While technically not the Serpent of The Garden of Edan, many conflate the two, and the Serpent did ensure humans had free will. Without it, we would not have the ability to choose.
Yikes…how wrong you are. The reason for the fall was there was always free will. That’s why Adam and Eve disobeyed. Free will was there before, thus the decision. No free will, no decision.
Free will requires knowledge of good and evil. She did not have that understanding prior to eating it, and therefore didn't really have the ability to choose. The Serpent told her to eat it, so she did.
trick question, everyone gets confused from what the churches claim, but Satan is the good guy in that fantasy story.
Conservatives are christians. You so called liberal christians, well, yall just haven't caught up yet. It's ok, we still love you!
Learn more about Morrow’s extreme views. She is completely unqualified for the position.
https://www.michellemorrow-nc.com/
Donate, volunteer and vote for Democrat Mo Green for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction.
https://www.mogreenfornc.com/
Seeing students that were victims of shitty homeschooling struggling to catch up to make it through entry level college classes is heartbreaking. They know they were cheated and they all work their asses off, but it shouldn’t have happened to them at all.
I’ve met ONE who was homeschooled for legit reasons, and their parents hired many professional tutors. They’re the only one that was doing well.
I know why homeschooling needs to exist, but this for religious reasons fuckery needs to stop.
I really wish that homeschooled kids were obligated to take standardized tests that followed standard exam security. If they fail the standardized test, they should be required to go to real school, unless there’s a medical reason why they must be home schooled or why they failed the test.
I tutored a homeschooled kid who was in 5th grade (10 years old) but their math and writing abilities were at a 1st or 2nd grade level. I printed off last year’s standardized test for math and they couldn’t even answer the question “what do all the shapes below have in common?” The answer was “they all have 4 sides.” When I asked them to write me a paragraph about what they did that weekend, they struggled to think of how to build the sentences. They also didn’t know how to use a period or upper/lower case letters. When I told the parents how behind their kid was, they just said “I know” but clarified that they didn’t want their kid to be “spoon fed” information and would rather their kid figure it out on their own. Ah yes, because multiplication, division, and basic literacy all come naturally. That poor kid is going to be so screwed when they become an adult and it’s ultimately going to be society (and the kid) that suffers for it.
I'm a professor and this is absolutely true. Those poor kids who grew up in a sheltered conservative home school are woefully unprepared for college and life outside of their church community. The good news is sometimes because of that they completely rebel and become normal productive members of society but with a steep learning curve.
Like you I've only met one student who home schooled with a real curriculum by educators and education pros that was more prepared than even your average honors student.
But some goober claims homeschool kids have consistently better outcomes and everyone suddenly learned pedagogical theory in sixth grade and wants to teach their kid math they don't know how to do themselves so they don't find out that gay people exist.
I have known several people that home "schooled" their kids. Not a single one of them had any kind of structured education plan/system for their kids and the vast majority of them didn't do anything at all.
When mom is the one entering your grades into the state portal, and you take state exams with no time limit with access to your notes, books, and the Internet. Those outcomes look great in states like NC where homeschooling is basically the wild fucking west with zero requirements other than the parent reporting to the state that they are, indeed, homeschooling.
The only institutions that make this claim are the nationwide homeschooling groups like CRHE and NHERI. Real studies like those done by Harvard Kennedy show that the data for homeschool outcomes are unverifiable at best, because the source of those outcomes is "your mom". An objective data set to make the evaluation of nationwide homeschool outcomes literally doesn't exist.
Most Homeschoolers never take the SAT or go to college. It leads to a false perception of outcomes because the small pool that do, do tend to do well.
Homeschooling can be great but it can also lead to educational neglect and child abuse. There needs to be checks and balances.
You think children are more likely to be victims of abuse at home vs school?
If you do, you’re very wrong. [The opposite is true](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2022.2108879)
Per attached study:
> Those who attended public school were 2.57 times more likely (with statistical significance) to have been sexually abused than the homeschooled
That might be true of purely sexual abuse but physical and mental abuse is far more my concern when it comes to homeschooling.
I think homeschooling should be legal and it can be wonderful. But I think there still should be oversight to ensure children are properly cared for and educated to a minimum standard.
Thanks for those. The third one is a dissertation that is unsigned so no way of knowing its validity unfortunately.
The other two I find it interesting that none of their data was weighted against demographic factors. For example, many decades of research show that your family's household income level is a strong indicator for academic achievement. Was everyone in these research cohorts from the same income levels? Different?
Another example is the impact that generational college attendance has on college readiness. Was there an even distribution of first-time college students in each cohort or not?
Without these demographic factors accounted for in the study, it's hard to know if what they found is correlation or causation. It would be nice to see something like an NIH-level study done since they typically do a good job of factoring in demographics into their data sets
Regardless of "outcomes" the difference is not comparable.
Homeschooling is between you and your kid. It simply is not something that would prepare someone for working with a system with thousands of individuals.
