Funny that Michele Morrow continues to “care” about the teachers in NC public schools that she never wanted her own kids to be around in the first place. Having seen her earlier posts from a deleted account, it just makes this recent tweet seem nothing more than sanitized bullsh*t. Furthermore, trying to capitalize off an incident involving a teacher being assaulted at school for electioneering purposes begs her to explain some of her earlier statements about public education. “It’s time to treat teachers like the professionals they are. As superintendent, my top priority is to restore civil ..read more

Think of all of the factors that affect how well public schools can operate. Now take all of those factors and divide them up by who is responsible for them: elected officials and teachers. Here is the distribution: Actually there is one under the teachers column. If you want to blame teachers for the current status of public education, then you are blaming the wrong people. If anything, teachers and other educators in our public schools are the ones keeping our schools working ..read more

Funny that Michele Morrow continues to “care” about the teachers in NC public schools that she never wanted her own kids to be around in the first place. Having seen her earlier posts from a deleted account, it just makes this recent tweet seem nothing more than sanitized bullsh*t. Furthermore, trying to capitalize off an incident involving a teacher being assaulted at school for electioneering purposes begs her to explain some of her earlier statements about public education. “It’s time to treat teachers like the professionals they are. As superintendent, my top priority is to restore civil ..read more

What happened yesterday at a high school in my district should shock all people. But what should shock people even more is that this is becoming a more and more common occurrence in which students physically confront educators and school officials who are performing their duties. A video of the incident went viral almost immediately. Students at my school were viewing it by the end of the school day and sharing with others. Posts about it on social media were almost as immediate. And then many people weighed in with both skewed and open-minded comments. Of course, it can be seized upon for el ..read more

Many have asked me over the years if a teacher can be a school board member and still be in the classroom. At least in my LEA, one cannot. Many teachers over the years have run for positions on the school board, but each has had to stipulate that he/she would step away from the classroom to serve. That should not be the case. If anything, CRT hoaxes, indoctrination witch hunts, and other conspiracy theories have shown that many school boards are not really listened to teachers. People can say that a teacher is too involved in the school system to view it from different angles and through diver ..read more

The idiom “thinking outside the box” is commonly used. It’s safe to say that most people have the same idea about what it means. Merriam-Webster defines it as such: And then there was an expose of Michele Morrow that appeared last week from The Daily Haymaker, a conservative outlet, that seems to be trying to soften the image that Morrow has built for herself through a history of ideas and views that certainly are not “controlled by rules and tradition.” On The Daily Haymaker site is a “blog roll” with links to other outlets that carry the same ideology and ideas as TDH. They include Breitba ..read more

It was not too long ago that some in Raleigh entertained legislation to arm teachers with guns inside of classrooms. And if you are paying attention to what is happening in Tennessee, that idea is getting traction in heavily red areas that want to pour more money into unregulated vouchers. And here’s another ill conceived idea rooted in puritanical paranoia coming from someone who has no concept of being in a public school classroom. This is a woman who has espoused QAnon related conspiracy theories. Want to HEAR Michele talk about adrenochrome? We dusted this off out of the archive just so ..read more

North Carolina has over 7400 fewer teacher assistants than it did over a decade ago. Let me repeat: North Carolina has over 7400 fewer teacher assistants than it over ten years ago. When study after study published by leading education scholars and education historians preach that reaching students early in their academic lives is most crucial for success in high school and life, our General Assembly  actually promoted one of the largest layoffs in state history in a highly needed area. As a voter, I am disappointed that the last six years with this GOP-led NCGA has fostered a calcul ..read more

Say in 2008, a school district had 1000 students in its school system and spent 10 million dollars in its budget to educate them. That’s a 10,000 per pupil expenditure. Now in 2024, that same district has 1500 students and the school system is spending 11.5 million to educate them. That district is spending more total dollars now than in 2008 on education, but the per-pupil expenditure has gone down –  significantly to over 2300 dollars per student or 23 percent. What many in Raleigh want to pat themselves on the backs about is that we as a state are spending more on education than ever b ..read more

Actually, he doesn’t. He wants to give every family that applied for a voucher tax payer money no matter their income to send their kids to private schools at the expense of the state’s public school system. Look at Public Schools First of North Carolina’s report on the application process for vouchers to be used next school year. PSFNC’s analysis of the data is spot-on. Using data from NCSEAA reported on March 5, the percentage of applicants by tier shows that fewer than half (45%) are in Tier 1 and Tier 2. The maximum allowable income for Tier 2 eligibility ..read more