

In an effort to politicize everything and try to salvage some sort of momentum in a failing race for governor, Dan Forest again did what he does best: show a complete lack of leadership ability and spend all of his energy blaming someone else. Forest recently lost a legal battle against Roy Cooper over the … Continue reading Why Lt. Gov. Dan Forest’s Comments About Virtual Charters In NC Had Nothing To Do With Helping Students

Remember who this person is and what office she held under Governor PAt McCrory? That's Aldona Wos, the former head of NC's DHHS. Indy Week from exactly five years ago said it best. History will record that Aldona Wos, a Greensboro physician, socialite and Republican fundraiser, was secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human … Continue reading Hey NC! Remember This Lady? Her Husband Is Destroying The USPS

https://files.nc.gov/ncoshr/documents/files/Longevity_Pay_Policy.pdf In the long session of 2014, the NC General Assembly raised salaries for teachers in certain experience brackets that allowed them to say that an “average” salary for teachers was increased by over 7%. They called it a “historic raise.” However, if you divided the amount of money used in these “historic” raises by … Continue reading August of 2014 – That’s When I Last Received Longevity Pay For Being A Public School Teacher

Yesterday afternoon for the first time, a black woman woman was selected to be on the major ticket for a national election. Yesterday afternoon for the first time, a South Asian woman was selected to be on the major ticket for a national election. Yesterday afternoon for the first time, a graduate of a Historically … Continue reading The Selection Of Kamala Harris For VP Should Remind NC To Extend The Teacher Fellows Program To All Our HBCU’s