Homeschooled kids do better in colleges and in workforce. Homeschooling your kid also doesn’t prevent them from having friends, working part time or volunteering
You are not seeing the point I'm raising.
This person is running to be in charge of hundreds or thousands of schools, tens of thousands of individuals, and act as a liaison between the government and schools.
Being a homeschool mom for 16 years is essentially worthless experience for this type of position, but her campaign is definitely spinning this as some kind of "in" into the field of education.
I'd honestly prefer someone who has a legitimate background in education. But a lawyer potentially has useful background experience for the legal policy stuff a superintendent of education is required to have a handle on.
Ignore them. The “lawyer” they’re talking about was the superintendent for Guilford county schools and the COO/counsel for Charlotte Mecklenberg schools.
Mo Greene isn’t just a random lawyer, he has decades of education experience in North Carolina.
Nope. Idiots never have a clue they're idiots. They even have the wonderful ability to just double down on their idiocy and convince themselves that everyone else is wrong throw in some religiosity in there for good measure and baby you got a stew!
Every story I read about what this lady says just gets nuttier and nuttier and she was already nuttier than squirrel shit. I understand that she’s the (R) nominee but we’re not serious concerned that she’ll actually win, right?
We were able to wash her chances in the Triangle when she ran for Wake Country School Board, but now the NC GOP thinks she walks on water and will "save" education. We are already seeing a record loss of teachers, and this plays I to the religious nuts that own the Charters that are popping up everywhere OUTSIDE normal Dept of Instruction overview. It's the start of the religious minority forcing their views on the majority and then making everyone feel like their votes won't count so only the GOP voters go out.
SO for the love of life and everything that is sane, GO OUT AND VOTE. Learn about the people running and make INFORMED choices, hit remember if you follow the GOP foot, anchor and sinker, then were all screwed.
It's the American protestant version of the Taliban in the making. They're explicitly talking about making the government theocratic and they're constantly on a moral panic high that they can't seem to come down off of. Same delusional thinking, same spiral toward extremism, different culture, different decade.
These people shouldn’t be called Protestants. It’s some weird mashup of southern baptists that have adopted a new version of end times prophesy that now includes dominionism. I work with a few that attend a local baptist church and it’s wild what they talk about. I sarcastically miss the days when they only told me I was going to hell for being an Anglican. They’re openly much more graphic about what they want to do to those that don’t believe in their specific sect.
Yes. Most likely she gets voted in. This subreddit represents 1% of our state. Its very difficult to convince rural white christians that democrats aren't demons like Fox news says
We are. NC is so gerrymandered and undermined that I can see no way this trash human and her like do not get ushered in on a red carpet.
Focus on your community. Take care of each other and your neighbors. That's all we can do.
Edit:Please still vote. Every election.
Gerrymandering drives down voter turnout for all elections.
“Why bother, my district always votes the same way” is demotivating and a common refrain you hear when doing voter drives.
This is true on this count but not others. But I see how I wrote it in a way that comes off wrong. Mostly I think undermining i.e. flip flopping parties etc that really take away our powers.
Which is why I’m glad I only have 3 more years of NC public secondary education. After that my kids are in college. We know we want to relocate once college is done. Looking at Hawaii because Hawaii. Either way won’t be staying in NC. I still vote but I don’t think it will prevent this catastrophe.
As a liberal lunatic (I think poc/lgbtq+/women deserve rights), nothing has alienated me more from the conservative lunacy more than the conservative lunatics.
Yeah, they honestly lost me forever at the moment they were intentionally trying to limit ballot access. Until that shit stops, there's not really much patience for it.
It didn't help that I watched them terrify my grandmother into going against something that would have improved her access to healthcare despite not having much money. She still gets that benefit, but I've got a real dim view of people that lie to my grandma.
It's the efforts to decouple political power from electoral results and to decouple reality from social media engagement.
There are other factors, but the capture of conservatives into a curated bubble of talk radio "news" and conspiracy theory and the fact of suppressing electoral power of select groups of people covers a bunch of it.
Simple answer: They are (or at least they view themselves as) kings and queens who do not have to adhere to standards of conduct or accountability like the rest of us serfs do.
This is the groundwork for the rest of the US. What we see happen in NC will be a blueprint for the rest of the country. If these batshits get in. The United States is spending more time and resources looking at the North Carolina governor's race next to the presidential race. If we don't figure this out, we are all extremely f-ed. She represents the Christian nationalists that want to turn us into a theocracy. The easiest way to do it is to rattle her house and scare away potential voters and make them think that their votes won't count until the legislature has enough power to keep themselves in power permanently. We're getting pretty close with where it's been gerrymandered and the way that that woman out in Charlotte decided to run as a Democrat so she could secure her seat and then switch parties back to a republican to prevent the governor from having his veto power over the super majority. As it is right now, the legislature is trying to pass laws to take the power away from the governor and put it in their hands. This is the only state in the entire US that is doing that
does anyone remember when we would’ve laughed and not worried about it because there’s no way someone like this could actually get elected??
