Tag Archives: North Carolina

Zero Tolerance Is Literally For The Little People

Posted on October 17, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

In my own state of NC, we see that Zero Tolerance policies only apply to the Little People – the students. WRAL is reporting that an “employee” of Wayne county schools donned a black mask and carried a fake gun into a classroom as part of a “citizenship enrichment lesson”.

I’d like to know what the definition of “citizenship enrichment lesson” is at this school. Is it a citizenship lesson similar to the recent one scrapping parts of the Constitution? Maybe a better awareness of one’s surroundings might be defending oneself against rape at school. Also, why WRAL is calling this person simply an “employee”? Last time I checked, people who worked in classrooms in schools were called Teachers. Maybe this person isn’t the actual teacher but an administrator or other position? We don’t know, the school won’t say.

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Apex Town Council Race: The Two Women With Moral Monday Ties

Posted on October 16, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Wake up Apex, you’re being invaded by two women who have participated in the Moral Monday mockery of NC voters. Both have ties to the very Left leaning NC Justice Center (founder of Blueprint NC) and both have been to Moral Monday, although only one was arrested in front of her twin four year-olds. Continue reading →

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News & Record’s Statist Response To Home Schooling Searches

Posted on October 16, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

I was under the weather and out of action yesterday but perhaps might have rallied to respond to this article at the News and Record had I seen it: Home school inspections would intrude on privacy?

A day ago, the Lt. Governor’s office sent out press releases alerting the public that NDPE (Division of Non-Public Education) might be thinking about bringing back random spot inspections and searches of home schools. NDPE and the Lt. Governor’s office then issued a joint statement saying such inspections would not happen.

The article, written by Doug Clark, seems to take aim at the Lt. Governor for advocating the privacy rights of home schoolers. The article reports the facts of the case in the first couple of paragraphs, then it turns a bit statist sounding. From the article with emphasis added: Continue reading →

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UPDATED – Homeschools Being Subjected To Random Inspections?

Posted on October 14, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

Are homeschools in North Carolina going to be subjected to random searches? It looks like the NDPE (Division of Non-Public Education) might be resuming just such a practice. I’ve written before that we’d be seeing homeschools come under more scrutiny. Common Core is becoming wildly unpopular and widely criticized, so could this be the start of a crackdown of parents trying to flee it?

Via press release from the Lt. Governor’s office: Continue reading →

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#ShutUppery and the Drums of #WAR

Posted on September 18, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

So, #ShutUppery took an ugly turn and this happened to me:

Who’s a ‘Bully,’ @GregFlynn? Democrat Operative Targets North Carolina Mom : The Other McCain Continue reading →

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PPP Flawed Methodology Not A Bug, But A Feature?

Posted on September 14, 2013 by A.P. Dillon

In my travels this morning, I spied an article at New Republic about Public Policy Polling entitled, There’s Something Wrong With America’s Premier Liberal Pollster – The problem with PPP’s methodology. The article points out that PPP has been deleting questions to avoid criticism, following no consistent methodology, bad sampling and, in essence, weighting questions to get the results they like.
Excerpts with emphasis added:

After examining PPP’s polls from 2012 and conducting a lengthy exchange with PPP’s director, I’ve found that PPP withheld controversial elements of its methodology, to the extent it even has one, and treated its data inconsistently….. Continue reading →

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