Category Archives: EDUCATION

Another Common Core Potemkin Village Exposed By A “Parent”

Posted on June 18, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Earlier this week the NC Common Core commission or Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) met and allowed for parents to comment.  See my earlier article, NC Common Core #ASRC June Meeting Update for reference. In my prior article I mentioned a particular “parent” … Continue reading →

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Wake Cty Hires 8 New Principals

Posted on June 18, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

News and Observer is reporting the hiring (or shifting around of) of 8 new principals in Wake county. Four are interim appointments.
Also, here come higher taxes — the original $1.7 billion dollar proposed Wake county schools budget was passed by the Wake County Commissioners at a lower total of $1.1 billion. Continue reading →

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‘Kite Runner’ Concerns Fall On Deaf Ears In Buncombe

Posted on June 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

You can’t say that Lisa Baldwin hasn’t fought the good fight over the use of The Kite Runner, which includes graphic homosexual rape scenes, suicide and violent beatings, in her child’s Buncombe county school. Continue reading →

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School Employees Resigned or Did They Intend Not To Return… Back in March?

Posted on June 16, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Local media outlets are reporting that teacher Omar Currie and Assistant Principal Goodhand have resigned from Efland Cheeks Elementary over the reading of a Gay Fairy Tale to 8 and 9 year old Third graders.

But did they really resign? Sources tell me otherwise. Continue reading →

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NC Common Core #ASRC June Meeting Update

Posted on June 16, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Yesterday was the May meeting of the Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC), which is tasked at reviewing the Common Core standards in order to give replacement recommendations to the State Board of Education at the end of this year. Continue reading →

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Durham Academy: “I Don’t Say” Anything About The First Amendment

Posted on June 15, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Folks, in this country we are blessed with free speech under the First Amendment.
At Durham Academy, they seem to have forgotten about the concept of speaking one’s mind or being able to express oneself using a simple turn of phrase, like ‘boys will be boys. Continue reading →

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