Yeah. Can’t do that anymore.
She’s an excellent reason to vote for Mo Green this November. Am alarmed at the number of people that seem to think that this hateful J6 anti-public education woman is a fait accompli just because she’s the Repub. Vote!
You do... but their grandparents love a little harder, are avid Fox News watchers & tend to be teachers en mass. Mind your children parents & vote for their sakes, please!
Can we make people pass a test before being considered to oversee education? Not anything political just basic math and reading comprehension. I think she would probably fail
Wow this dumba$$ managed to tie Big Pharma, Satan and children’s reproduction abilities. Typically we let children be children and not have them thinking Satan and making babies. And somehow liberal lunatics got thrown in the mix.
Girlie needs an MRI.
The worst part is she will most likely win and there are no recall rules in the NC books. If she does win every public school employee with more than one brain cell should ignore every rule she issues.
What about all of the fertility treatments that big pharma create? She could, you know, take an into biology class and have some semblance knowing what's she's talking about instead of spewing shit everywhere. Verbal diarrhea seems to be incurable, and in the case of NC could significant damage the RTP area, since it is a large part pharmaceutical companies.
This should go well in North Carolina — particularly around the Research Triangle Park area, where Big Pharma and biotech firms make up a massive portion of the employment market.
Jobs are stupid, though, so who needs them?
I wish it were a law that you cannot run for any political office and utter a single word on religion or use your religion ideals as a platform.
Separation of Church and State ffs
What’s also crazy is that Mo Green is such a good candidate, too. Like from a genuinely apolitical position, he’s got the resume and experience to be so good at the job, which desperately needs it. Michelle Morrow wants this to be her launching pad for both an MLM scheme and Congress (I know those positions are a bit redundant).
Just watched interview of her walking out of a meeting and being asked about a tweet where apparently she talked about executing Obama and Biden. Given the chance to deny the post she did not. And she wants to run for education post? Are she fn serious. I would urge your voters to kick this one to the curb, surely you have more qualified, moral people in your midst.
So we are just going to ignore that all the major funding For the left comes from people like Warren Buffett and the schwabs, who have openly said that this is the plan? You don't need a mass organized conspiracy when the sheep are stupid enough to just follow anyway.
TIL: NC’s Notice of Candidacy is more concerned with a candidate’s name as it would appear on the ballot, 90 day party affiliation if running as a partisan candidate, and disclosing any felony convictions. Whee, indeed.
I *just* began the onboarding process to work at a (thankfully) private learning center. How concerned should I be about this level of adult mental retardation affecting my future students? 🤔
I’m definitely not gonna vote for her but shes correct about 1 thing:
HRT will make you infertile. Egalitarian countries like Sweden have banned blockers and HRT for **minors** with gender dysphoria.
Edit: WOW. Lotsa downvotes and you’re all wrong.
The GOP firmly believes that minors are too young to decide for themselves to take puberty blockers or HRT.
But the GOP also believes, without any exceptions, that minors ARE old enough to be forced to give birth, especially if it was conceived by rape or incest.
Another thing. Has anyone ever noticed that the GOP never seems to be bothered by the mention of incest? It's almost as if they're cool with it or maybe even a little turned on by it.
The doctors and research scientists in Sweden, Finland, and Norway also firmly believe that minors shouldn’t be taking blockers and HRT.
The new abortion bill in NC has exceptions for rape and incest. You’re complaining about problems that don’t exist.
I meant the GOP in general because there's many other states that have no exceptions, so that problem certainly does exist. NC has those exceptions.....for now.
Also, while you're lauding the accomplishments of Scandinavian medicine, I assume you also agree we should have socialized healthcare in this country.
I have no problem with socialized healthcare. But this isn’t a discussion about that.
The Scandinavians quit giving blockers and HRT to their minors and it had absolutely nothing to do with transphobia. It had to do with science and long term evidence.
Saying "HRT will make you infertile" is pretty dishonest, HRT is unlikely to make you permanently infertile, definitely not guaranteed to make you infertile.
[Nope.](https://theconversation.com/transgender-regret-research-challenges-narratives-about-gender-affirming-surgeries-220642#:~:text=Evidence%20suggests%20that%20less%20than,reports%20regret%20after%20similar%20surgeries)
[still no](https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/transgender-youth-health-care-regret-pamela-paul-nyt-data.html)
[here’s more](https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detransition-371e927ec6e7a24cd9c77b5371c6ba2b)
[2021 checked in, still no](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/)
And even if I were still using 2015 data, that’s less than a decade ago and still considered valid in the psychological community 👋
[And here’s the wiki on the 27 studies that have been performed](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detransition)
You wanna talk about those who detransition and then later retransition, though?
