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January 2, 2017 at 9:51 am
A dozen years ago, it seemed that North Carolina public education was striving to be the best in the southeast. Half a decade ago under the new regime, it was more like “almost as good as Mississippi is plenty good for us.” As more money trickled in and that position became untenable, sporadic teacher raises were given while teacher job protections were eroded. Meanwhile, we were flooded with campaign commercials suggesting that teachers have never had it better.
January 2, 2017 at 2:45 pm
For more than a dozen or so years.
NC since the 1930s was considered the most progressive Southern state. Even while still segregated and segregationist, it managed to make the rest of the South look Neanderthal. Now they’ve pitched that all over.
Really, the descent of the Republican Party into a some sort of creationist “place your hands on top of your television set and send me all your money” gospel of greed and cruelty is most amazing. If Ev Dirksen came back from his grave, he would be appalled.
The sadism is striking: it’s the part of mean for the sake of mean.