How Did I Get On This Campaign Email List?

Spam emails, scam PAC emails, and campaign emails – not really a huge difference these days.  We all try to keep our inboxes free of the junk but during campaign season, it can be harder than usual, especially when you find yourself receiving an email from a candidate you’ve never heard of.

That happened to me earlier this year.

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Students ‘Walked Out’ As NC School Threats Continue

School threats are the new “Me Too” and still going on at a steady rate in North Carolina despite the recent ‘walk out’. I’ve been keeping track of school threats for the last month or so.

Here’s the latest set of NC school threats, one of which ironically kept students from participating in the ‘walk out’.  Also, stay with me as I cover Roy Cooper’s latest stunt.

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Liberal Activism Alive and Well In Schools As NC Students ‘Walk Out’

Liberal Activism is alive and well in our schools. Yesterday was the national “walk out” protesting gun violence in schools.

I collected a lot of tweets from around the state, which I include at the end of this article. First, I’d like to share a few that stuck out both in NC and elsewhere.

Instead of ‘walking up’ to a fellow classmate suffering from bullying, NC students in various K-12 schools walked out.

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About That NC Educator Survey On Guns

At the beginning of March, the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) sent out its monthly educator survey. March’s survey had two questions, exclusively on guns in the classroom.

This survey was fundamentally flawed from the get-go, as the link to the survey was open to more than just educators. In addition, anyone using an incognito web window could take the survey as many times as they wanted.

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ICYMI – Three More School Threats In NC Last Week

In case you missed it, the NC school threat “me too” wave continued with three more reports made last week.

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Vox Teacher Pay Article Relies On Old and Unweighted Union Data

The last place anyone should be looking for facts is at Vox.

Case in point, their latest on ‘teacher pay’ which is meant to stir up more teacher strikes using outdated and unweighted data sets from… wait for it… one of the largest teacher unions in the country.

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