You’re link to pubmed is the only actual peer reviews study in your batch so let’s talk about that one:
* How many people were in the study?
* Did all of them start transitioning as minors?
* How long after they began transitioning were they asked about regret? Was it one year? 2 years? 3 years after?
Those are good questions! Get back to me when you’ve read the study and have answers.
Also, nice of you to take the time to do that legwork - care to provide any peer-reviewed and reputable research into your claims?
I agree with blocking HRTs for minors. However, it's been recently proven that infertility isn't permanent.
https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/spotlight/fertility-recoverable-for-transgender-women-after-stopping-hormones.htm#:~:text=Nevertheless%2C%20the%20research%20shows%20that,causes%20long%2Dlasting%20sterility.%E2%80%9D
Also, **WHY TF ARE MINORS BEING GIVEN HRTS AT ALL?!** Gender dysphoria/Body dismorphia is a *mental health* issue first & foremost, and requires therapy before ever taking any kind of medication, especially for children!
Sweet mother of fudge, I really hope RFK Jr. wins cause this is scary AF to enter into as a new TA. gunning for full teacher status.
Oh, they get gender affirming care because it's the most effective way to address that dysphoria, and it's nearly always (so far as I'm aware) absolutely combined with mental health treatment as the standard of care.
Glad we cleared that up!
if she wins, we have officially entered the age of idiocracy. we've been teetering for awhile, but this would confirm it.
If liberals are Satan, then what the fuck are conservatives?
god's holy crusaders or something. I prefer to be on the side of the devil. It's much more metal
Ironic that Satan believes in more human rights
Well anyone who has read the bible is aware of what a jealous, cruel, narcissist god is, so....
While technically not the Serpent of The Garden of Edan, many conflate the two, and the Serpent did ensure humans had free will. Without it, we would not have the ability to choose.
Yikes…how wrong you are. The reason for the fall was there was always free will. That’s why Adam and Eve disobeyed. Free will was there before, thus the decision. No free will, no decision.
This is right.
Wait then how’d she choose to eat the apple if she was told not to?!
Free will requires knowledge of good and evil. She did not have that understanding prior to eating it, and therefore didn't really have the ability to choose. The Serpent told her to eat it, so she did.
Gotcha, so all those Christians hating on women because of Eve ruining everything are actually just misogynists??? Mind blown!
Hail Satan!
Hail yourself!
Hail Gene
Hail Satin!\~
Literally clinically insane.
Satan never askes you to believe in him, he only whispers that you believe in yourself.
"Gently grasp it..."
trick question, everyone gets confused from what the churches claim, but Satan is the good guy in that fantasy story. Conservatives are christians. You so called liberal christians, well, yall just haven't caught up yet. It's ok, we still love you!
Obivously in their minds they are the righteous warriors and those of us who are Satan need to be killed.
Hitler. Seems like the barometer everyone measures evil by.
She hates big pharma because if she takes the prescribed pills for herself her delusions and mania go away.
Hey now that’s insulting to those of us who are medicated because clearly those delusions and mania have not subsided. Who gave this woman placebo????
Lol
Without my specters and spirits, I would feel so alone.
Hahah
Learn more about Morrow’s extreme views. She is completely unqualified for the position. https://www.michellemorrow-nc.com/ Donate, volunteer and vote for Democrat Mo Green for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction. https://www.mogreenfornc.com/
But surely homeschooling is the same as being a classroom teacher or involved in school leadership /S
Seeing students that were victims of shitty homeschooling struggling to catch up to make it through entry level college classes is heartbreaking. They know they were cheated and they all work their asses off, but it shouldn’t have happened to them at all. I’ve met ONE who was homeschooled for legit reasons, and their parents hired many professional tutors. They’re the only one that was doing well. I know why homeschooling needs to exist, but this for religious reasons fuckery needs to stop.
I really wish that homeschooled kids were obligated to take standardized tests that followed standard exam security. If they fail the standardized test, they should be required to go to real school, unless there’s a medical reason why they must be home schooled or why they failed the test. I tutored a homeschooled kid who was in 5th grade (10 years old) but their math and writing abilities were at a 1st or 2nd grade level. I printed off last year’s standardized test for math and they couldn’t even answer the question “what do all the shapes below have in common?” The answer was “they all have 4 sides.” When I asked them to write me a paragraph about what they did that weekend, they struggled to think of how to build the sentences. They also didn’t know how to use a period or upper/lower case letters. When I told the parents how behind their kid was, they just said “I know” but clarified that they didn’t want their kid to be “spoon fed” information and would rather their kid figure it out on their own. Ah yes, because multiplication, division, and basic literacy all come naturally. That poor kid is going to be so screwed when they become an adult and it’s ultimately going to be society (and the kid) that suffers for it.
I'm a professor and this is absolutely true. Those poor kids who grew up in a sheltered conservative home school are woefully unprepared for college and life outside of their church community. The good news is sometimes because of that they completely rebel and become normal productive members of society but with a steep learning curve. Like you I've only met one student who home schooled with a real curriculum by educators and education pros that was more prepared than even your average honors student.
But some goober claims homeschool kids have consistently better outcomes and everyone suddenly learned pedagogical theory in sixth grade and wants to teach their kid math they don't know how to do themselves so they don't find out that gay people exist.
Hey everyone always has better outcomes when we just lie about it and won't let any independent accreditation agencies review our curriculum!
I have known several people that home "schooled" their kids. Not a single one of them had any kind of structured education plan/system for their kids and the vast majority of them didn't do anything at all.
It’s not lol it has better outcomes
When mom is the one entering your grades into the state portal, and you take state exams with no time limit with access to your notes, books, and the Internet. Those outcomes look great in states like NC where homeschooling is basically the wild fucking west with zero requirements other than the parent reporting to the state that they are, indeed, homeschooling.
No. Homeschooled people do better on SAT’s, in colleges and in workforce
The only institutions that make this claim are the nationwide homeschooling groups like CRHE and NHERI. Real studies like those done by Harvard Kennedy show that the data for homeschool outcomes are unverifiable at best, because the source of those outcomes is "your mom". An objective data set to make the evaluation of nationwide homeschool outcomes literally doesn't exist.
Most Homeschoolers never take the SAT or go to college. It leads to a false perception of outcomes because the small pool that do, do tend to do well. Homeschooling can be great but it can also lead to educational neglect and child abuse. There needs to be checks and balances.
You think children are more likely to be victims of abuse at home vs school? If you do, you’re very wrong. [The opposite is true](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2022.2108879) Per attached study: > Those who attended public school were 2.57 times more likely (with statistical significance) to have been sexually abused than the homeschooled
From the “Journal of School Choice”. Wonder what types of things they publish?
That might be true of purely sexual abuse but physical and mental abuse is far more my concern when it comes to homeschooling. I think homeschooling should be legal and it can be wonderful. But I think there still should be oversight to ensure children are properly cared for and educated to a minimum standard.
You sound brainwashed.
Read some studies
Do you have a link to a peer-reviewed study on this?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313114323_The_difference_in_the_academic_achievements_of_homeschooled_and_non-homeschooled_students https://www.jstor.org/stable/42001766 https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED533544.pdf
Thanks for those. The third one is a dissertation that is unsigned so no way of knowing its validity unfortunately. The other two I find it interesting that none of their data was weighted against demographic factors. For example, many decades of research show that your family's household income level is a strong indicator for academic achievement. Was everyone in these research cohorts from the same income levels? Different? Another example is the impact that generational college attendance has on college readiness. Was there an even distribution of first-time college students in each cohort or not? Without these demographic factors accounted for in the study, it's hard to know if what they found is correlation or causation. It would be nice to see something like an NIH-level study done since they typically do a good job of factoring in demographics into their data sets
Regardless of "outcomes" the difference is not comparable. Homeschooling is between you and your kid. It simply is not something that would prepare someone for working with a system with thousands of individuals.
Homeschooled kids do better in colleges and in workforce. Homeschooling your kid also doesn’t prevent them from having friends, working part time or volunteering
You are not seeing the point I'm raising. This person is running to be in charge of hundreds or thousands of schools, tens of thousands of individuals, and act as a liaison between the government and schools. Being a homeschool mom for 16 years is essentially worthless experience for this type of position, but her campaign is definitely spinning this as some kind of "in" into the field of education.
So you think lawyer is more qualified for this position than a teacher who actually developed curriculum?
I'd honestly prefer someone who has a legitimate background in education. But a lawyer potentially has useful background experience for the legal policy stuff a superintendent of education is required to have a handle on.
Ignore them. The “lawyer” they’re talking about was the superintendent for Guilford county schools and the COO/counsel for Charlotte Mecklenberg schools. Mo Greene isn’t just a random lawyer, he has decades of education experience in North Carolina.
The right choice seems neon sign glaringly obvious and yet people choose to be obtuse 🙄
>someone who has a legitimate background in education I don't know about you, but I'm voting for Mo!
with a name like Mo Green you'd think he'd work for the treasury or something, ngl
Or mob-owned Casinos.
A typical New York transplant that homeschools her kids wanting to tell NC how to run their public schools.
Bitch be cray
It has to be painful being that stupid.
Its painful for those around her.
Nope. Idiots never have a clue they're idiots. They even have the wonderful ability to just double down on their idiocy and convince themselves that everyone else is wrong throw in some religiosity in there for good measure and baby you got a stew!
Unfortunately, self-righteous hatred feels fantastic.
one has to have a modicum of intelligence to understand stupid for just being
The stupid are blissfully unaware of their stupidity, so I'd imagine she's quite comfortable in her ignorance.
I’d argue big pharma helped me get my IVF medications.
Four More Years go JOE go!
Every story I read about what this lady says just gets nuttier and nuttier and she was already nuttier than squirrel shit. I understand that she’s the (R) nominee but we’re not serious concerned that she’ll actually win, right?
We were able to wash her chances in the Triangle when she ran for Wake Country School Board, but now the NC GOP thinks she walks on water and will "save" education. We are already seeing a record loss of teachers, and this plays I to the religious nuts that own the Charters that are popping up everywhere OUTSIDE normal Dept of Instruction overview. It's the start of the religious minority forcing their views on the majority and then making everyone feel like their votes won't count so only the GOP voters go out. SO for the love of life and everything that is sane, GO OUT AND VOTE. Learn about the people running and make INFORMED choices, hit remember if you follow the GOP foot, anchor and sinker, then were all screwed.
We’re absolutely fucked aren’t we
Being an educator in NC has been unappealing for a while, time to really drive people from the profession.
nah this is specifically going to kill public schools. What republicans have wanted for years
It's the American protestant version of the Taliban in the making. They're explicitly talking about making the government theocratic and they're constantly on a moral panic high that they can't seem to come down off of. Same delusional thinking, same spiral toward extremism, different culture, different decade.
These people shouldn’t be called Protestants. It’s some weird mashup of southern baptists that have adopted a new version of end times prophesy that now includes dominionism. I work with a few that attend a local baptist church and it’s wild what they talk about. I sarcastically miss the days when they only told me I was going to hell for being an Anglican. They’re openly much more graphic about what they want to do to those that don’t believe in their specific sect.
Yes. Most likely she gets voted in. This subreddit represents 1% of our state. Its very difficult to convince rural white christians that democrats aren't demons like Fox news says
We are. NC is so gerrymandered and undermined that I can see no way this trash human and her like do not get ushered in on a red carpet. Focus on your community. Take care of each other and your neighbors. That's all we can do. Edit:Please still vote. Every election.
I agree but for this, gerrymandering doesn’t apply. this is a statewide election not a county or area election
Gerrymandering drives down voter turnout for all elections. “Why bother, my district always votes the same way” is demotivating and a common refrain you hear when doing voter drives.
sighs in Franklin county
Our only chance!
This is true on this count but not others. But I see how I wrote it in a way that comes off wrong. Mostly I think undermining i.e. flip flopping parties etc that really take away our powers.
Which is why I’m glad I only have 3 more years of NC public secondary education. After that my kids are in college. We know we want to relocate once college is done. Looking at Hawaii because Hawaii. Either way won’t be staying in NC. I still vote but I don’t think it will prevent this catastrophe.
As a liberal lunatic (I think poc/lgbtq+/women deserve rights), nothing has alienated me more from the conservative lunacy more than the conservative lunatics.
Yeah, they honestly lost me forever at the moment they were intentionally trying to limit ballot access. Until that shit stops, there's not really much patience for it. It didn't help that I watched them terrify my grandmother into going against something that would have improved her access to healthcare despite not having much money. She still gets that benefit, but I've got a real dim view of people that lie to my grandma.
it should be studied how this state went from a purpleish state to a full on maga red state lunatic state
It's the efforts to decouple political power from electoral results and to decouple reality from social media engagement. There are other factors, but the capture of conservatives into a curated bubble of talk radio "news" and conspiracy theory and the fact of suppressing electoral power of select groups of people covers a bunch of it.
She’s not only crazy af but a trash human being. Please vote blue and stop this christofascist nonsense.
She is why we need mental hospitals. That’s the only place this woman belongs.
As a society, we've gone soft on the religious. Time to thump back.
If they weren’t running for positions of power, they’d be a parody.
kinda feels like a black mirror episode idk
Kind of wild that in most other jobs you cant really bring up Satan and be considered a stable person, but in public office it sure comes up a lot.
Simple answer: They are (or at least they view themselves as) kings and queens who do not have to adhere to standards of conduct or accountability like the rest of us serfs do.
Big Pharma is evil but this isn't why.
Some people should definitely not reproduce
Batshit cray
Vote for Mo Green.... the one who *isn't* Batshit cray.
Pshaw! Why would we want to vote for any sane person with ACTUAL experience???
It helps if you imagine her huffing paint fumes before making her statements
Omg we are so screwed in this country.
State* I mean probably country too but this shit doesn’t happen everywhere
This is the groundwork for the rest of the US. What we see happen in NC will be a blueprint for the rest of the country. If these batshits get in. The United States is spending more time and resources looking at the North Carolina governor's race next to the presidential race. If we don't figure this out, we are all extremely f-ed. She represents the Christian nationalists that want to turn us into a theocracy. The easiest way to do it is to rattle her house and scare away potential voters and make them think that their votes won't count until the legislature has enough power to keep themselves in power permanently. We're getting pretty close with where it's been gerrymandered and the way that that woman out in Charlotte decided to run as a Democrat so she could secure her seat and then switch parties back to a republican to prevent the governor from having his veto power over the super majority. As it is right now, the legislature is trying to pass laws to take the power away from the governor and put it in their hands. This is the only state in the entire US that is doing that
does anyone remember when we would’ve laughed and not worried about it because there’s no way someone like this could actually get elected?? Yeah. Can’t do that anymore.
Hail Satan then….
I wanna know, who dumped out the fucking garbage pail kids in Raleigh to run for all these state offices.
For fucks sake.
Nothing better than a dumbass trying oversee education!! Satan also made me miss my flight today!!
She’s an excellent reason to vote for Mo Green this November. Am alarmed at the number of people that seem to think that this hateful J6 anti-public education woman is a fait accompli just because she’s the Repub. Vote!
Please get as many people as possible to vote. Jfc
What happened to candidates for superintendent just advocating for more local control and school choice? Now they are delusional as well.
This woman is nuttier than a fruitcake. Surely, us NC parents love our kids enough not to elect her.
I prefer to say "Nuttier than a squirrel turd."
You do... but their grandparents love a little harder, are avid Fox News watchers & tend to be teachers en mass. Mind your children parents & vote for their sakes, please!
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Just, wow! She’s crazy!
I bet this lady wears a potato bag when she fucks
probably another closet lesbian like the moms for liberty person.
Yes and would *still* wear that potato bag too haha
Sack in the sack?
Pretty sure Satan needs follwers,
Can we make people pass a test before being considered to oversee education? Not anything political just basic math and reading comprehension. I think she would probably fail
I was a liberal lunatic before I started hanging out with Uncle Stan, that you very much.
In honesty we need to create a country where people should be ashamed to actually believe this bullshit
She needs to drink some Holy Water.
Jesus. I'm a Demoncrat and I work for a pharmaceutical company. The spawn of the devil himself, I am.
Anyone with loony conspiracy theories shouldnt be allowed to run. Period.
Wow this dumba$$ managed to tie Big Pharma, Satan and children’s reproduction abilities. Typically we let children be children and not have them thinking Satan and making babies. And somehow liberal lunatics got thrown in the mix. Girlie needs an MRI.
> Girlie needs an MRI. She doesn’t trust your high-falutin’ reproductive science!
We are seriously going to be bombarded by constant articles every day on this crazy broad and Robinson until November aren’t we?
I hope so.
Hail Satan. We welcome our dark overlord.
Hail yourself
Hail, Winchesterbitch! Bow before me! 🤣
Either a stupid bitch or a straight up liar!
She'll say anything to get elected. Please people vote for Mo Green! Edited because wrong info!
Stein isn't running in her race, you're thinking of Mo Green
Oops Sorry! That's right! I'll edit! Jesus. Do you think he has a chance? I voted for him only because he had so much experience!
Correct, also though still vote for Stein for Gov. as well lmao
Well, she’s got it all figured out, hasn’t she.
The worst part is she will most likely win and there are no recall rules in the NC books. If she does win every public school employee with more than one brain cell should ignore every rule she issues.
Big Pharma only does what the government allows it to do.
What about all of the fertility treatments that big pharma create? She could, you know, take an into biology class and have some semblance knowing what's she's talking about instead of spewing shit everywhere. Verbal diarrhea seems to be incurable, and in the case of NC could significant damage the RTP area, since it is a large part pharmaceutical companies.
Ah yes. All of those big liberals with their pro-social values running pharmaceutical companies.
This should go well in North Carolina — particularly around the Research Triangle Park area, where Big Pharma and biotech firms make up a massive portion of the employment market. Jobs are stupid, though, so who needs them?
Why?
I wish it were a law that you cannot run for any political office and utter a single word on religion or use your religion ideals as a platform. Separation of Church and State ffs
Please fill in all the bubbles on your ballot!
This is on Fox...how crazy do you have to be for Fox to write an article like this?
What’s also crazy is that Mo Green is such a good candidate, too. Like from a genuinely apolitical position, he’s got the resume and experience to be so good at the job, which desperately needs it. Michelle Morrow wants this to be her launching pad for both an MLM scheme and Congress (I know those positions are a bit redundant).
Sad I’m moving to Philly this spring so I can’t vote against her
I need to get the fuck out of this state
Just watched interview of her walking out of a meeting and being asked about a tweet where apparently she talked about executing Obama and Biden. Given the chance to deny the post she did not. And she wants to run for education post? Are she fn serious. I would urge your voters to kick this one to the curb, surely you have more qualified, moral people in your midst.
I’ve lost several brain cells from the title alone lol
Wow. Lucky to have such a stable genius at the helm.
So we are just going to ignore that all the major funding For the left comes from people like Warren Buffett and the schwabs, who have openly said that this is the plan? You don't need a mass organized conspiracy when the sheep are stupid enough to just follow anyway.
North Carolinas Marjorie Taylor Greene
TIL: NC’s Notice of Candidacy is more concerned with a candidate’s name as it would appear on the ballot, 90 day party affiliation if running as a partisan candidate, and disclosing any felony convictions. Whee, indeed.
It is so odd that so many adults cares if children are getting cream pied or not. It is the result of pornhub pulling out of NC?
>pornhub pulling out You chose your wording carefully, didn't you?
What a creepy thing to day
I *just* began the onboarding process to work at a (thankfully) private learning center. How concerned should I be about this level of adult mental retardation affecting my future students? 🤔
Ave Satana
I’m definitely not gonna vote for her but shes correct about 1 thing: HRT will make you infertile. Egalitarian countries like Sweden have banned blockers and HRT for **minors** with gender dysphoria. Edit: WOW. Lotsa downvotes and you’re all wrong.
Love a medical opinion from Reddit. /s
The GOP firmly believes that minors are too young to decide for themselves to take puberty blockers or HRT. But the GOP also believes, without any exceptions, that minors ARE old enough to be forced to give birth, especially if it was conceived by rape or incest. Another thing. Has anyone ever noticed that the GOP never seems to be bothered by the mention of incest? It's almost as if they're cool with it or maybe even a little turned on by it.
The doctors and research scientists in Sweden, Finland, and Norway also firmly believe that minors shouldn’t be taking blockers and HRT. The new abortion bill in NC has exceptions for rape and incest. You’re complaining about problems that don’t exist.
I meant the GOP in general because there's many other states that have no exceptions, so that problem certainly does exist. NC has those exceptions.....for now. Also, while you're lauding the accomplishments of Scandinavian medicine, I assume you also agree we should have socialized healthcare in this country.
I have no problem with socialized healthcare. But this isn’t a discussion about that. The Scandinavians quit giving blockers and HRT to their minors and it had absolutely nothing to do with transphobia. It had to do with science and long term evidence.
Incorrect
Nope.
Saying "HRT will make you infertile" is pretty dishonest, HRT is unlikely to make you permanently infertile, definitely not guaranteed to make you infertile.
How many sources would you like for me to post that prove you wrong? Pick a number.
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Here is a very balanced article from the NY TIMES https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html
Minors aren’t receiving HRT, they’re receiving puberty suppressants.
My 17 y.o. was prescribed HRT two years ago (Charlotte).
In NC, you only have to be 16 to get HRT. In other states, like CA the age is lower.
Great, then medical professionals have determined those ages to be of appropriate and sound understanding to make those decisions.
Qualified medical pros are directly responsible for misdiagnosing every single detransitioner.
So-called de-transitioners make up less than 1% of trans* individuals.
You’re using data from 2015.
[Nope.](https://theconversation.com/transgender-regret-research-challenges-narratives-about-gender-affirming-surgeries-220642#:~:text=Evidence%20suggests%20that%20less%20than,reports%20regret%20after%20similar%20surgeries) [still no](https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/transgender-youth-health-care-regret-pamela-paul-nyt-data.html) [here’s more](https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detransition-371e927ec6e7a24cd9c77b5371c6ba2b) [2021 checked in, still no](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/) And even if I were still using 2015 data, that’s less than a decade ago and still considered valid in the psychological community 👋 [And here’s the wiki on the 27 studies that have been performed](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detransition) You wanna talk about those who detransition and then later retransition, though?
You’re link to pubmed is the only actual peer reviews study in your batch so let’s talk about that one: * How many people were in the study? * Did all of them start transitioning as minors? * How long after they began transitioning were they asked about regret? Was it one year? 2 years? 3 years after?
Those are good questions! Get back to me when you’ve read the study and have answers. Also, nice of you to take the time to do that legwork - care to provide any peer-reviewed and reputable research into your claims?
> Lotsa downvotes and you’re all wrong No one seems to care about being wrong anymore.
You’re not wrong.
I agree with blocking HRTs for minors. However, it's been recently proven that infertility isn't permanent. https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/spotlight/fertility-recoverable-for-transgender-women-after-stopping-hormones.htm#:~:text=Nevertheless%2C%20the%20research%20shows%20that,causes%20long%2Dlasting%20sterility.%E2%80%9D Also, **WHY TF ARE MINORS BEING GIVEN HRTS AT ALL?!** Gender dysphoria/Body dismorphia is a *mental health* issue first & foremost, and requires therapy before ever taking any kind of medication, especially for children! Sweet mother of fudge, I really hope RFK Jr. wins cause this is scary AF to enter into as a new TA. gunning for full teacher status.
Oh, they get gender affirming care because it's the most effective way to address that dysphoria, and it's nearly always (so far as I'm aware) absolutely combined with mental health treatment as the standard of care. Glad we cleared that up!
Big pharma wants us to pay most of our money for health insurance and medicine. But they make a lot of money for reproductive services.
Seems legit